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Consider these tips for getting a clean learned ir signal: This is where integrating the Fire TV using the Flirc USB comes into play. When setting up the Flirc adapter you are able to configure the USB dongle and learn. What edmund and Daniel were trying to explain, is that you can avoid this learning process altogether. How the FLIRC device works is that it emulates a USB keyboard. When it gets an IR signal it recognizes, it basically 'types' the corresponding key into the device that it is plugged into. You also get the benefit of Alexa voice control which does all the things you. With this Amazon television, you get all that streaming power of the stick built into the TV set, with no need for a separate streaming device. Thanks so much Tony, who was also thanked with a plethora of free goodies for my sincere gratitude in helping the community. With Fire TV, you can access thousands of channels, apps and content possibilities. TonySKI got a flirc for his firetv and spent the time to put together an awesome tutorial to help others. a TV remote control) it then sends a keypress (as if it were a USB keyboard and you were pressing a key).

When Flirc receives Infrared (IR) signals from a remote control (e.g.

You teach it what key it sends when it sees a specific IR signal. Amazon FireTV and Flirc Amazon left out IR on their fire TV, but Flirc came to the rescue. Flirc allows you to control a computer or media device with a remote control. So for your MX-850, you can create a FireTV device and assign any IR codeset (one that doesn't match other devices in your system) to this FireTV device. Both edmund and Daniel have made suggestions for a good device. On my mx-780 and mx-990 remotes, I assign the Aux 001 from the URC database as the codeset for FireTV.

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Then I switch the Flirc to the full keyboard interface and assign the remaining keys (play as P, pause as spacebar, etc). I start by assigning the navigation arrows, select, return, home, and info buttons with the Flirc's FireTV interface.

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Once you have an IR code set assigned to the FireTV device in your remote, then you use the Flirc application to program each of the IR keys to the appropriate keyboard command for FireTV. Once the Harmony is set up, I move on to the Flirc. I use the media keys for transport control but I also uses an extended list of keyboard commands for other functions within applications like Kodi (subtitle, audio track, audio delay, etc.).