<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 7:42 AM James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">On 1/15/19 8:02 AM, Greg Oliver wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">I have 2 hubs and 3
remotes in this house. I cannot get the virtual keyboard
method to work on any of them (One, Ultimate One, and Elite).
The phone app works just fine on al hubs. The other two
remotes were actually controlling the Shields through IR still
(before Logi added the BT support for the Shields). Once I
deleted them and added them again, they were BT and the
virtual keyboard was added, and they work exactly like Logi
says they should.</div>
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<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Despite this, when I
add a Windows PC using the method posted in another thread and
assign a remote button, the remote always tells me I need to
pair every time I press a button assigned to the virtual
(Windows PC) keyboard.</div>
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<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">I just got off the
phone with Logi EU and they have never heard of it and say it
will not work unless that Windows PC is paired via BT to a
actual device, otherwise it is useless to have it as a device
in the config. If I do that, it will send the keystrokes to
the paired device. Both hubs and all 3 remotes behave the
exact same way, so I am wondering what is different.</div>
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<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">For those who use this
method - are you pairing that "Windows PC" (renamed to Windows
Keyboard) device to anything?</div>
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<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Logi told me I will
every only get the keyboard from the Harmony App on my phone
and never (currently) make the remote use keys from that
keyboard.</div>
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<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Anyone experiance this
and know where I must have steered clear?<br>
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<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">TiA,</div>
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<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Greg<br>
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<p>Well I have it working so I'll try to help. I have 6 activities.
some are simple like blueray, music on the AVR and SmartTV and AVR
sound. But I have the Shield TV and an Intel NUC running Kodi on
ubuntu. <br>
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<p>On the Ubuntu system I did add the NUC as a Windows PC and paired
the bluetooth. So that went as expected with using the non
bluetooth wireless keyboard and having the Harmony send the
keyboard commands. No surprised.</p>
<p>On the Shield I did this, but it makes no sense. I added a
device to the activity of a new windows PC and changed the name of
the device to windows keyboard. No pairing. Then when setting up
the activity I included the windows keyboard device but nothing
else.</p>
<p>When it came time to pick custom buttons on the activity. I chose
a button and when picking the device I just selected the Windows
Keyboard device then the key to send. i.e. 'p' for both pause and
play. Normally you are picking the device to receive the command
not send the command, and that's what through me.</p>
<p>It works. It may help to set it up after a whiskey or two. :-)<br>
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<p></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">I set it up the exact same way more times than my brain can remember - I have factory reset everything on the 2 hubs and remotes. Still asks my remotes to pair everytime I press a keyboard button. Logi tells me they do not know of the method I am trying and a virtual keyboard is unhard of, but of course it is the first line of support - I had to call EU on my work line today because US was not open yet.</div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p>Jim A</p>
<p>Disclaimer 1: My Harmony Smart Control Hubs and remotes are old
although the software gets update every time you use the phone
app to change a button.P/N 815-000101</p>
<p>Disclaimer 2: bourbon is the best whiskey.</p></div></blockquote><div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">I am not a bourbon drinker usually, but I was on vacation last week and drank a couple of whiskeys and bourbons - the bourbon was better than the whiskey, but the really good stuff is just too expensive for me to get into - I cannot (well, will not) pay $40 a drink for something even though it does taste 10x smoother than the regular stuff :)</div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>