<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Tim Draper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:veehexx@zoho.com" target="_blank">veehexx@zoho.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">i've been running the smart control for a few years and it's been reasonably good. biggest issue was IR was a touch intermittent with it turned the NUC on - sometimes it wouldnt.<br>
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I moved over to BT a month ago and has overall been a better experience. Far more reliable, but it IS different than IR in how it works with the nuc.<br>
first up, bluetooth will only wake the machine up if it's in S3 (and probably S4, but i dont use that). IR would wake the nuc up from power-off state.<br>
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because of that, you'll need to run a script to set USB devices to allow wakeup.<br>
also, for all my current/historic kit, you'll ned to redetect your outputs. Turns out my issues are from an Onkyo AVR of a certain era where it wont reliably allow the pc to detect monitor/edid, so the PC either needs a restart, or xrandr script to force redetection (which i've never got it 100%).<br>
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aside from the S3 resume issues that seem to be my kit than anything else bluetooth has been an equivelent functionality experience to IR, if a bit easier as i didnt need to mess around with lirc configs.<br>
It definately feels more responsive, and it has been more reliable and i'd definately recommend it over IR.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Interesting thread here...I've always used my HDHomerun that had a built in IR receiver that can send the commands over UDP to a LIRC client on the frontend (listening over the network, obviously). </div><div><br></div><div>I'll have to look into the Bluetooth option when it dies. :)</div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Brent Haag<br>E: <a href="mailto:brenthaag@gmail.com" target="_blank">brenthaag@gmail.com</a></div>
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