Thanks to long-time joint effort work Kodi now has significantly improved input handling.
This allowed us to finally drop the eventlircd workaround and use standard linux (lib)input handling for remotes, too.
Currently LE13 images are building and the next nightlies will contain this change.
One of the benefits is that Kodi now supports a lot more buttons/keys and the majority of the remotes should now work out-of-the-box.
Another benefit of standard Kodi input handling is that you no longer need to fiddle around with Lircmap.xml or remote.xml to remap the buttons but can use the keymap editor addon from the kodi repo (or modify keyboard.xml).
And this finally brings long-press support to remotes, too - which helps a lot if your remote has very few buttons. eg longpress-OK will open the context menu.
As with every big change there will be some minor disruptions:
If you previously adjusted the button mapping with remote.xml you'll now have to redo it.
Even if you didn't change it the mapping may now be a bit different - just use the keymap editor addon to adjust it to your preferences.
And although kodi now supports a lot more buttons it could be that your remote uses some keycodes that kodi doesn't support (yet).
In this case we need your help so we can further improve Kodi and LibreELEC:
Please tell us about the vendor and model of your remote and which buttons are not working and also post a kodi debug log:
Enable debug logging in the kodi settings, then reboot, then just press the non-working keys and then upload the log - either by running "pastekodi" over ssh or with the log upload function in the LibreELEC settings - and post the URL to the log.
so long,
Hias
