drewskie, have you personally tried IP control? where did you get your info?

RTI's forum. I haven't tried it. Too busy right now to play (even though I can obsessively check these stupid forums....)!

How are you controlling the Fire? I thought you can only control it with the supplied bluetooth remote (no IR or IP control)?

No IR. Don't know about IP. But you can buy a USB dongle for IR control.

I've used this.

[Link: amazon.com]

I used the FLIRC USB dongle to control a Fire TV for my in laws. I was very disappointed with the results. I tried multiple code sets, and still found it to be unacceptable for one of my clients. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldn't.

Unacceptable how?

Did you try using Panasonic codes? I find they work VERY well with the FLIRC. RC5 and Sony codes worked rather poorly (slow, poor repeat rate, kept sensing multiple commands when only a single was sent). Didn't try NEC.

Unacceptable in that sometimes it works and sometimes it's the same as throwing coins in a fountain in a 1980's shopping mall hoping some magical power would get a girl to eagerly swallow your load.

But no, I did not try using any panasonic codes. I'd be open to trying them if you cAn tell me more specificly what codes work well

Despite claims that it'll work with pretty much anything, the FLIRC seems to have highly erratic response to different code formats, and this totally affects how it controls the attached device - everything from properly sensing single taps or held commands, how quickly/often commands repeat when held, how frequently you can send commands, and so forth.

Most devices handle Sony codes well since they're so common and basic, and that was what I first used with the FLIRC - and it was absolutely horrible. Way worse than the buggy MCE IR receivers I'd been using.

I saw some comments that Panasonic worked well with the FLIRC - so I tried them, and the difference was night and day. It now works just as well as I'd expect an attached keyboard to work.

I mapped it using a Panasonic DVD-R codeset. URC DVD codeset #289 in specific, but it should work the same no matter what Panasonic codes you feed it... so long as they're in Panasonic format.

There might be other code formats that work as well, but once you've found one there's really no reason to keep looking. Just create a device with those codes, rename any random function to what you want it to be, and teach those to the FLIRC.