I recently upgraded from Gotham to Kodi. My VRC-1100 remote isn't working like it should. Specifically, the stop, pause, play, seek forward and seek backward buttons aren't working. They cause no action at all in Kodi during a video playback. The fast forward and reverse buttons work though.
Remote is a VRC-1100 Vista MCE Remote Control
Kodi 14.0-BETA4 Git:968c624 (Compiled: Nov 25 2014)
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (kernel: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic)
x86_64
Installed via PPA
Log File
For my test after turning on debugging, I restarted Kodi, selected a TV episode, pressed pause, stop, play, seek forward, seek back, fast forward and rewind. I stopped the show via the menu after hitting the OK button on my remote, then uploaded the log.
If there's any other info needed, just let me know!
did a
tail -f kodi.log while debugging was on to see what happens when the various non-working buttons are doing during video playback. They're not registering at all in the log.
I can see that the OK button on the remote does this:
Code:
09:44:12 T:140089652312000 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x24, sym: 0x000d, unicode: 0x000d, modifier: 0x0
09:44:12 T:140089652312000 DEBUG: OnKey: return (0xf00d) pressed, action is OSD
09:44:12 T:140089652312000 DEBUG: ------ Window Init (VideoOSD.xml) ------
Rewind does this:
Code:
09:44:59 T:140089652312000 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x25, sym: 0x0132, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x40
09:44:59 T:140089652312000 DEBUG: OnKey: ctrl-leftctrl (0x1f0d0) pressed, action is
09:44:59 T:140089652312000 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x32, sym: 0x0130, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x41
09:44:59 T:140089652312000 DEBUG: OnKey: ctrl-shift-leftshift (0x3f0d2) pressed, action is
09:44:59 T:140089652312000 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x38, sym: 0x0062, unicode: 0x0002, modifier: 0x41
09:44:59 T:140089652312000 DEBUG: OnKey: ctrl-shift-b (0x3f042) pressed, action is Rewind
Seek back/forward, play, stop and pause don't register in the log. I know enough about Linux to be dangerous (to myself). I'll keep looking. I noticed something in the log I posted about it failing to connect to LIRC.
I had this problem and it was Ubuntu 'grabbing' the keypresses. Memphiz suggested the solution that worked for me, see here:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=208864
Under: Preferences / Keyboard / Shortcuts / Sound and Media there was a setting to tell Ubuntu what to do with Play / Pause / Previous / Next keypresses. I set these to "disabled" and then Kodi responded to the VRC-1100.
If you configured your green "Start" key or your IE key -- those will still be broken. The green start key was made functional (for me) by adding this line to /home/htpcuser/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/keyboard.xml:
<return mod="alt">XBMC.ActivateWindow(Home)</return> <!--VRC-1100 Green Start Key Support-->
The IE key especially seems beyond help, I asked about it here:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=208896
but there weren't many suggestions.
That did the trick, thanks!