Can USB HID remote (eg FLIRC) be used to wake up a device?

Most CE-supported S905X4-K boxes (Homatics Box R 4K, RockTek G3, Nokia 8010) seem to be lacking a IR receiver that allows for wakeup. See a summary here:

So out of the box a wakeup using the remote control is not possible?
I cannot imagine that any streamer box is sold that cannot be woken up using the remote control.

What is the actual situation for the aformentioned devices running Android (A):

(A1) The box can be woken up using the remote, because it actually has an IR receiver and the remote is a IR/BT hybrid remote.

(A2) The box can be “turned on” using the BT remote, but the box is never really turned off. The power-off button just makes the box enter a low-power slow CPU mode.

Finally, if we have the case of (A2) here, would it be possible to retrofit wakeup by adding a FLIRC to the USB2 port and FLIRC would keep to be powered (actually emulating a keyboard, so woudl be wakeup by pressing a key).

The device is never truly turned off since something needs to be power to read the remote. FLIRC is just a stupid way of using USB-HID to read other remotes when you can just by a USB-HID remote.

The only CE way is with bl301 injection on the few devices that support it, try a forum search. Newer Amlogic devices seem to have something equivalent for BT in the bootloader but AFAIK CE doesn’t support that.

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In this thread @freddy says that bl301 injection doesn’t work on S905X4 device:

In newer Android the BT power up does work but as I wrote CE doesn’t support that .

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would any USB HID remote be capable of waking up the box so that it boots into CE?

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None that I’ve tried but do you think the USB ports would be powered? That wouldn’t make much sense.

I don’t know. I think I have seen some BIOS that allows starting the machine when a key is pressed on the keyboard. But I guess that is an entirely different story than a S905X4.

So bottom line would be NO, we cannot wakeup a S905X4 for booting CE using any of these options:

  • IR
  • BT
  • USB HID, incl. FLIRC

If your board supports IR then maybe you could look at this Alternative suspend option for IR wakeup, when bl301 tool not possible

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Sorry, you lost me on this one. I don’t see how this relates to the thread topic. Are you talking about HDMI CEC instead of IR and BT remote?

I just found my old FLIRC and no, it cannot wake up a Kinhank G1, so I guess the same result for other devices based on S905X4(-J/-K).

Yes
you are correct

Off thread topic
My bad