Advanced mce remote mapper windows 10 software#

Further, it requires you’ve already purchased an IR dongle of some sort (which can run you anywhere from $10-20).įLIRC, on the other hand, circumvents the entire problem in a rather novel way. It’s not a light task, however, and certainly not a task for beginners.

Advanced mce remote mapper windows 10 software#

You see there is a fundamental problem when it comes to linking your typical universal or TV remote to a media center system like a Raspberry Pi running Kodi/XBMC, an Amazon Fire TV, a computer running Plex or Windows Media Center, or the like: these devices are either optimized for their own special remote (such as the bluetooth remote that comes with the Amazon Fire TV) or they are optimized for keymaps that map onto a keyboard (like Kodi/XBMC and Windows Media Center).ĭon’t get us wrong, it’s more than possible to dig into the guts of many media center software packages (like Kodi/XBMC) and remap the keys.

The Flirc unit is far more clever than a simple storage unit though and works as an absolutely ingenious solution to the problem of linking IR-based remotes to media center software. At first glance it would be remarkably easy to confuse the Flirc unit with an actual thumb drive as the clear case, visible circuit board, and the IR receiver points (that look much like LED indicator lights) all strongly echo the design of thumb drive storage.

Flirc ($20) is a tiny USB dongle about half the size of a traditional thumb drive.