MCE Remote Control Power Button

jokabomo · August 16, 2016 at 4:22 PM

I am using LibreELEC on a RPi3 with this remote: VRC-1100 . It seems like the power button is not programmable. I believe the underlying OS intercepts it before Kodi. Is there a way to tell LibreELEC to ignore that button?

The wiki (for Ubuntu) says:
Power button is captured through a different interface. Open dconf-editor application. Browse down to org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power by clicking on the black triangles next to each path element. Locate button-suspend and change it's setting to Nothing. NOTE: Although, this prevents the computer from shutting down, the key still doesn't make it into Kodi. This needs work. Holding Alt on the keyboard and pressing Power button on the remote does send "sleep" command to Kodi.

trogggy · August 16, 2016 at 5:42 PM

Code

<keymap>
  <global>
    <remote>
      <power>noop</power>
    </remote>
  </global>
</keymap>

The above in remote.xml (/storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/remote.xml) should work.
Unless the remote's recognized as a keyboard in which case change 'remote' for <keyboard>.

jokabomo · August 18, 2016 at 2:44 AM

Thanks, but that didn't work. I need a OS sollution as the key is never getting to Kodi because the system shuts down whenever this key is pressed.

trogggy · August 18, 2016 at 5:17 AM

Quote from jokabomo

Thanks, but that didn't work. I need a OS sollution as the key is never getting to Kodi because the system shuts down whenever this key is pressed.

It 100% does work. I have a pi3 and the same remote (amongst many others).
Just tested on a fresh install of libreelec 7.02.
Without remote.xml power button powers off.

Code

06:14:03 1131.469360 T:1962504192   DEBUG: LIRC: Update - NEW at 50610:74 0 KEY_POWER devinput (KEY_POWER)
06:14:03 1131.469604 T:1962504192   DEBUG: OnKey: rewind (0xc4) pressed, action is ShutDown()

With remote.xml it does nothing.

Code

06:03:28 496.663666 T:1962446848   DEBUG: LIRC: Update - NEW at 78154:74 0 KEY_POWER devinput (KEY_POWER)
06:03:28 496.663910 T:1962446848   DEBUG: OnKey: rewind (0xc4) pressed, action is noop
06:03:28 496.703552 T:1962446848   DEBUG: LIRC: Update - NEW at 78194:74 0 KEY_POWER_UP devinput (KEY_POWER_UP)
06:03:32 500.487885 T:1962446848   DEBUG: LIRC: Update - NEW at 81978:74 0 KEY_POWER devinput (KEY_POWER)
06:03:32 500.488129 T:1962446848   DEBUG: OnKey: rewind (0xc4) pressed, action is noop
06:03:32 500.528290 T:1962446848   DEBUG: LIRC: Update - NEW at 82019:74 0 KEY_POWER_UP devinput (KEY_POWER_UP)

Are you sure you've put the remote.xml in the right place (/storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps)?
Sure you've not made remote.xml.txt?

Your ubuntu wiki info isn't relevant - the power button in libreelec is mapped in remote.xml, you can set it to do nothing (<noop>) or to do something else, just like any other button.

jokabomo · August 21, 2016 at 1:14 PM

My apologies. Your method does work. I named the file "remoteS.xml". My bad. Thanks.

trogggy · August 21, 2016 at 1:21 PM

No worries - I was making a new install so it didn't take a sec. Thanks for confirming.

MCE Remote Control Power Button

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