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TwistedNy · (This post was last modified: 2013-06-19, 14:02 by Kib.)

Hello,
I have an Arctic MC001 and have OPENELEC 3.0.5 installed on it. I use it mainly for plugins. Sometimes the plugins cause openelec to freeze. When this happens I am unable to turn off the unit using the remote. I need to do a hard shut down by pressing the power button on the actual unit. I was wondering if there is a setting or a fix that will prevent the remote from not working when it freezes. I have used other htpc that had windows and linux installed and I was always able to turn off the unit with the remote no matter what happened. Any help would be greatly appreciated. By the way the remote im using is a XBOX 360 DVD remote.

**teeedubb** · 2013-06-19, 01:28

I have a button on my remote that executes a script to kill xbmc for situations like this. It uses irexec so it doesn't matter if xbmc is unresponsive and in OE xbmc restarts automatically when its closed.

TwistedNy · 2013-06-19, 01:30

How would i go about doing that?

**kreeturez** · 2013-06-19, 01:32

+1; do share :-)
OE is very stable in regular local-content playback but plugins sometimes do cause freezes for me as well!

**teeedubb** · 2013-06-19, 01:36

I'll post my files when I get home but from memory j created a udev rule to launch irexec. In the the irexec config file you map which button you want to use and what you want run on that key press eg killall -9 xbmc.bin
Similar to this, apart from using a different way of launching irexec (autostart.sh will be removed in the future)

http://openelec.tv/forum/64-installation...t-openelec

TwistedNy · 2013-06-19, 01:43

I do not have ubuntu installed on my htpc it just openelec. Would it still work?

**teeedubb** · 2013-06-19, 01:49

Yeah definitely works with OE - I use it.

TwistedNy · 2013-06-19, 01:57

thanks teeedubb. i will be waiting for your post.

**teeedubb** · (This post was last modified: 2013-06-19, 21:33 by teeedubb.)

First log in to you openelec machine using ssh.

http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Ssh_commands

Create a irexec config:

nano /storage/.config/.lircrc

Paste in

Code:
begin

        button = KEY_BRL_DOT1

        prog = irexec

        config = /bin/killall -9 xbmc.bin &

end

Crtl + x to exit. Use the command irw to see what is being pressed and replace button field.

Create a udev rule to start irexec:

nano /storage/.config/udev.rules.d/infrared.rules

Code:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="rc", RUN+="/usr/bin/irexec -d /storage/.config/.lircrc"

I find irexec crashes sometimes so I restart it on suspend. A resume hook to restart irexec:

nano /storage/.xbmc/addons/_pm-suspend/sleep.d/irexec.power

Code:
[ "$1" = "resume" ] && sleep 2 && /usr/bin/irexec -d /storage/.config/.lircrc

nano /storage/.xbmc/addons/_pm-suspend/sleep.d/kill-irexec.power

Code:
[ "$1" = "suspend" ] && killall -q irexec

You'll need to create some of the directories using mkdir. Reboot and that should do it.

TwistedNy · (This post was last modified: 2013-06-20, 03:34 by TwistedNy.)

Thank you I will try this tonight. Just one question what button is button = KEY_BRL_DOT1?

Never mind missed the part where you said to use the irw command.

TwistedNy · 2013-06-20, 03:55

teeedubb thank you man. I just tried the button with out openelec freezing to see if I did it right and it worked. I am going to try and freeze it now to see it in action when i need it. Your the man bro!!

I wanted to ask you one more question. I dont have a volume up or down button on my remote. Now that I know the irw command I want to use other buttons i do not use on the remote for the volume button. What file do i have to look for to do that? Thanks again

**teeedubb** · 2013-06-20, 04:40

Glad you got it working. To map keys for volume up/down you need a lircmap.xml to translate lirc (irw) key presses to xbnc buttons.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Use...ircmap.xml

Then you need a remote.xml to translate the xbmc buttons into xbmc commands

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Keymap

Its kinda daunting at first but once you get your head around it its really powerful - eg I have a button to launch xbmc subtitles add on, start music party mode, start the music lyrics add on, bring up various PVR windows etc

TwistedNy · 2013-06-20, 06:18

I Think I get the lircmap but I am lost when it comes to the remote.xml.

The buttons I want to use for volume outputs this in irw

192 0 KEY_CHANNELUP devinput - Want to use for volume up
193 0 KEY_CHANNELDOWN devinput - Want to use for volume down

I made a Lircmap.xml that looks like this.

<lircmap>
<remote device="devinput">
<VolumeUp>KEY_CHANNELUP</VolumeUp>
<VolumeDown>KEY_CHANNELDOWN</VolumeDown>
</remote>
</lircmap>

Not sure if that right but then I get lost with the keymap. That wiki page is a little confusing when you don't know what your doing. lol

**teeedubb** · (This post was last modified: 2013-06-20, 09:12 by teeedubb.)

That looks right. Remote.xml will be something like

<remote>
<global>
<VolumeUp>VolumeUp</VolumeUp>
</global>
</remote>

protocol77 · 2013-12-23, 05:05

i cannot do the second step with the infrared rules it tells me the file does not exist and cannot save nano