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Bignumbas · 4th Jan, 2016, 12:34 PM

I tried for several days to fix this problem.
Finally came across a posting on Instructables Where a guy was putting a pi into an Altoid tin with Xbian installed for a home media center. (cause you can Smile

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Find it here:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-2-Media-Center-Kodi-on-XBian/step6/Step-6-Optional-Install-and-configure-infrared-rem/
and also
http://www.msldigital.com/pages/support-for-remote

edit the file: /etc/lirc/hardware/lirc_rpi.conf
nano /etc/lirc/hardware/lirc_rpi.conf
Comment out the line: LIRCD_ARGS="-u"

lircd -u, --uinput
Enable automatic generation of Linux input events. lircd will open /dev/input/uinput and inject key events to the Linux kernel. The key code depends on the name that was given a button in the lircd config file, e.g. if the button is named KEY_1, the '1' key code will be generated. You will find a complete list of possible button names in /usr/include/linux/input.h.

From the explanation it seems to me that when you press a key it injects another keypress via the kernel. Kinda like a feedback loop?

I had tried everything before this delays, ir-keytables etc, etc.
The mystifying thing was that the remote worked in every other raspberry linux I have.

Cheers

Hope this helps.

jvig · 1st Feb, 2016, 07:36 AM

(11th Aug, 2015 11:58 PM)Colin Burton Wrote: Did you ever find an answer to this? I just setup my remote and encountered the same issue.

I had the same problem and solved it!!

When you are recording keys or you are using a template for your remote, all remote buttons are assigned to a default name listed here:

Terminal

$ irrecord --list-namespace

These names after your remote.conf file is created have to be CHANGED in order to use them properly with KODI.
For example in this xbox.conf file I created for an XBOX remote, I replaced "KEY_" with "xbox_":

Code:

# Please make this file available to others

# by sending it to <lirc@bartelmus.de>

#

# this config file was automatically generated

# using lirc-0.9.1-git(default) on Sun Jan 31 11:27:02 2016

#

# contributed by 

#

# brand:                       /home/xbian/xboxtest2.conf

# model no. of remote control: 

# devices being controlled by this remote:

#

begin remote

  name  XBOX

  bits           11

  flags SPACE_ENC|CONST_LENGTH

  eps            30

  aeps          100

  one           223  7469

  zero          223  5012

  ptrail        220

  gap          123513

  toggle_bit_mask 0x200

      begin codes

          xbox_UP                   0x568

          xbox_DOWN                 0x56A

          xbox_LEFT                 0x571

          xbox_RIGHT                0x561

          xbox_ENTER                0x569

          xbox_CONTEXT_MENU         0x567

          xbox_BACK                 0x557

          xbox_EXIT                 0x570

          xbox_VOLUMEUP             0x556

          xbox_VOLUMEDOWN           0x555

          xbox_PAGEUP               0x572

          xbox_PAGEDOWN             0x577

          xbox_TEXT                 0x550

          xbox_FORWARD              0x552

          xbox_REWIND               0x551

          xbox_PLAY                 0x559

          xbox_INFO                 0x55A

          xbox_STOP                 0x562

      end codes

end remote

Then in your KODI userdata folder create a Lircmap.xml file to map these buttons. Something like that:

Code:

<lircmap>

<remote device="XBOX">

    <Up>xbox_UP</Up>

    <Down>xbox_DOWN</Down>

    <Left>xbox_LEFT</Left>

    <Right>xbox_RIGHT</Right>

    <Select>xbox_ENTER</Select>

    <Back>xbox_BACK</Back>

    <menu>xbox_CONTEXT_MENU</menu>

    <Stop>xbox_STOP</Stop>

    <Play>xbox_PLAY</Play>

    <Pause>xbox_PAUSE</Pause>

    <Blue>xbox_BLUE</Blue>

    <Red>xbox_RED</Red>

    <reverse>xbox_REWIND</reverse>

    <forward>xbox_FORWARD</forward>

    <subtitle>xbox_TEXT</subtitle>

    <title>xbox_INFO</title>

    <info>xbox_GUIDE</info>    

    <mute>xbox_MUTE</mute>

    <power>xbox_POWER</power>

    <myvideo>xbox_FAV</myvideo>

    <volumeplus>xbox_VOLUMEUP</volumeplus>

    <volumeminus>xbox_VOLUMEDOWN</volumeminus>

</remote>

</lircmap>

Please note that these names like "volumeminus" are predifined by Kodi. You can find a list here: XBMC/Lircmap

Finally, in your userdata/keymaps folder create a keymap.xml file to map those buttons to real KODI actions. Your keymap.xml should look something like this:

Code:

<keymap>

  <fullscreenvideo>

    <remote>

    <subtitle>ActivateWindow(subtitlesearch)</subtitle>

        <Select>PlayPause</Select>

    <reverse>SubtitleDelayMinus</reverse>

    <forward>SubtitleDelayPlus</forward>

    </remote>

  </fullscreenvideo>

  <global>

    <remote>

    <Up>Up</Up>

    <Down>Down</Down>

    <Left>Left</Left>

    <Right>Right</Right>

    <Select>Select</Select>

    <Back>Back</Back>

    <menu>contextmenu</menu>

    <Stop>Stop</Stop>

    <Play>Play</Play>

    <Pause>Pause</Pause>

    <Blue>FullScreen</Blue>

    <Red>ActivateWindow(weather)</Red>

    <title>Info</title>

    <info>Info</info>    

    <mute>Mute</mute>

    <power>noop</power>

    <myvideo>ActivateWindow(favourites)</myvideo>

    <skipminus>noop</skipminus>

    <volumeplus>VolumeUp</volumeplus>

    <volumeminus>VolumeDown</volumeminus>

    </remote>

  </global>

  <slideshow>

    <remote>

    <forward>ZoomIn</forward>

        <reverse>ZoomOut</reverse>

    </remote>

  </slideshow>

  <weather>

    <remote>

    <Red>Back</Red>

    </remote>

  </weather>

</keymap>

More info about the above file can be found here: KODI/keymaps[/term][/quote]

p.s. You don't need to create an advancedsettings.xml file, but if you create it anyway, it will function properly regarding repeat and delay times Wink

Skywatch · 2nd Feb, 2016, 07:00 PM

@jvig

Nice info, well explained, thanks - maybe you could add it to the wiki page of xbian for all to find.

Skywatch.

Pow_2k · 3rd Feb, 2016, 08:28 AM

@jvig, perfect timing! Just today I sat down to try and figure out why the remote I was working with had doubled up button presses. This is my first time working with an IR receiver connected to the RPi GPIO. Your solution worked for me as well! I opted to go with "kodi_" instead of "xbox_" in the names as I think this is more working around a problem with the software (Kodi/Xbian/lirc, not sure where) than the remote itself. Good find! From previous attempts I still have the lirc_rpi.conf file edited to comment out "LIRCD_ARGS="-u"" and I haven't yet uncommented that to see if it breaks anything with your fix.

I'll note that I didn't need to do anything with keymap.xml. It seems all the mapping is picked up from remote.xml in /usr/local/share/kodi/system/keymaps. So just created the lircd.conf file with unique key names, then set up the Lircmap.xml file.

Thanks for the detail on your discovery!