Hello,
I was thinking of getting a Fire TV remote (model CV98LM) to pair with RPi via bluetooth. This model:
Does anybody use this remote? It works okay, has good range and response ?
Thanks for any imput
Hello,
I was thinking of getting a Fire TV remote (model CV98LM) to pair with RPi via bluetooth. This model:
Does anybody use this remote? It works okay, has good range and response ?
Thanks for any imput
I use this remote with a Raspberry Pi2 and an Intel compute stick. Its a great remote but has a coupe of nuances.
1 - After a period of time (hours, not minutes... ) OR after a reboot, it will stop responding and you must hit the back button once or twice to re-connect. I have not looked into this too much but its really not a bog deal... Seems like the remote goes to sleep or something and hitting back wakes it up. ONLY the back button will wake it up.
2 - You may need to modify your key-maps. LibreElec has a good map and I think it worked out of the box, but I cannot recall... On Linux you have to make a complete re-map and the menu button has a strange key-map...
Either way its a great remote once you get it paired and trusted.
This is an old thread but surely interesting for readers... I`ve just paired an old CV98LM with my Libreelec Kodi installation (generic x64, Intel) and it works great! I mapped the keys to my liking with a keyboard.xml file in /storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps
If you want to do it yourself, here are the keys the remote generates in Kodi:
OK: 61541
up: 61568
down: 61569
left: 61570
right:61571
back: 61616
home: 61622
menu: 61952
rev: 61636
play/pause: ?
fw: 61637
all these buttons support longpress, so you can make use of it
The commands could see something like this:
<key id="61637">volumeup</key>
<key id="61636">volumedown</key>
<key id="61952">ActivateWindow(TVGuide)</key>
<key id="61622" mod="longpress">Fullscreen</key>
I attached an example .xml file which uses the home button is long pressed to toggle bw gui und fullscreen video and volume controls...