Yeah, the Harmony I have been using for years is IR only. I use it to control a TV, AV receiver, PS3 (via Bluetooth-IR adapter), DVR, and old DVD player.
#Flirc fire tv harmony full
His channel focuses on automation and voice control, and he wanted to turn his PC into a full fledged Echo Show, and just like on a Fire TV, he wanted to be able to launch apps with his voice. I have a PS4, which the remote does not work with, of course, plus the Fire TV.
#Flirc fire tv harmony windows 10
The first part of this process was simple enough: Alexa is actually an installable app for your Windows 10 PC, and it can respond to the Alexa wake-word. I ordered a Logitech Harmony Companion which is their Hub (bluetooth+IR) and a paired remote.
#Flirc fire tv harmony upgrade
I figured that with the addition of the FireTV it was time to upgrade the remote, add support for Bluetooth devices, and be able to add in the PS4 along with the FireTV. Controlling the FireTV worked flawlessly. Unfortunately, controlling the PS4 is crap.
Technically it works, but functionality within different apps is spotty, at best. Given that the support for the PS4 is limited (which is Sony's fault.not Logitechs.I have nothing against Logitech), it occurred to me that it was easier to return the $130 remote and simply plug a $20 IR dongle into the FireTV and be done with it. I can keep using the same remote I've been using for years and it works perfectly.I don't know if there's a thread about this already, but here's my experience. I have an Amazon Fire TV, bought it about two weeks ago. Have no interest in it's function as a Prime streaming device, bought it as a replacement for my six year old HTPC to run SPMC and for the other bits like YouTube. It's hooked up to a powered 4-port Belkin USB hub so I can have a FLIRC dongle, Xbox 360 wired gamepad, Logitech wireless mouse/keyboard set and external USB2 HDD connected at once. I am happy to report that side loading ScummVM onto it produces workable results.
After the loading bar you get presented with a black screen.It's running the latest firmware so games can be imported to ScummVM from a FAT32 formatted external USB drive, handy because the Fire TV has limited internal space and games like Curse Of Monkey Island are well over 1GB. Pressing F5 on the keyboard in game doesn't do anything.The app appears to underscan so there's a black box around everything which presumably can't be changed.I've been getting round it by pressing escape on the keyboard a few times which gives you the standard load/add game screen which works fine. The Xbox 360 pad does work, but not well.I've been getting round this by using the MENU button on the remote so I can get the load/save menu. Using the analogue stick fully pushed in one direction is jerky and you can't long hold the A button to select things on the COMI piece o' eight verb wheel. But playing point and click stuff with a pad isn't great at the best of times anyway!Īnyway I've only tested with COMI so far, gonna try BASS, LOOM and a few other titles from my collection later today. But the game is fully playable, and minor niggles aside this port works well. At this point with SPMC, Opera, Gmail, GTA Vice City working on my Fire TV it's more than proved it's worth - £79 for a TV centred Android box is good value.
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