Hey folks, so i have a super old USB IR Blaster that I put on my Nvidia Shield TV and I mapped the keys to my Harmony 900 IR-only remote control. I love the remote, and have no interest in using the Shield's remote, nor in getting the Harmony Hub and switching to that crappy one.
Now the issue. Sometimes, i have to press quite hard on buttons in order to get them to register. Sometimes it works fine, but often I've learned i really have to press on the Harmony buttons. Would this be fixed if I added a FLIRC to the shield? Or is this purely an issue with messing with the Harmony response speeds? Other tweaks?
Another issue with the particular IR blaster i'm using, is that the channel numbers do not work at all. I'm guessing this for sure would be resolved via FLIRC?
UPDATE: EVERYTHING SOLVED Amazing, I finally found a post buried on the Geforce forums that enlightened me. For CHANNEL NUMBERS, this was fixed by programming my Harmony to use the TV's remote control numbers (in my case, Panasonic TV). Apparently this works via HDMI-CEC and voila, channel numbers works! This also works with Play, Pause, FFW, RW.
Then, for the IR blaster issue, against the thinking, I actually INCREASED the MS response time in the Harmony software up to 400ms, and voila, it works like a charm. Go figure! Hope this helps save someone else time.
If it is that you have to press hard, it is probably either the button(s) or the batteries (they eat batteries, as you probably know).
If it isn't about how hard you press, but rather how long you press or how often, than it's probably the interval/delay settings on the remote software.
If both of those aren't the issues, than maybe spend money on a new IR.
As for numbers, the device itself determines the buttons generally. Numbers tend not to be programmed into IR codes for AndroidTV boxes.