“Ordered the FLIRC dongle. It arrived in good time. Setting it up was simple. I used the TV remote (Samsung). Everything worked OK for a while, then things fell apart. I pushed the TV remote and the Raspberry Pi jumped ahead two: as if I had pushed the button twice. Very annoying. I tried reprogramming it, no change. I read the help pages, seems others are having the similar problems.
My work around, I reprogrammed the unit with an Apple remote. All works fine now. I don't know where the problem was, me, my remote, raspberrry pi, or aliens looking my window :)!
In the end it works fine, but I spent an extra day to get there....”
“I use my Pi as a media centre (XBMC) and am completely in love. The only thing that annoyed me was having to use the remote on my phone to control it (especially difficult if my phone rang,because I'd have to use another device to pause the film) so I had a quick look for the best method to hook my Pi up to my Harmony remote. The FLIRC dongle came highly recommended, and even though there were some minor teething issues these had been encountered and solved by other users so I had the FLIRC running perfectly within half an hour.
I am now very happy indeed- I still use my phone as a remote occasionally to queue up multiple episodes, but other than that my Harmony and FLIRC do all the work.”
“It's the perfect companion for a universal remote control, especially the ones like my logitech harmony one. Everything in xbmc is now under control, and usable by everyone.”
