The best part about FLIRC is that it can be used to mimic a keyboard so every media centre application understands it without any drivers. It's basically a universal IR receiver, so can be used with any remote you choose, old, new or Universal! Just walk through the super simple setup - pairing individual remote buttons with 'Media Centre Buttons' and you're done.
Configure the device on your desktop PC, then simply plug into your Pi for a perfect media centre companion! Amaze your friends and family when the tiny box stuck to the back of your TV controls your entire media collection using an old DVD remote!įLIRC learns from any remote control, not caring about different vendor protocols. Something like the USB IR Toy is programmable, however. It says quite clearly on the adafruit site. The FLIRC USB dongle allows the use of any remote control with your Raspberry Pi. this might even be a flirc competitor (as long as you can reprogramme it) would be wesome to get this for £10 without the remote (, 21:09) doug Wrote: Those arent programmable to work with any remote. Configure the device on your desktop PC, then simply plug into your Pi for a perfect media centre companion.FLIRC learns from any remote control, not caring about different vendor protocols.Just walk through the super simple setup - pairing individual remote buttons with 'Media Centre Buttons' and you're done.The FLIRC USB dongle allows the use of any remote control with your Raspberry Pi.Remote commands are received by whichever application is in focus. Play/Pause is Ctrl-P, you can also change volume (Ctrl-+ or Ctrl- Ctrl-M for Mute) or jump tracks using Ctrl-L for Previous and Ctrl-N for Next. A pretty graphic of a full keyboard appears - you select the key that you want, then press the corresponding button on the remote that you want to use. In the Flirc application, select 'full keyboard' from the 'Controllers' menu item.
The most important button is 'Play', which you will probably want to set-up to send a Ctrl-P key press. The application detects and tells you if the dongle is present or not. You'll obviously need to consider line-of-sight between your listening position and the USB port - a USB hub on your desktop would be one way. The dongle comes with a 'Flirc' application - in Ubuntu, you install this with the usual 'sudo apt-get install flirc' command, or from the Ubuntu software centre. As usual, the UK price is higher, but Maplin's offer them at £24.95. Go to and buy one of the USB infra-red receivers - they are $18.95 in the US. The makers say it works with Macintoshes too, but Apple probably preferred that you used something they made themselves from a solid billet of fake unobtainium TM and charged too much for.
I've also been able to test Flirc on Windows.
This little gadget allows you to use an existing remote to pause playback remotely when using MediaCenter on a Linux box - and you can set-up other functions too, if you want. Bob asked me to provide details of using a Flirc USB infra-red receiver to control MediaCenter under Linux.
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