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I have asked this before, but no answer was given, so I dug a little deeper into this and came up with a solution:
You Need FLIRC USB dongle and a PUC / STB-Cable.
1. Choose a device that you own (or at least the remote...) that you will not use with the Beovision/Beosystem that you attached your Amazon FireTV to.
2. Start FLIRC programme and teach the dongle the commands of your remote while on the Amazon FIRE TV setup screen (GO start the process).
3. Choose the PUC on your TV that matches the remote, change the name to Amazon FireTV.
You are done!
Some pics to illustrate the procedure:
As you can see I Chose WD TV live (remote) to control the Amazon FireTV using the FLIRC dongle attached to the USB port of the Amazon FireTV.
Ralf
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In storage: Beolab 5000/Beomaster 5000 (1960s).
I've done this last year for my Openhour Chameleon 4K mediaplayer.
Learning with the "Popcornhour" into the Flirc works flawless.
why, dear kallasr, the roundabout with the WD-device when you have the amazon-PUC with your BV (as you wrote in another thread)? i run the Fire TV with the flirc-dongle and my Beoremote 1. i've described the setup in the german forum last year, ca. september
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amazon, of course. i was close to desperation as long as i headed with the Beoremote directly to the dongle. the moment i attached the PUC-cable to the dongle and headed towards the Avant with the remote it was done in one minute. amazon's homebutton is on the blue button on my remote. good luck
kallasr:Which basic / starting remote setup did you choose in the flirc setup software?
As far as I can remember I chose the Windows Media Center format.
The Chameleon is android based with Kodi installed. Kodi allows you to use extra external remotes, for instance a keyboard (MCE).
In this setup the FLIRC acts as an external keyboard.
So, after learning all the instructions and running Kodi once, the Chameleon can be controlled via the FLIRC and an external ir-eye on the BS3.
BTW. I can't recommend buying a Chameleon 4K. Softwaresupport stopped last year, runs on Android 4.xx and so Netflix for instance isn't even HD.
I use it only for own or downloaded (streaming) content, which handles the Chameleon very well.
Hi Egges,
I am trying to set up the Beoremote One with the Fire TV + Flicr but no luck so far, could you post here the set up you have done step by step; that would be of immense help.
thank you!
Nico
hello back, i´ll try my very best:
connect the dongle with a computer (laptop is very helpful for being close to the TV except your PUC-cable were 20m long) and open the installation programme. do the set-up with your TV, PUC´s name on my Avant is "amazon Fire TV (via IR)". then target with the PUC-cable towards the dongle and with the Beoremote towards the TV (for that purpose i lowered the strength of Beoremote´s IR-signal). now you should be able to do the tour through the installation assistent. very important: don´t go with the Beoremote directly to the dongle, that way wasted half an hour of my lifetime!
good luck
Have a look at this thread also:
http://archivedforum2.beoworld.org/forums/t/15616.aspx
MM
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