I'm looking more into this now. I decided to try out Flirc, and honestly, I haven't had much luck with it. I use it with Plex, which is probably my first problem. Plex doesn't have a profile built into Flirc like Kodi does, which means you have to first look up the Plex keyboard commands, and then use the keyboard option in Flirc to map the buttons to the keyboard. For example, Play maps to 'P', Stop maps to 'X', etc. This would be acceptable, but the problem is that I have to mash the buttons multiple times for them to even work.
Thinking about it... maybe the issue is the position of the IR receiver on the Flirc. At this point, I have it plugged into a top USB port, so it's clearly visible. However, if the receiver is at the top of the device, it may have a hard time receiving signals. I'm using it with an
Inteset INT-422, which I bought for its Xbox One built-in control capability. The Xbox One control works great, but as mentioned, I've had nothing but trouble with Flirc.
In what may seem like a bout of pure lunacy, I've actually been looking at the
Harmony Elite remote. The price makes me shy away from it, but what I want is a remote that is
NOT IR and has proper play, pause, stop, previous, next, arrow, OK and back buttons. Honestly, I love my Gyration remotes, which I've been using for years, but they're
notorious for just randomly dying. Although, oddly enough, I've actually use of the exact same buttons on both of my Gyration remotes at the exact same time, but the remote actually reports that it's sending the command. :hmm: