[mythtv-users] Experience with FLIRC USB Fire TV Edition?

[Will Dormann]

Hi folks,

In my quest to de-clutter my TV area, one annoyance that I have with my 
current setup is that I have a Harmony remote to do just about 
everything except for controlling my new frontend, which is a Fire TV 
Stick, which has no IR receiver.

In the process of wondering if I could roll my own IR receiver setup for 
it, I noticed that this is a thing:
<https://www.amazon.com/FLIRC-USB-Fire-TV-Edition/dp/B0BN39CVFD?th=1>

My understanding is that this device presents itself to your device as a 
keyboard/HID device, and it also has an app to configure what buttons 
you want to be pressed when you press which button on your remote.

Does anybody have any experience with using this device with a Fire TV 
stick?  Presumably this thing needs line-of-sight visibility to where 
you're sitting if you want any hope of success in using it?

Similarly, I'm curious about how you configure a Harmony remote to work 
with this FLIRC device?  Does the device have some preset IR 
configurations that it uses, and you just pick whatever one(s) are 
supported by the device in the Harmony setup app?


Thanks!
-WD