Plug and Play remotes

Afternoon guys.

First post here. Successfully managed to install LibreELEC onto my s905x box last night. Installed it to nand and wow, that performance is unreal. Coming from a sluggish Fire TV stick, the difference is night and day.

The only thing I do miss is a decent remote. The one bundled with the box is IR and needs to be pointed directly at the box for it to work - as my TV is on the wall and the box needs to live behind it, I need a decent remote that will work straight away without too much (preferably none) fiddling around.

I'm looking for something minimal, although not adverse to a keyboard but I'm not particularly keen on the look of the Rii i8 for example. The i7 is a far better looking remote but can't find anything on here to suggest it would just work.

Given my box also doesn't have bluetooth, would buying a bluetooth remote (fire one) and a bluetooth adapter for the box work or does it need to be RF?

Any help and suggestions greatly appreciated.

Quote from powerarmour

I use an Amazon Fire TV stick (Bluetooth) remote with my RPi3 which is pretty minimalist and works fine (you will need to add the context menu button via the Keymap editor addon however)

But other than that, seeing as you'll need to add a dongle anyway (whether Bluetooth or IR), just get a MCE remote and it'll pretty much work out of the box.

List of MCE remote controls - Official Kodi Wiki

Thanks for the response. Got to admit, the MCE ones all look a bit too busy for my liking, feel like there would be a lot of unused buttons.

If bluetooth ones work as well, that opens up a few more possibilities.