I have

• Mi Box 3 (AndroidTV)
• Harmony Smart Control (hub & remote)
• Android App

For the last 2 months (on and off) I've been trying to setup text/keyboard entry to work with Mi Box through a mapping on the remote. I am looking for personal (online) help from anyone who is willing to spend the time to get it working with me.

I have an activity configured. I've enabled "text entry" for that activity. I've paired the Harmony Keyboard to the device. Through the phone app, under Activities, I see the keyboard tab.

The first problem is that going into that tab always brings up the pairing process on the phone app, even though the device sees the last paired keyboard just fine. After going through the pairing (again), I can use that keyboard tab to enter text keypresses to the device... that works (besides the constant pairing).

Now, I want to map one of the keypresses to a button on the remote.

The first problem is that I was not able to find a way to do that... at all. Doing my research, some recommended to add a "MS MCE Keyboard" to the activity. With that added (and paired), I can now remap the remote buttons to a keypress... but it doesn't work.

50% of the times, my remote just loses other key mappings (in particular the directional pad). The other 50% of the times, just nothing happens when pressing a keypress-mapped remote button.

Please help