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MCE Remote, RPI4, Rasbian Buster, Kodi 18.6 - cant get it to work - Justintoxicated - 2020-04-14
CEC is nice, but my experience has been that it only works about 40% of the time. (Samsung UHDTV), on my old pi3 build. This required me to use the old MCE remote that I have been using on XBMC and then kodi for like 10+ years. It's good to have an alternative remote anyways in case I plug into another system without CEC.
I have found the recent builds don't seem to support the MCE remote despite the wiki claiming it does. The arrow keys are the only thing on the remote that work. I can't even use the ok button or the back button.
I tried downloading the key mapper, and for General-> Navigation -> Select Item I programmed it to use the "OK" button on the MCE remote, it shows a number next to the mapping. However it still does not work when I actually try to use it
I have installed LIRC after some difficulty but that does not seem to work either.
Has MCE remote support been dropped? If not how do I get it to work!?
RE: MCE Remote, RPI4, Rasbian Buster, Kodi 18.6 - cant get it to work - Justintoxicated - 2020-04-15
I have tried the simple method here and it does not work (Even after you get past the install issues).
https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Set_up_an_MCE_remote_control_in_Linux
I have tried this tutorial and irw never registers the keys.
https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/37579/lirc-no-output-from-irw
I found this: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=121650
And I have the MCERemote.zip but It's for a different version of rasbian (Jessie I think is what my retropi was running, and the remote works over there just fine).
RE: MCE Remote, RPI4, Rasbian Buster, Kodi 18.6 - cant get it to work - Justintoxicated - 2020-04-15
Ok so I wasted WAY too long on this, but if anyone finds this post maybe this will be helpful.
reconfigure the /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf
change:
driver = default
device = /dev/lirc0
then
create /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
add the lines
Code:
#Configuration for the Windows Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all) remote:
include "/usr/share/lirc/remotes/mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb"sudo systemctl restart lircd