[sceva]

I have been using WMC for years and recently moved to Kodi/NextPVR on a Windows 10 machine.  I have a VRC-1100 remote that worked perfectly on WMC.  It works with Kodi except the Play, Pause, and Stop buttons do nothing.  I purchased a Rii mini i25 remote and it does the same thing.

What I have tried:
Switching Skins - tried the Estuary and Amber.
NextPVR program does not recognize the buttons either.
Keymapper Kodi addon - when pressing the 3 buttons on either remote in edit mode in the mapper, the button presses are not recognized.  The other buttons appear as pressed.
The ir receiver for the VRC-1100 lights up when receiving a signal, and it flashes normally when these 3 buttons are pressed.
Installed the MRCRemote addon - no change.

Since it doesn't respond in either Kodi or NextPVR it leads me to think it is Windows that is not recognizing the commands?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks.

[PatK]

I personally use the FLIRC (wiki) dead simple with any remote, and a Kodi feature menu, couldn't say enough good words for it. Tips & Tricks has many step by step guides for remotes. Have you seen these MCE remote controls (wiki) and VRC-1100 (wiki)

[sceva]

I personally use the FLIRC (wiki) dead simple with any remote, and a Kodi feature menu, couldn't say enough good words for it. Tips & Tricks has many step by step guides for remotes. Have you seen these MCE remote controls (wiki) and VRC-1100 (wiki)

I have seen the Tips and Tricks, the VRC-1100, and dozens of other links, but none with my issue - at least none with a resolution.

I had not seen FLIRC - that looks promising if I cannot resolve this otherwise.

My thought is that these 3 keys are either sending a slightly different code that W10 is having trouble with, or W10's keymap is intercepting the commands before Kodi/NextPVR sees them.  Is an app available to show what commands are being sent?  Or a way to review the keymapping on W10?

One more note, the Rii remote has a keyboard on the back side - I can use the space bar and it will play/pause the videos and that works fine.

[PatK]

an app available to show what commands are being sent?

The log in debug mode will show each command, then you can see what is sent and if the keymap is loaded.

[sceva]

I tried a program called showkey, and it shows nothing for the Play, Pause, or stop keys.  A few other keys from the VRC-1100 do not appear either - some (but not all) of the fast forward/rewind keys.  All the other keys show up as they should.

The keymap folder has one xml - gen.xml with only this in it:

 :
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<keymap/>

Here is the log.  I don't know much about this, but I see a bunch of keyboard scancodes like this:
2020-02-04 19:14:59.935 T:6288   DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x00, sym: 0x0000, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
2020-02-04 19:15:00.102 T:6288   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 1 times.
2020-02-04 19:15:00.102 T:6288   DEBUG: CInputManager::HandleKey: long-0 (0x100f200, obc-16838913) pressed, action is

and a few like this:
2020-02-04 19:15:36.223 T:6288   DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x4b, sym: 0x0114, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
2020-02-04 19:15:36.223 T:6288   DEBUG: CInputManager::HandleKey: left (0xf082) pressed, action is Left
2020-02-04 19:15:36.223 T:6288   DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x4b, sym: 0x0114, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
2020-02-04 19:15:36.223 T:6288   DEBUG: CInputManager:rocessMouse: trying mouse action wheelup
2020-02-04 19:15:36.223 T:6288   DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x4d, sym: 0x0113, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
2020-02-04 19:15:36.223 T:6288   DEBUG: CInputManager::HandleKey: right (0xf083) pressed, action is Right 

I pressed the volume up/down buttons about 8 times each, and then the play/pause and stop keys about 8 times each.

the full log is here: log

Thanks.