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SMK-Link universal remote, no joy, need some pointers. - testingwithfire - 2013-06-30 Hi, (Linux) XBMC and Bluetooth newb here. I purchased the SMK-Link Bluetooth universal remote on the basis of this wiki article. I installed XBMC from the Unity software center a couple of Ubuntu versions ago. I appear to be running the Frodo build. I'm running Ubuntu 13.04. Initially, I managed to get the remote connected in Unity. I had to use the blueman UI to get the connection to persist. However, even the Unity terminal wouldn't accept input from the remote. When I logged into XBMC, hidd --show did not show the device and basic remote keys did not work. I modified keyboard.xml to the best of my ability as described in the Wiki linked above. So... I just tried following Kitlaan's tutorial and sudo apt-get update did not download the index file for his PPA. So when I installed bluez it went ahead and installed the default 4.101 bluez from the main ubuntu repository: Code: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/kitlaan/ppa/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found I can post my .xbmc/userdata/keyboard.xml if that would help. At this point I don't really know what to do. Thanks for any pointers. RE: SMK-Link universal remote, no joy, need some pointers. - testingwithfire - 2013-06-30 I wound up removing the remote altogether through the blueman UI and I ran Kitlaan's pairing script. I've also replaced the default input.conf with the input.conf in the Wiki. Here are the results: device is connected but not paired. Terminal still will not accept keyboard input. Code: currer@HAL:~/ps3pair$ sudo python ps3_pair.py RE: SMK-Link universal remote, no joy, need some pointers. - aperfectme - 2013-07-06 I made a guide to set my Bluetooth remote ( a PS3 BD remote) on a ubuntu based linux. check it out, maybe can work with your setup. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=166676 ps: I had some problems on lubuntu 13.04 to get the kittlaan's patch to be installed with the tip from my tutorial didn't work, I needed to go to software preferences/ubuntu software/ and unchecked everything then install the patch, afterwards you can check everything again, sorry for not being so clear, I'm not using linux anymore. RE: SMK-Link universal remote, no joy, need some pointers. - peqoud - 2014-12-28 To have a solution for this, even though the thread is old The Default Bluez does not support the PS3 SMK Link. It is not recognized as keyboard. You have to use a special build from a PPA (kitlaan seems to be off?). But I found a different PPA which provides an adapted bluez; https://launchpad.net/~alxeg-mobile/+archive/ubuntu/bluez After installing this, the remote is a keyboard and you can map the keys via input.conf. |