[fr1day]

Excellent walkthrough, thank you very much, it worked perfectly for me.

The only difficulty I had was getting my mce IR remote to work afterwards and couldn't find the right answer with a search so leaving this here to help others.

lirc is not installed by default with kodi on ubuntu server 18.04, so install it with the following.

Code:

sudo apt-get install lirc lirc-compat-remotes

Once lirc is installed, each keypress on the remote caused multiple repeated actions in kodi. For example, pressing KEY_DOWN once on the remote in the main menu would quickly scroll through every item until it reached the bottom. To fix this, the lircd-uinput service needs to be stopped and disabled to prevent it from starting again at boot.

Code:

sudo systemctl stop lircd-uinput.service
sudo systemctl disable lircd-uinput.service

The official kodi wiki also recommends disabling lircd.socket as kodi should create its own socket, but this wasn't a problem for me so I left it.

When trying to get this to work, I found that installing ir-keytable seemed to cause a conflict and I could only get things working correctly with it removed.