HID Remote Setup

Hello,

I used an USB IR to HID receiver based on IRMP for years, initially on X86 machines and then on ARM based devices. It used the "hid_mapper" tool to test, map and decode the IR stream.

Now I have a new machine with the latest LibreELEC, but the remote doesn't work anymore: The device is recognized, but hid_mapper can't seem to find it.

After a few searches, I discovered that newer LibreELEC handle the decoding internally; I've been able to set up a (partially) working remote, however I have a lot of problems:

I'm getting a lot of ghost presses, sometimes the remote is stuck (LE receives the same key continuously) and generally it doesn't work as good as it used to be with "hid_mapper".

So, I have a few requests:

Is there an help page on how to set-up an HID based remote?

Is it possible to make "hid_mapper" work again? Failing that, can someone tell me how to fix the ghost presses/stuck inputs?

Thanks

Where is the part about HID remotes?

Quote from Da Flex

[Quote from LibreELEC.wiki - Infra-Red Remotes]

That's for Apple devices? But I have (had) a different problem.

Anyway, I think I found the problem and a solution.

The IR-receiver is correctly detected:

[2.277718] hid-generic 0003:16C0:05DF.0003: hiddev96,hidraw2: USB HID v1.01 Device [www.dvbviewer.info USB IR Remote Receiver] on usb-0000:00:14.0-2.4/input0

And in the past I used this command in the autostart.sh:

hid_mapper64 --manufacturer 'www.dvbviewer.info' --product 'USB IR Remote Receiver' --map 'remote.map' --disable-repetition

Unfortunately the hid_mapper tool doesn't work anymore, but by activating the "Enable HID remote" in the libreELEC settings, this command is automatically launched:

/usr/bin/hid-remote --lookup-id --manufacturer 16c0 --product 05df --map /storage/.config/hid_remote/remote.map

Note the missing "--disable-repetition". Without that option I get ghost button presses and erratical behavior.

I've disabled the "Enable HID remote" setting and put the command below in the autostart.sh and now it works correctly.

/usr/bin/hid-remote --lookup-id --manufacturer 16c0 --product 05df --map /storage/.config/hid_remote/remote.map --disable-repetition &

A couple more questions:

How do I disable eventlircd?
How can I change the "Enable Hid remote" so that the disable repetition flag is set?

N100 mini PC.

Quote from Zameero

How do I disable eventlircd?

Found it: "systemctl mask eventlircd".