[giannakp]

I had install Pinnacle PCTV Pro Remote Control (Serial Port) with lirc and it was working correctly with XBMC since Ubuntu 10.04.
Yesterday after updating to 11.10, only Up,Down,Left,Right and Enter Keys works with XBMC, all other are "dead".
I check my remote with "irw" and all keys works great and responding correct with the utility. I didn't change something to XBMC.

So if remote control is set-up correct and it was working correct since Ubuntu 11.04 what else can I try ?

Thanks.

[gobbledigook]

what version of XBMC? dharma or pre-eden?

sounds like the way IR is handled in Ubuntu has changed between 10.04 and 11.04... search for keyboard.xml in the wiki and you will have to write a custom config

[giannakp]

Dharma and this is my keymap (remote.xml) : https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...remote.xml

I have copy this file to ~/.xbmc/userdata/keymaps

This setup was working since 11.04, now XBMC only at "Left","Right","Up","Down" and "Enter" keys respond.

I try something like this :
~/.xbmc/userdata/keymaps$ irw
0000000000fe2d2f 00 KEY_POWER PinnacleSysPCTVRemote
0000000000feaf16 00 KEY_UNDO PinnacleSysPCTVRemote

So i add to remote.xml the following lines :
<remote>
<power>KEY_POWER</power>
<back>KEY_UNDO</back>
</remote>

But nothing happens.....

Any suggestions ?

[ricostuart]

my MCE remote doesnt work at all either. irw detects every button press correctly, but xbmc will not detect any button press on either as it being the shell or as a loaded program on the main desktop.

[giannakp]

Solved

I don't know why but xbmc ignores lircmap.xml on user home folder at ~/.xbmc/userdata/keymaps.

It looks the setup from /usr/share/xbmc/system

So I symlink as follow :

PHP Code:

keymaps.xml -> /usr/share/xbmc/system/keymaps/remote.xml
lircmap.xml -> /usr/share/xbmc/system/Lircmap.xml 


And i edit lircmap.xml (as root user) at section PinnacleSysPCTVRemote :

PHP Code:

<remote device="PinnacleSysPCTVRemote">
                <play>KEY_PLAY</play>
                <pause>KEY_PAUSE</pause>
                <stop>KEY_STOP</stop>
                <forward>KEY_FASTFORWARD</forward>
                <reverse>KEY_REWIND</reverse>
                <left>Vol-Rew</left>
                <right>Vol+FF</right>
                <up>Chan+Play</up>
                <down>Chan-Stop</down>
                <pageplus>KEY_CHANNELUP</pageplus>
                <pageminus>KEY_CHANNELDOWN</pageminus>
                <select>middle</select>
                <back>KEY_UNDO</back>
                <menu>KEY_MENU</menu>
                <title>KEY_L</title>
                <info>KEY_INFO</info>
                <skipplus>KEY_NEXT</skipplus>
                <display>Fullscreen</display>
                <record>KEY_RECORD</record>
                <volumeplus>KEY_VOLUMEUP</volumeplus>
                <volumeminus>KEY_VOLUMEDOWN</volumeminus>
                <mute>KEY_MUTE</mute>
                <power>KEY_POWER</power>
                <one>KEY_1</one>                
                <two>KEY_2</two>
                <three>KEY_3</three>
                <four>KEY_4</four>
                <five>KEY_5</five>
                <six>KEY_6</six>
                <seven>KEY_7</seven>
                <eight>KEY_8</eight>
                <nine>KEY_9</nine>
                <zero>KEY_0</zero>
        </remote> 


For some reason codes of my remote on lirc or xbmc were changed.
For example was "1" and no "KEY_1", "undo" and no "KEY_UNDO" etc.

[boosted]

Ubuntu have moved to lirc 0.9.0. The old version caused problems with the in-kernel lirc drivers. Now it uses just the kernel drivers.