Hi everyone,
I have attached a simple diagram, please follow through. I am very happy with OSMC on my Rpi2. I am able to control it via my TV remote, which first talks to TV over IR and then to Rpi2 via the HDMI CEC interface. I have also customized the Kodi’s keymaps at remote.xml, which allows me to set up dedicated buttons on the TV remote for Kodi. This all works great!
But I want to go one step further. In addition to TV, I also have a surround system and an audio decoder system. Both of these systems have separate IR remote controls. Naturally I do not want to use those remote controls, but instead control both of these systems via raspberry, which in turn is controlled by my TV remote. Thus the ultimate goal is to control everything via the TVs remote.
I have done some research and I guess I would need to buy an IR receiver (for initially recording signals from the remotes of both systems) and an IR emitter (to send/mimic signals to both systems from my raspberry). Then, I would need to hook the IR receiver and emitter to the raspberry pi via GPIO, create some kind of a script, which can be run by OSMC and thus the TV remote.
Given the information above, I would appreciate if you could give me your expert advice by answering the three questions below. I am sure that there are many of you with a similar setup.
- Does the proposed strategy make sense? Is there an easier way?
- Can someone please recommend a solid IR emitter and receiver unit?
- How would you go about initially recording from the remotes of both systems and then emitting those IR signals? Would I have to write a basic Kodi add-on to emit the IR signals?
Thank you!
Regards,
Reinis
