Did you try having the Harmony remote learn the IR power command from the Fire remote? Maybe learning directly from the Cube’s IR blasters is giving it trouble. CEC should also be working to wakeup from shutdown and suspend, so that turning the television on itself would trigger a wakeup.
In CEC enable IR debug
CoreELEC:~ # echo 1 > /sys/class/remote0/amremote/debug_enable
Then press the power button on the harmony remote to see if the Cube recognizes the IR input. Press the button, check dmesg
CoreELEC:~ # dmesg
you’ll see something like this [17685.207099] meson-ir fe084040.meson-remote: invalid custom:0xef10fe01
Above it’s identifying the received code correctly as 0xef10fe01.
Thanks. I somehow got it to work and now have an activity on Harmony that wakes it up, but, unlike the original Fire Tv Remote that, with the same button is able to both wake up Coreelec and shut it down, the command I managed to teach Harmony only wakes it up. What would you say is the best option for shut down? Maybe in the Power Saving options set the Shutdown Function Timer to 15 minutes and let it shut down on its own?
The Fire remote is issuing two commands, a BT shutdown command (ignored when cube is powered off), and the IR poweron command (ignored by CE). The harmony remote is only issuing the IR power on command.
Add this remote2.conf, it’s only to make the IR poweron command (0xef10fb04) trigger shutdown in CE. It will be active after a CE reboot.
Place it in /storage/.config/remote2.conf Leave the other remote.conf file as is. remote2.conf (1.5 KB)
Dear, I was able to install CoreELEC on the Cube 3 perfectly.
I have a question: the Fire Cube remote is paired correctly, but I’m unable to turn the Cube on using the remote, I can only turn it off. What could be the issue?
you’re just now wondering about that when it was released > 4 years ago?
it comes down to being a Streaming device
A) most streaming services do not exceed 50Mbps bitrate and streaming focused engineering math says 100Mbps NIC is perfectly capable for Prime Video (and Netflix, and Disney+)
B) why spend more on a device you practically break even on building when all your revenue is in advertisements
C) USB 3.0 is tied to A+B, it’s simply not needed in a Streaming device.
I don’t know that it’s even primarily about money, USB3 and Gbit Ethernet consume more power. The Cube is an always on device, keeping power consumption low and temperature down is more important to Amazon than the >1% of users (I don’t think this is an exaggeration) that would benefit from USB3 and Gbit. By themselves these aren’t that much more, but you shave off where you can.
The Cube includes other components like a light sensor, who’s only purpose is to adjust the brightness of the LED bar depending on the room conditions. An IR receiver that is only used for IR learning which will never be used by most. A large aluminum block for the heatsink that is a bit overkill by streaming device standards. Despite Amazon’s reputation, their upper range devices (Cubes & Echos) are not skimping on hardware costs.
Hi, I have the same setup, but just noticed that under audio settings when playing the stream its defaulted to -60db and when moved up to -30 then I can hear it. Am I missing a default setting for this somewhere?
is it possible to send multiple commands on ON/OFF on the remote.. I have a projector that requires 2x off commands to turn off. or in general can i send off multiple commands, like power on, input select using the firecube remote?
