This will be excellent for me to use in school when I want to show a video using the Pi. You can use the XBMC app on your smartphone, provided your media centre and smartphone are networked.īut, if you don’t have your media centre or phone on a suitable network, or you don’t want to use your smartphone, FLIRC enables you to use any infra-red household remote to control your media centre. Not massively important, but quite useful. This one doesn’t, which means you can plug it in after the Pi is booted if you forgot to do it before. Some USB devices draw enough current to reboot the Pi when they are plugged in. There may be a tweakable setting somewhere, but I didn’t see it. For example, for volume, you have to press once for each increment, whereas normally you’d hold the button down.
The only thing that’s a bit different is that the buttons don’t seem to ‘auto repeat’ if you hold them down. “Oh no, what if it doesn’t work? I won’t be able to shut down the Pi?” But it did work – perfectly – the first time. Navigation was flawless.įirst time I did the setup, I was concerned because I’d forgotten to plug in a wifi dongle to the Pi. I used it with OpenELEC on my HD TV/monitor (not the little one in the photo) to watch Big Buck Bunny – I always use that as a test because it’s about the only free full HD movie around. Do that for each of the buttons you want to be able to program, and you’re done. This process may sound a bit scary, but the whole installation took less than ten minutes and worked perfectly.įor the XBMC setup, all you do is click on the on-screen “button” you want to “record” and then press the button you want to use for that function on your controller.
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