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I am running XBMCbuntu Gotham 13.2 with a Harmony 650 remote setup with MCE keyboard commands and a genuine RC6 receiver.
To get this working initially I had to remove LIRC.
There is no other customisation and ir-keytable is not running.
This works fine.

If I try to go to KODI 14.0 I end up by getting multiple key repeats from the remote.

This happens if I do an apt-get install and upgrade on the same OS build or if I run Kodibuntu Live (after removing LIRC to get the remote working at all)
If I install ir-keytable on the Kodi-Live build I can see the spurious key presses.

Before I give up and run 13.2 forever can anyone point me at a possible solution ?

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Let me answer my own question in case someone else has the same issue:

It in not possible to control Kodi 14.0 with a remote programmed as an MCE Keyboard with no other customisation, ( keymaps Lirc) as was possible in XBMC 13.2.

I have used this post as a starting point :

114124 (thread)

The Harmony 650 is programmed as a "Microsoft Media Centre PC".

RC6 Keytable looks like this :


Many keys in that keytable are not used in my minimal implementation.

There is no other mapping in Kodi and LIRC has been removed.

The KEY_STOP was changed to KEY_X as that is broken in 14.0 and has been reported by many users in this forum.

That works for me at present.
I have installed 14.0 on my XBMCbuntu build but now this is running I will migrate to KODIbuntu using the Backup Addon to preserve settings.

Hi Alec,

I managed to change my rc_keymap but can't seem to:
1. see any changes in XBMC
2. load the rc table at startup

Can you give me any pointers?

Hi.
I used this thread for reference :
114124 (thread)

Copy the base keymap to /etc/rc_keymaps and edit the copy.

Then reload the keytable :

ir-keytable -c -w /etc/rc_keymaps/rc6_mce

and test it:

ir-keytable -t

Then you need to reload it when you boot the system. See the thread I quoted above to set that up.

Thanks, I did just that, but the commands don't seem to reach Kodi

Do you see the key presses in ir-keytable -t ?
Have you removed lirc ?

Use the kodi log to see key presses in kodi .

rgds