LibreELEC) 9.x and hwdb.d modifications to enable detection of button presses

YetAnother · May 11, 2019 at 9:17 PM

With LE 8.2.5 using a RPI 1+ I added the following into a file called 99-keyboard.hwdb in the folder configfiles/hwdb.d :

# RF Remote
evdev:input:b0003v2319p0014*
KEYBOARD_KEY_090001=enter

This file worked just fine to enable the button in kodi for 8.2.5. But in LE 9.0.1 and 9.0.2 this has no effect at all. Is this a bug or should I do it some other way in 9.x?

YetAnother · July 26, 2019 at 9:31 PM

I'm going to reactivate this thread since I found something interesting. I think I stumbled upon the solution when I was trying 9.1.002 which has the very same problem.

If you simply do:

Code

LibreELEC:~ # systemctl stop kodi
LibreELEC:~ # udevadm trigger
LibreELEC:~ # systemctl start kodi

...everything will work again. So my guess is that whatever udevadm trigger does has be performed before Kodi is started in the boot up process.

**mglae** · July 27, 2019 at 9:00 AM

Does it work at boot if you add the trigger to autostart.sh?

Code

echo udevadm trigger >>/storage/.config/autostart.sh

YetAnother · July 27, 2019 at 1:07 PM

Quote from mglae

Does it work at boot if you add the trigger to autostart.sh?

Yes, that was the first thing I did after discovering the problem and it works perfectly (using 9.0.2 now).