#FLIRC SET UP CHOICES PRO#
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#FLIRC SET UP CHOICES TV#

'Into the Spider-Verse' reported almost 10000 as source, but never exceeded around 1000.

Most movies report a 1000 nit source as peak nits and I rarely see any higher than 400.

#FLIRC SET UP CHOICES TV#

The only sources that exceeds my TV's peak nits are animation movies like 'Into the Spider-Verse' and such and not regular movies and TV series. Even without enabling the TV's own HDR Tone Mapping. It is damn bright in HDR10 and Dolby Vision. I tried experimenting with it and when the nits is exceeded, it dims the highlighted parts of the picture and makes them a lot dimmer than my TV outputs even with 'HDR Tone Mapping' disabled on the TV. I'll see if I can pull up my Harmony manager tonight and figure out what device I had the Shield configured as.Okay, so I have figured out that the 'peak brightness' setting in madVR's pixel tone mapping menu means that madVR wont do any tone mapping before the source exceeds the nits chosen. The only thing I wasn't able to program was 'power on' for the Shield as it doesn't truly power off, so whenever I hit the Harmony button to turn everything on, it turns on the receiver and the TV, and then I hit an arrow button to wake the Shield.

#FLIRC SET UP CHOICES CODE#

Once you have the remote set up, you can run through a code learning step in Flirc to associate up/down/left/right/etc with the correct actions in the Flirc tool. I'd have to look at my setup to see what I did, but I think I picked something like 'Fire TV' as the device type in the Harmony manager, and then used a similar profile in the Flirc. You buy it, program it in your PC, then plug it into the USB port on the Shield.įor the Harmony and Flirc combo, you choose what to program into both. It does not have an IR receiver, as far as I'm aware. Just trying to understand what I'm getting myself into before pulling the trigger on the purchase(s). If not, how simple is adding a Flirc? Does that program into the Harmony as a Shield or a Flirc?

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I'm seeing conflicting reports on whether the Shield Pro has a built-in IR receiver on the console or not. Without upgrading my remote, that's not much help. I understand that the Shield native remote is Bluetooth. I would like to have the Shield up and running in an integrated fashion on the day it arrives, and want to make sure that I'm getting things right. I have a Logitech Harmony 650 remote, which is IR only. I'm going to bite the bullet and go for the Nvidia Shield TV Pro. I haven't used it but it seems like a viable option. Using a keyboard and mouse just isn’t ideal in most scenarios, but the Raspberry Pi doesn’t come with a remote like a traditional TV box so what can you use. If you have modern TV and receiver connected to your Shield, I would bet you can get by with just the Shield remote most of the time. One of the first things you’ll need when you set up a Raspberry Pi media centre is a remote control. Once that is done I expect I will be able to use the Shield remote much more easily by using CEC to simply turn on/off the TV and Receiver as needed. Eventually I plan to get a new TV, and new receiver. I like its built in keyboard and it works as an airmouse which is kind of cool but not super useful. Am I understanding you correctly that Id need to set up my second Flirc using another profile (not the Panasonic) Im looking to use my Harmony remote to control two separate HTPCs, each with its own Flirc. Everything else is done on the Rii remote. Currently in my Harmony configuration, my Flirc is using the Panasonic TC-P65VT30 profile. Most of the time, I tell the Harmony I want to 'Watch Shield' and it turns on the TV and Receiver and sets them to the right inputs and I can use it to adjust the volume if I want. Neither work well with CEC so I need the more function-rich Harmony to make them work well. I didn't bother to get it working because my TV is positively ancient in terms of home theater devices (Vizio VP505 XVT Plasma from 2010/2011 I think) and my receiver is well into middle age (Onkyo TX-NR616 from 2013). the Shield remote has an IR blaster in it and you can tell the shield that you want to use its remote to run the TV or receiver volume using the shield remote. I *also* have a Harmony One remote that I use to run my TV and receiver. Like all infrared (IR) devices, Flirc works best when its placed in the line of site of the remote control. It works very well because it has an integrated keyboard. Although Flircs range depends on the strength of the remote control you are using, it will work up to 20 feet away with most remotes. I have a Shield TV Pro (2019) and I got this remote to work with it (via USB 2.4ghz dongle it came with).

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