2020-03-19, 02:14
I've been using Kodi with Linux Mint 17 for a few years and it worked just fine. Mint 17 is no longer supported so I upgraded to Mint 19.3 and the remote doesn't work correctly. I asked for help on the important thread at the top of the forum and got no response. At the risk of violating board customs, I'm starting a new thread to hopefully increase visibility. The original post is: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid2930460
Since then I have tried any number of things. The only way I can get irw to register anything is to use the method described here https://twosortoftechguys.wordpress.com/...ntu-18-04/ to use an old version of lirc. But just because irw works doesn't mean the remote does: playpause and stop are non-functional. (Incidentally, in Mint 17 I set up lirc as a generic MCE remote and it worked out of the box. In Mint 19 the only way to get it to work with irw was to set it up as a Linux device event, but even then some important buttons refused to work.)
I used timeshift to restore my system to a time prior to installing any of these tools. (Using the old version of lirc made my uneasy, but at this point I'm willing to settle for whatever works. Since it didn't I restored the previous system.)
My remote is found here: http://lirc-remotes.sourceforge.net/remotes-table.html
and a picture is here https://sf.net/p/lirc-remotes/code/ci/ma...remote.jpg
Not expensive, but it always worked. The lirc configuration guide seemed to be yielding some results, but it seems to have all been illusory. For some reason Mint 19.3 does not like to acknowledge the remote as a remote. It will never show as /dev/lirc0 and once you get the event device (which resisted me and it wasn't until method 3 or 4 that I finally got it) ir-keytable still refuses to run.
I have wasted hours on this. If anybody has any suggestions or needs some output to help diagnose please let me know. It might take a couple of days to get it but I would love the help.
Thanks.
Since then I have tried any number of things. The only way I can get irw to register anything is to use the method described here https://twosortoftechguys.wordpress.com/...ntu-18-04/ to use an old version of lirc. But just because irw works doesn't mean the remote does: playpause and stop are non-functional. (Incidentally, in Mint 17 I set up lirc as a generic MCE remote and it worked out of the box. In Mint 19 the only way to get it to work with irw was to set it up as a Linux device event, but even then some important buttons refused to work.)
I used timeshift to restore my system to a time prior to installing any of these tools. (Using the old version of lirc made my uneasy, but at this point I'm willing to settle for whatever works. Since it didn't I restored the previous system.)
My remote is found here: http://lirc-remotes.sourceforge.net/remotes-table.html
and a picture is here https://sf.net/p/lirc-remotes/code/ci/ma...remote.jpg
Not expensive, but it always worked. The lirc configuration guide seemed to be yielding some results, but it seems to have all been illusory. For some reason Mint 19.3 does not like to acknowledge the remote as a remote. It will never show as /dev/lirc0 and once you get the event device (which resisted me and it wasn't until method 3 or 4 that I finally got it) ir-keytable still refuses to run.
I have wasted hours on this. If anybody has any suggestions or needs some output to help diagnose please let me know. It might take a couple of days to get it but I would love the help.
Thanks.