Remote Hardware Not Found - LE 8.90.4 Alpha (Leia)

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I have a mecool M8s pro+ (s905x), which has been flashed with Magendanz firmware (specifically "update_M8S_PRO+-V0928_TVStock-20171216_OTA.zip").

The firmware update was successful.

The remote works fine in Android => both the remote transmitter and receiver are working

The remote was working with previous versions of the Leia Alpha builds (using meson)

I'm using the LE DTB -> gxl_p212_2g.dtb generated on 14-Feb-18. The box seems to boot and behave fine in all respects except the IR Remote

Now I'm trying to set the remote up using ir-keytable, but the utility cannot find a useable remote receiver

# systemctl stop kodi 
# systemctl stop eventlircd
# ir-keytable
No devices found
#

I did find what appears to be a remote device in dmesg ("")

# dmesg |grep remote
[    3.794434@0] remote: Driver init
[    3.797614@0] remote: platform_data g_remote_ao_offset=580
[    3.802914@0] remote: platform_data irq =228
[    3.807177@0] remote: set drvdata completed
[    3.811377@0] remote: device_create_file completed 
[    3.816645@0] input: aml_keypad as /devices/meson-remote.11/input/input0
[    3.823282@0] remote: input_register_device completed 
[    3.828168@0] remote: set_remote_mode[78]
[    3.832097@0] remote: remote config major:231
[    3.836734@0] remote: physical address:0x613c8000
[   65.553420@0] remote: Wrong custom code is 0xe41bff00
[   66.062732@0] remote: Wrong custom code is 0xa55aff00
[   66.513575@0] remote: Wrong custom code is 0xf906ff00
[   66.827895@0] remote: Wrong custom code is 0xe51aff00
[   67.544994@0] remote: Wrong custom code is 0xe916ff00
#

so tried using that by setting a keytable directly eg.

ir-keytable --clear --device=/dev/input/event0 --protocol=nec --write /usr/lib/udev/rc_keymaps/libreelec_multi_amlogic

But this just results in a stalled process and a machine that can only be rebooted by removing the power ie. unplugging

Any advice will be gratefully received

PS I attempted to generate & paste a log file from within LE without success ... the process kept failing, so I've manually compressed dmesg and kodi.log together and attached themlog-2018-02-18-13.25.00.zip

aha ... an hour or so later there's a new release ..

LibreELEC-S905.arm-9.0-devel-20180218031232-r28165-gb635550.tar

I've installed the new release ... and now the remote works out of the box ie. no other changes

now I see

# ir-keytable
Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event4) with:
        Driver: meson-ir, table: rc-empty
        lirc device: /dev/lirc0
        Supported protocols: lirc rc-5 jvc sony nec sanyo mce_kbd rc-6 
        Enabled protocols: nec rc-6 
        Name: meson-ir
        bus: 25, vendor/product: 0000:0000, version: 0x0000
        Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 125 ms
#

Thanks Adam