Howto change key press to longkeypress for remote

Quote from orclex

Hi,

I'm running LibreELEC 7 with Kodi 16.1 that has the new feature for long pressing keys. I'm fine with the default configuration for my remote in LibreELEC/Kodi except the shutdown key. I want to change only this key behaviour to shutdown LibreELEC if the key is pressed for a longer time.

For that I created a file /storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/remote.xml with

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<keymap>
  <global>
    <remote>
      <power mod="longpress">ShutDown()</power>
    </remote>
  </global>
</keymap>

and rebooted the machine.
Unfortunately Kodi still shuts down after one short key press on the power button. lirc (irw) detects the key KEY_POWER.
Is there still something missing that my configuration does not overwrite the default configuration for the power button?

Thanks!

You've not overwritten the power button's settings, you've just added a new one for a long press.
Maybe:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<keymap>
  <global>
    <remote>
      <power mod="longpress">ShutDown()</power>
      <power>noop</power>
    </remote>
  </global>
</keymap>

where 'noop' is 'no action'.

Quote from orclex

Thank you very much for your hint. This disables the power button but does not enable longpress for power.
But if you change it to

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<keymap>
  <global>
    <remote>
      <power>noop</power>
      <power mod="longpress">ShutDown()</power>
    </remote>
  </global>
</keymap>

then it is working! So first disable the old function, then add a new one.

Best

Good spot, and that makes sense.