[DarrenHill]

I think you should go and read our piracy policy (wiki) and also our VPN policy (wiki) before going any further...

[hjgtiger]

Those sources of media violate our piracy policy (wiki) and access to them is against our forum rules (wiki) and unsupported here.

Sorry, won't happen again

[hjgtiger]

I've got 18.04 and it handles my remotes perfectly with LIRC.  In fact, I have an option of 3 different remotes that I can pick up and use to control Kodi. Finding in dmesg where your ir receiver is identified would be a good starting point.

Look for something similar to

xml:
[43197.321984] usb 6-2: Product: eHome Infrared Transceiver

[43197.321989] usb 6-2: Manufacturer: Formosa21 [43197.321993] usb 6-2: SerialNumber: FM000623

[43197.334953] Registered IR keymap rc-rc6-mce [43197.335183] input: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (147a:e016) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb6/6-2/6-2:1.0/rc/rc1/input13

[43197.335462] rc1: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (147a:e016) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb6/6-2/6-2:1.0/rc/rc1

[43197.335906] input: MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (mceusb) as /devices/virtual/input/input14

[43197.336550] rc rc1: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (mceusb) registered at minor = 0

[43197.509161] mceusb 6-2:1.0: Registered Formosa21 eHome Infrared Transceiver with mce emulator interface version 1

[43197.509175] mceusb 6-2:1.0: 2 tx ports (0x0 cabled) and 2 rx sensors (0x0 active)

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Reboot PC /unplug - plug in receiver and then either go through dmesg by hand dmesg|less or try and find it with grep   dmesg|grep -C5 "IR"

Thanks, I'll have a have a play tomorrow.  I did look at a log but did not see anything referring to infrared rx where the USB port info appeared. I will look closer tomorrow.

[hjgtiger]

I've got 18.04 and it handles my remotes perfectly with LIRC.  In fact, I have an option of 3 different remotes that I can pick up and use to control Kodi. Finding in dmesg where your ir receiver is identified would be a good starting point.

Look for something similar to

xml:
[43197.321984] usb 6-2: Product: eHome Infrared Transceiver

[43197.321989] usb 6-2: Manufacturer: Formosa21 [43197.321993] usb 6-2: SerialNumber: FM000623

[43197.334953] Registered IR keymap rc-rc6-mce [43197.335183] input: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (147a:e016) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb6/6-2/6-2:1.0/rc/rc1/input13

[43197.335462] rc1: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (147a:e016) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb6/6-2/6-2:1.0/rc/rc1

[43197.335906] input: MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (mceusb) as /devices/virtual/input/input14

[43197.336550] rc rc1: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (mceusb) registered at minor = 0

[43197.509161] mceusb 6-2:1.0: Registered Formosa21 eHome Infrared Transceiver with mce emulator interface version 1

[43197.509175] mceusb 6-2:1.0: 2 tx ports (0x0 cabled) and 2 rx sensors (0x0 active)

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Reboot PC /unplug - plug in receiver and then either go through dmesg by hand dmesg|less or try and find it with grep   dmesg|grep -C5 "IR"

Thanks, I'll have a have a play tomorrow.  I did look at a log but did not see anything referring to infrared rx where the USB port info appeared. I will look closer tomorrow. 

 Ubuntu can 'see' the IR Rx - Extract:-

50.973070] usb 8-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[   50.973073] usb 8-1: Product: USB IR Combo Device
[   50.973075] usb 8-1: Manufacturer: TopSeed Tech Corp.

Running a video directly within Ubuntu many of the remote buttons work correctly, but not the Playback ones: FF, F Back, Jump Fwd, Jump back, Pause & Exit .
Fewer buttons work in Kodi yet all the buttons worked spot on from Libreelec.

[black_eagle]

LibreElec uses its own version of LIRC I think plus it may well use ir-keytable.  Can you post the whole bit of the log where it detects the IR device, so I can see which inputs get assigned to it and which driver it's using ?

[hjgtiger]

LibreElec uses its own version of LIRC I think plus it may well use ir-keytable.  Can you post the whole bit of the log where it detects the IR device, so I can see which inputs get assigned to it and which driver it's using ?

This seems to be the part pertaining to the IR Rx

[  193.796073] usb 7-1: new low-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
[  193.998098] usb 7-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0766, idProduct=0204
[  193.998102] usb 7-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[  193.998104] usb 7-1: Product: USB IR Combo Device
[  193.998106] usb 7-1: Manufacturer: TopSeed Tech Corp.
[  194.139249] hidraw: raw HID events driver © Jiri Kosina
[  194.217557] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[  194.217560] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[  194.241516] input: TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device  as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb7/7-1/7-1:1.0/0003:0766:0204.0001/input/input18
[  194.300621] topseed 0003:0766:0204.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device ] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input0
[  194.301318] input: TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device  as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb7/7-1/7-1:1.1/0003:0766:0204.0002/input/input19
[  194.360533] topseed 0003:0766:0204.0002: input,hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device ] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input1
[  221.365856] perf: interrupt took too long (3991 > 3983), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000  --- This was the last line of log.

[hjgtiger]

LibreElec uses its own version of LIRC I think plus it may well use ir-keytable.  Can you post the whole bit of the log where it detects the IR device, so I can see which inputs get assigned to it and which driver it's using ?

This seems to be the part pertaining to the IR Rx

[  193.796073] usb 7-1: new low-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
[  193.998098] usb 7-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0766, idProduct=0204
[  193.998102] usb 7-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[  193.998104] usb 7-1: Product: USB IR Combo Device
[  193.998106] usb 7-1: Manufacturer: TopSeed Tech Corp.
[  194.139249] hidraw: raw HID events driver © Jiri Kosina
[  194.217557] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[  194.217560] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[  194.241516] input: TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device  as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb7/7-1/7-1:1.0/0003:0766:0204.0001/input/input18
[  194.300621] topseed 0003:0766:0204.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device ] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input0
[  194.301318] input: TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device  as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb7/7-1/7-1:1.1/0003:0766:0204.0002/input/input19
[  194.360533] topseed 0003:0766:0204.0002: input,hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device ] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input1
[  221.365856] perf: interrupt took too long (3991 > 3983), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000  --- This was the last line of log. 

Still fiddling. Now I've tried Linux Mint 19 as the OS, but still getting same result. Also I perpetually get an error  '/sys/class/rc/  cannot find directory or file' error when I try to run ir-keytable (to see if Mint sees my ir Rx . I can install ir-keytable ok.