[mythtv-users] MyHarmony & FE - alternatives to IR?

Tim Draper veehexx at zoho.com
Fri Nov 24 15:01:57 UTC 2017




 ---- On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 15:40:20 +0100 David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote ---- 
 > On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 08:59:15AM +0100, Tim Draper wrote: 
 > > Is there a way to use the myharmony system with a frontend without using IR? 
 > > while myharmony does (apparently) have bluetooth, I've been un-sucessful getting it working with my main FE 
 > >  
 > > basically i have IR on my NUC (DN2820FYKH) but it doesn't always turn on - possibly the dog got in the way at the wrong moment, or the NUC doesn't see it so things can get out of sync which whats powered on or off. It's very rare the TV or AVR doesnt turn on and 9/10 seems to be the NUC with the issue. 
 > >  
 > > Myharmony software doesn't seem to be aware of the NUC2820 bluetooth and i cant find much info on getting them paired. 
 > >  
 > > how are you folks connecting to FE's? 
 >  
 > Do you mean with a Harmony hub or with a Harmony remote with 
 > bluettoth? 
 >  
 > If the former, I have one and it works great.  The trick is you have 
 > to configure your MythTV PC as a Windows PC in order to get a decent 
 > offering of keys to map to remote buttons.  If you configure it as a 
 > generic bluetooth device, you get a pitiful offering of keys. 
 >  
 > If you mean with a Harmony remote that does bluetooth directly, I'm 
 > not sure how that works.  Look to see if it too offer a choice of a 
 > Windows PC. 
 >  
 > David 
 > --  
 > David Engel 
 > david at istwok.net 


have you had any issues with the harmony hub & linux bluetooth?
while i'm still diagnosing, after a few hours my mythfe will go semi-unresponsive. SSH will die after providing a password and any existing ssh sessions will freeze.
dmesg gets flooded every 5secs with something along the lines of 'driver cannot read capacity' relating to the bluetooth keyboard battery.
locally restarting services via either 'service' or 'systemctl' results in either command just freezing up and not responding to ctrl+c, or ever appearing to finish. tried a reboot and it soft-hung as it went through it's sequence. At this point bluetooth/hid messages were appearing so i disconnected the harmony hub and the reboot request continued as if everything ok.

I'm hoping the system freezes up again tonight to test disconnecting the harmony hub.

if you dont get it, what bluetooth package do you use? i'm currently using the 'blueberry' package which a quick google says it's Mint's default manager. maybe i'll try blueman or bluez or whatever else is out there.



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