How to enable longpress on Fire TV low button remote - Chromebox M004u Libreelec 8.1.2

bes03 · October 29, 2017 at 10:18 PM

Hello,

I'm on Chromebox M004u, CN60 Celeron 2955U

OS: Libreelec 8.1.2

Is there a way to enable Kodi longpress feature to work with this low button remote?

These keycodes all work perfectly for regular presses:

<key id="0xa6"> # Up button.
<key id="0xa7"> # Down button.
<key id="0xa9"> # Left button.
<key id="0xa8"> # Right button.

<key id="0x0b"> # select button.
<key id="0xd8"> # back button.
<key id="0x25"> # home button.

<key id="0x2c"> # hamburger 3 line button.
<key id="0xe2"> # Rewind button.
<key id="0xea"> # play/pause button.
<key id="0xe3"> # FF button.

So, for example, this works:

Pressing the hamburger 3 line button, will correctly do NextSubtitle in this example:
<key id="0x2c">NextSubtitle</key>

But longpressing that same button will not do this SubtitleSearch and instead will just press NextSubtitle (0x2c) repeatedly, very fast.
<key id="0x2c" mod="longpress">ActivateWindow(SubtitleSearch)</key>

I'm not using lirc, nor do I want to, and I don't believe longpress can work with non-keyboard LIRC remotes anyway, but for completeness, here are my lirc codes:

# irw
67 0 KEY_UP devinput
6c 0 KEY_DOWN devinput
69 0 KEY_LEFT devinput
6a 0 KEY_RIGHT devinput
160 0 KEY_OK devinput
9e 0 KEY_BACK devinput
66 0 KEY_HOME devinput
171 0 KEY_TITLE devinput
a8 0 KEY_REWIND devinput
cf 0 KEY_PLAY devinput
d0 0 KEY_FASTFORWARD devinput
9e 0 KEY_BACK devinput
9e 0 KEY_BACK devinput
cf 0 KEY_PLAY devinput

Any ideas? Thank you

**HiassofT** · October 30, 2017 at 12:01 PM

If I understand the config correctly eventlircd will translate the button presses from the firetv remote into lirc events - and longpress won't work.

You could try disabling that, then button presses will show up as keyboard events in kodi - with some different key ids though, eventlircd also remaps a few buttons, eg KEY_KPENTER to KEY_OK - see /etc/eventlircd.d/aftvsremote.evmap. No guarantee all buttons will work and you'll also have to create a keyboard.xml file on your own.

Easiest way to do this is to run the following command and then reboot - eventlircd will still be running but it won't translate any remote events into lirc events:

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: > /storage/.config/udev.rules.d/98-eventlircd.rules

If it doesn't work just remove the empty udev rule file and reboot:

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rm /storage/.config/udev.rules.d/98-eventlircd.rules

so long,

Hias

bes03 · November 7, 2017 at 2:22 AM

Hi, thanks for this. I will try this and report back.