atvclient working but kodi does nothing

zemaree · June 11, 2017 at 10:43 PM

Hi,

i have some trouble controlling librelec 8.0.2 (it work if i revert back to 7.x) on my mac mini.

i made some step in the troubleshooting:

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LibreELEC (official) Version: 8.0.2
Lemini:~ # ps | grep atv*
    9 root       0:00 [migration/0]
   11 root       0:00 [watchdog/0]
   14 root       0:00 [watchdog/1]
   15 root       0:00 [migration/1]
   31 root       0:00 [ata_sff]
   35 root       0:00 [vmstat]
  262 dbus       0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation
  285 root       0:00 /usr/sbin/atvclient -m
 1307 root       0:00 grep atv*
Lemini:~ # kill -hup 285
Lemini:~ # atvclient -m -d
Creating socket...
Preparing button map...
Paired to: 0
Ready!
25 87 ee 96 04
Multi-remote candidate
Event id: 9604
26 87 ee 96 04
Event id: 9604
26 87 ee 96 04
Event id: 9604
Event id: 0000
Sending multi-remote button 05
25 87 ee 9b 0a
Multi-remote candidate
Event id: 9b0a
Sending multi-remote button 33
26 87 ee 9b 0a
Event id: 9b0a
26 87 ee 9b 0a
Event id: 9b0a
Event id: 0000
25 87 ee 9f 07
Multi-remote candidate
Event id: 9f07
Sending multi-remote button 54
26 87 ee 9f 07
Event id: 9f07
26 87 ee 9f 07
Event id: 9f07
Event id: 0000
25 87 ee 96 0d
Multi-remote candidate
Event id: 960d
Sending multi-remote button 02
26 87 ee 96 0d
Event id: 960d
26 87 ee 96 0d
Event id: 960d
Event id: 0000
Sending multi-remote button 02

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This is the output if i press button un my harmony configured as plex (was working till 7.x).

As you can see the remote is working, the atvclient too but in kodi nothing happened. If instead of harmony as plex I use harmony as apple remote it works (and atvclient detect as below:

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26 87 ee 86 0c
Event id: 000c
Event id: 0000
Sending button 02
25 87 ee 86 0c
Event id: 000c
Sending button 02
Down

if the keymap.xml missing?

If this is the case looking at the atvclient:

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button_map[EVENT_EXTRA_PAGEDOWN]                    = new CPacketBUTTON(EVENT_EXTRA_PAGEDOWN,       "CC:AppleRemote", BTN_DOWN | BTN_NO_REPEAT | BTN_QUEUE);

  multi_map[EVENT_HARMONY_UP]                        = new CPacketBUTTON(EVENT_HARMONY_UP,           "CC:Harmony", BTN_DOWN);

should i declare it as

<joystick name="Harmony">?

"In Krypton, remote handling has changed some and by default the Apple Remote is no longer a Joystick but a custom controller. This pull basically swaps out JS0 in strings for CC.

I've tested this as working with an Apple Remote. I've also modified the string for Harmony but have no way to test."

so probably joystick is not the correct statement but i don't find the correct keynames

tnks

sjobbels · June 15, 2017 at 7:34 PM

Hi Zemaree,

I have the same issue with my mac mini and harmony when I upgraded to kodi 17.3 (libreelec).

Did you find a solution?

Here is the link to the controller file:

xbmc/customcontroller.Harmony.xml at master · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub

thanks!

Juul

**HiassofT** · June 16, 2017 at 10:15 AM

I'm not exactly sure what's going wrong with atvclient (no hardware to test, LE is shipping latest atvclient version with krypton patches), but I noticed that kernel support for the apple ir receiver was disabled in LE.

Here's a test build with CONFIG_APPLEIR enabled:

LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.0-devel-20170616093132-r25705-g16fea8734.tar

Could you please test this build and report back if this works better/worse with atvclient running?

With added kernel support kodi should now receive IR events without atvclient running. To test this disable atvclient:

systemctl mask atvclient

and then reboot. (you can later re-enable atvclient with systemctl unmask atvclient and another reboot).

In both cases please post kodi debug logs where you press some buttons.

Also please post the output of the following commands:

lsmod

lsusb -v

dmesg | paste

lsof | grep /dev/input

BTW: the kernel driver only supports the remote codes of the original Apple remotes, so please test with these (maybe the Harmony configured as a Apple remote works, too). Other remote codes should be supported by running lircd, but let's leave this for later.

so long,

Hias

sjobbels · June 17, 2017 at 9:45 AM

Hi Hias,

After disabling atvclient:

I don't have an apple controller at home so I configured my Harmony as an apple tv controller. It's responding but the keys are not doing what they supposed to do

This is my Kodi.log: Kodi log - Pastebin.com

lsmod: lsmod - Pastebin.com

lsusb -v: lsusb -v - Pastebin.com

dmesg | paste: aWSD

lsof | grep /dev/input: lsof | grep /dev/input - Pastebin.com

Afrer enabling atvclient:

It's responding good to the standard keys!

This is my Kodi.log: kodi.log - Pastebin.com

lsmod: lsmod - Pastebin.com

lsusb -v: Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05ac:8242 Apple, Inc. Built-in IR Receiver Device Descri - Pastebin.com

dmesg | paste: OUFT

lsof | grep /dev/input: 263 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind /dev/input/event2 263 /usr/lib/systemd/syst - Pastebin.com

Thanks for your help so far

Juul

**HiassofT** · June 18, 2017 at 8:43 AM

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

You didn't have debug logging enabled when grabbing the log files so I couldn't see which button presses were received by kodi. But I assume in the case with atvclient disabled you got volume-up/down forward, back, play/pause - is this correct?

Could you also test, with atvclient enabled, if the harmony profile(s) you used before on LE 7.x are working fine with this build?

so long,

Hias

sjobbels · June 18, 2017 at 1:45 PM

Hi Hias,

I will do it next weekend. I'm off for a business trip.

thanks!

Juul