2013-06-30, 16:42
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:
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.
(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
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
currer@HAL:~/ps3pair$ sudo apt-get install bluez
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 gir1.2-caribou-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0
gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 gir1.2-gck-1 gir1.2-gcr-3
gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 gir1.2-gkbd-3.0 gir1.2-ibus-1.0 gir1.2-json-1.0
gir1.2-mutter-3.0 gir1.2-polkit-1.0 gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12
gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2 gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 gir1.2-xkl-1.0 gjs
libcaribou-common libcaribou0 libgjs0c libmozjs185-1.0 libmutter0a
mutter-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
bluez-hcidump
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bluez
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 988 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,432 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main bluez i386 4.101-0ubuntu8b1 [988 kB]
Fetched 988 kB in 1s (921 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package bluez.
(Reading database ... 368003 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bluez (from .../bluez_4.101-0ubuntu8b1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up bluez (4.101-0ubuntu8b1) ...
bluetooth start/running, process 23774
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
currer@HAL:~/ps3pair$ [/code]
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.