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<div class="gmail_quote">On 14 December 2017 at 09:33, David Engel<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:david@istwok.net" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">david@istwok.net</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class="">
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<span class="">On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:01:42PM +0000, Jim Abernathy wrote:<br class="">
> I have 2 Harmony Smart control remotes and I love them. For controlling standard stuff it works great. I even have one mythtv frontend controlled by it. That system has a Microsoft MCE 1039 IR remote and I added the Mythtv FE as a Microsoft Media PC.
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> So now to the problem. My newest FE uses an old Vista MCE remote model VRC-1100. Using the wiki on mythtv on the VRC-1100, I got my FE working fine with the Microsoft Vista remote. Now I want the Harmony Smart Control remote to work with it. But not sure
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</span>Chuck your IR remote and receiver and go get a ~$15 (or less) USB<br class="">
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<div class="">Ditto Bluetooth is miles better then IR with the Harmony setup.</div>
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That sound like an improvement. However, what about the BT on the FE? My frontend for this computer is an Intel NUC Core i-3 and has Wifi/BT built in. Could that be setup to talk to Harmony and mythtv-frontend?<br class="">
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Okay, I had some time this morning to play with this. I started by adding my mythtv in as a Other Computer (instead of Windows or Mac) and got the bluetooth paired between the Harmony Smart control and the Mythtv built in BT. However when I tried to use it
I had not remote buttons that worked. So I tried to edit the remote buttons and the only only commands I could assign to any button was UP, Down, Right, or Left. So I have not OK, Pause, Play, etc.</div>
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So here’s what I found with more playing. I deleted the Other Computer and Setup a Windows Computer in the Harmony Smart Control as a new device (even though the PC is mythbuntu 16.04). Then I paired the BT function (the Ubuntu BT manager GUI worked as expected).
The last part is to customize the remote buttons functions. I had to change a lot of them like stop, exit, menu, info, pause, play, etc. Now it works just fine and better than any IR remote I’ve gotten to work on Mythtv before.</div>
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