Tivo Slide Remote

gremlin · February 19, 2017 at 2:45 AM

So I did a search and the words TIVO Slide don't appear in any post I can find using the built in search or search engine.

Mostly this remote works great, but there are a couple of things I haven't been able to do mainly around getting the other buttons to work, things like the info button and the select button in the middle of the dpad when it's slid open. I followed the directions on this site: TiVo Slide - Official Kodi Wiki

and put the file 95-tivoslide.hwdb in /etc/.config/hwdb.d

This is my file:

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keyboard:usb:v150Ap1201*
keyboard:usb:v150Ap1203*
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000c0041=enter #SELECT
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000c0046=backspace #BACK
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000c006d=f3 #ZOOM
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000c006c=f4 #A (YELLOW)
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000c006b=f5 #B (BLUE)
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000c0069=f6 #C (RED)
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000c006a=f7 #D (GREEN)
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000700d8=f8 #CLEAR
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000c0083=enter #ENTER/LAST
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000c008d=home #GUIDE
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000c009c=pageup #CHUP
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000c009d=pagedown #CHDN
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000c00b3=fastforward #FASTFORWARD
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000c00b4=rewind #REWIND
 KEYBOARD_KEY_0000C00b1=playpause #PAUSE
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000c00f5=stopcd #SLOW
 KEYBOARD_KEY_000c0209=i #INFO
 KEYBOARD_KEY_ffff003d=tab #TiVo
 KEYBOARD_KEY_ffff003e=o # Live TV
 KEYBOARD_KEY_ffff0041=pagedown # Thumbs Down
 KEYBOARD_KEY_ffff0042=pageup # Thumbs Up

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I also made a copy of this called 99-tivoslide.hwdb then I created the file 95-keymap.rules and 99-keymap.rules with this content

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SUBSYSTEM=="input", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="150a", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="1203", RUN+="/lib/udev/keymap $name /etc/udev/hwdb.d/99-tivoslide.hwdb"

Then I ran the command

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udevadm hwdb --update

and still these key's don't work any thoughts?

thank you,

-G

**lrusak** · February 19, 2017 at 7:26 AM Official Post

There is no such command "/lib/udev/keymap", I would replace the command with "systemd-hwdb update". So your udev rule becomes

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SUBSYSTEM=="input", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="150a", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="1203", RUN+="/usr/bin/systemd-hwdb update"

make sure you are using the correct rule for your remote.

also see the note on that page

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Note: On newer systems, such as Ubuntu 15.10 or OpenELEC 7.0, the udev device matching syntax has changed, and you will need to use
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evdev:input:b0003v150Ap1203*
and
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evdev:input:b0003v150Ap1201*
in place of
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keyboard:usb:v150Ap1203*
and
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keyboard:usb:v150Ap1201*
respectively

gremlin · February 19, 2017 at 2:45 PM

Thank you! I saw the second part and thought I'd done the substitution so maybe I pasted an old version of the file, or missed it.

The first bit I'm hoping is what I need. I'm traveling for a few days but will give it a go when I'm back.

gremlin · February 25, 2017 at 5:40 AM

Okay just tried the command above and it didn't work, I notice your command doesn't include the path to the hwdb file and I don't see where to add that looking up that command on the web. Sorry I'm not much of a linux person I'm trying to learn and have a lot of experience with other OS's

gremlin · February 28, 2017 at 4:14 AM

So I'll bump this again, Anyone know how to make this work?

gremlin · March 20, 2017 at 10:27 PM

Guess no ones got this going, it's a shame as most of it works quite well...

gremlin · April 2, 2017 at 5:51 PM

Ping to try and find if anyone's made this work. I'm really trying to get the Info, Guide, and Channel Up/Down buttons working. It'd be nice to get the Dpad working from the keyboard as well, but I've just had no luck at all.

gremlin · April 3, 2017 at 5:37 AM

Here's what I've figured out so far. I've gotten evtest installed and running, the output looks like this at the top

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No device specified, trying to scan all of /dev/input/event*
Available devices:
/dev/input/event0:      TiVo, Inc. S5 Remote Control
/dev/input/event1:      TiVo, Inc. S5 Remote Control
Select the device event number [0-1]: 0
Input driver version is 1.0.1
Input device ID: bus 0x3 vendor 0x150a product 0x1203 version 0x111
Input device name: "TiVo, Inc. S5 Remote Control"
Supported events:

then I pushed the buttons I wanted to use:

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Properties:
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Event: time 1491193607.720322, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value c0209
Event: time 1491193607.720322, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 358 (KEY_INFO), value 1
Event: time 1491193607.720322, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1491193607.952321, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value c0209
Event: time 1491193607.952321, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 358 (KEY_INFO), value 0

Then I found that the file needed to be in /storage/.config/hwdb.d/99-tivoslide.hwdb (not 95 like the item says accoording to the readme in the directory)

Then I made my file look like this:

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evdev:input:b0003v150ap1203*
KEYBOARD_KEY_000c0041=enter #SELECT
KEYBOARD_KEY_000c0046=backspace #BACK
KEYBOARD_KEY_000c006d=f3 #ZOOM
KEYBOARD_KEY_000700d8=f8 #CLEAR
KEYBOARD_KEY_000c0083=enter #ENTER/LAST
KEYBOARD_KEY_0c008d=home #GUIDE
KEYBOARD_KEY_000c009c=pageup #CHUP
KEYBOARD_KEY_000c009d=pagedown #CHDN
KEYBOARD_KEY_000c00b3=fastforward #FASTFORWARD
KEYBOARD_KEY_000c00b4=rewind #REWIND
KEYBOARD_KEY_0000C00b1=playpause #PAUSE
KEYBOARD_KEY_000c00f5=stopcd #SLOW
KEYBOARD_KEY_0c0209=i #INFO
KEYBOARD_KEY_ffff003d=tab #TiVo
KEYBOARD_KEY_ffff003e=o # Live TV
KEYBOARD_KEY_ffff0041=pagedown # Thumbs Down
KEYBOARD_KEY_ffff0042=pageup # Thumbs Up

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but still no dice, I cannot get those commands to work. Anyone got any ideas? I was trying to follow along at home from this thread: thread-1632.html?highlight=hwdb.d but it seems like there's not enough here to make it work