Or maybe the question should be what remote commands does the Mibox not support....
(FWIW, I don't want to spend more than €30 on another remote)
Or maybe the question should be what remote commands does the Mibox not support....
(FWIW, I don't want to spend more than €30 on another remote)
I like the mibox remote, simple and gets the job done. The only thing I dislike about it is how damn easy it is to lose lol
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015O5UM6M/
This device does it all. Every face button you never knew you didn't need. Almost complete keyboard on back, extremely reliable for no-look typing. Very accurate air mouse.
However, it's USB wireless, so CEC TV On won't work once the Mi Box is asleep.
But hey, it's <$20. Just get it.
Sure you can get a Harmony remote and program it as a Mi Box3 - but guess what - you get the same set of commands as the original Mi Box included remote, so you are wasting your money.
I've had little luck with the Mibox remotes and cec. I have 5 Miboxes, cec doesn't turn any of my tvs on or off. And in my bedroom where the Mibox is in a closet, it always disconnects and is very frustrating. In my livingroom I use a Harmony home control and it works great with my setup. Not sure what I'm going to use in my bedroom.
Harmony remotes work well with it
Can the MiBox control the TV volume and not the MiBox Volume? For example like the shield TV does. Looking to get another android TV box for the bedroom but dont need another shield. B ut at the same time I dont want to spend $$ on another remote when for $$ more I can just get the shield and have an extra controller.
I struggled with this because I was having problems with CEC turning the TV back off, plus I wanted to be able to type in numbers for my live channels, so I invested in a FLIRC. It simplified everything, I took an old cable box remote that I had laying around (Unopened so it was pristine), programmed it to control my TV functions, then mapped the mibox keys to it, and then added Kodi and Keyboard commands on it, and now I have one remote that controls the TV, mibox (which replaced my cable box) and it works for 99% of my needs.
I still have a separate remote for my fireplace and LED backlighting, and a remote for my soundbar but I rarely have a need to adjust any of those....and if I choose to integrate them later I could always upgrade to a Harmony and use that along with the FLIRC.
If you have a harmony (or a bluetooth remote, perhaps), the Nexus Player profile supports play/pause as well. FF/RW too I believe, but I'm not positive on that because I never use them.
Harmony line of "cheap" remotes (still $35-50 on sale) has additional menu button, pg up/down (Vue channel surfing), and a handful of other additional commands. Some commands I could find what they are for and so Logitech still lists them as "unknown".
The sideclick is where its at. You can program any of the buttons to do anything you want from a normal remote. https://www.sideclickremotes.com/collections/mibox-accessories/products/sideclick-universal-remote-control-attachment-for-mibox-streaming-device
Unless you want to control multiple devices, the remote does everything I can think of. I have a Sony TV with AndroidTV and a MiBox, and the MiBox remote has all of the AndroidTV functions of the Sony remote, except a Netflix button. My Sony remotes