[beeswax]

Thanks Hias for your help, but it really doesn't seem to work that way.  I did already try some Lircmap.xml tricks earlier but I've tried again just now in as simple a way as I can.  Forgetting about long-press, lets just say I want the Record button to perform a different action to default.  Eventually I want it to bring up the Series Timer dialogue but to keep things simple for testing, lets just say I want to remap it to perform the same action as the "Info" button.

So as I supposedly can't map anything to a LIRC input, I setup a Lircmap.xml:

php:
<lircmap>

  <remote device="devinput">

    <star>KEY_RECORD</star>

  </remote>

</lircmap>

and then create a very simple Kodi keymap:

php:
<keymap>



    <global>

        <keyboard>

            <star>Info</star>

        </keyboard>

    </global>



</keymap>

After rebooting, this seems to do absolutely nothing. Kodi debug log when 'Record' button is pressed:

php:
2019-04-10 15:49:31.039 T:140364027524864   DEBUG: LIRC: - NEW a7 0 KEY_RECORD devinput (KEY_RECORD)

2019-04-10 15:49:31.061 T:140364170612864   DEBUG: HandleKey: text (0xe8) pressed, action is Record

I really do appreciate any help on this, I'm just curious if anyone thinks these changes to how remote input is handled are actually an improvement on the old method?  From my experience so far, its a lot more complicated and a lot more limiting