On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 2:40 PM Tim Hamilton via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
Hi Brian,
I use a combination of a HP USB(1) and a Logitech universal remote to control my Kodi instance, which runs on top of Ubuntu Mate 18.10.
This works well but took a quite a lot of fiddling around with config files, choosing a suitable remote to emulate, customising the buttons and ensuring USB ports remained powered on in hibernate so key presses wake the box.
I've also heard good things about Flirc(2) when combined with a universal remote. From reports Flirc is much easier to set up initially and is essentially plug and play, though I've not tested it myself.
One other thing to note if you don't have a remote (though it sounds like you do) is Logitech remotes require Windows to run their (terrible) proprietary software, which can be done in a VM but not using Wine.
I can confirm Flirc works great. I use it, plugged into a Vero 4K, running OSMC. However it'd be essentially the same on whatever platform you're running (this is essentially debian). I also use a Harmony remote, and can also confirm the horrible-ness of their UI. It does also work on MacOS, so 'requires windows' isn't quite correct. https://osmc.tv/vero/ Cheers, Brett