MCE Remote with LibreElec

jglazer63 · September 28, 2017 at 2:15 AM

I am sure this has been asked but I cannot find a definitive article. I have the IR receiver all setup and its kinda working but not all the MCE buttons on my remote work (back/play/etc). The numbers work, the arrows work, and some others. I am sure I have a faulty lircd.conf (I am trying the mceusb version). Has anyone gotten this to work properly? Any directions on how to go about making it function? I am a bit new to linux so you'll talk over my head quickly if you're not careful

Thanks!

**HiassofT** · September 28, 2017 at 7:32 AM

Details about remote configuration are in the wiki: infrared_remotes [LibreELEC]

MCE remotes should work out of the box without any configuration, make sure lirc is disabled in LE settings.

Also make sure you use the latest LE 8.1.x version, there were reports that eventlircd on LE 8.0.x didn't pick up all remote events and thus some keys (eg OK) didn't work.

so long,

Hias

jglazer63 · September 28, 2017 at 12:38 PM

Thanks Hiassoft, I disabled lirc and now none of my buttons work on my remote. I have 8.0.2 running on my raspberrypi. Any thoughts?

**HiassofT** · September 28, 2017 at 12:56 PM

What kind of IR receiver and remote are you using?

If you use a simple IR receiver connected to a GPIO use the "gpio-ir" overlay instead of lirc-rpi in config.txt - see the wiki page for details.

Also, if you don't use an original Microsoft MCE remote post details about it and your current lircd.conf file.

so long,

Hias

jglazer63 · September 29, 2017 at 3:30 PM

I found that I had to add that one line in the config (can't remember which at the moment) to enable the MCE remote to be recognized. It took care of it.

gwilly7 · September 29, 2017 at 6:02 PM

I never had much luck with remotes on my pc's until I started using the Flirc receiver. Love it.