I ran into a problem starting in 8.0.1 where some of my remote buttons stopped working. After digging, I discovered that way that rc keymaps are specified completely changed between 8.0.0 and 8.0.1(!)
Read this for the new way of doing it: LibreELEC.tv/rc_maps.cfg.sample at master · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub
After setting up my rc_maps.cfg to point to my old keymap, it started working again.
I downgraded to 8.0.0 and the remote is working correctly again but there's no lircd-uinput involved. So it's something else.
I then dug some more and realised what the special keys were about - they are keys that I remapped using an rc_keymap and the way these are enabled changed in 8.0.1
I had previous dropped a keymap file in ~/.config/rc_keymaps/ but now it seems I'm supposed to edit ~/.config/rc_maps.cfg to specify that I want to use the map. I made this change and now the remote is working correctly.
This seems a major change that should have been highlighted. Even the README in ~/.cinfig/rc_keymaps/ still describes the old system.
I think the punchline is that lircd-uinput isn't running anymore.
I noticed this problem as well after upgrading to 8.0.1 (and now running 8.0.2). The keycodes I defined in Lircmap.xml are not working, while the other ones are.
dmesg: WLCi
journalctl -a: WLQW
lsof | grep /dev/input: SGfP
grep . /sys/class/input/event*/device/name: WFBH
You'll see there's no lircd-uinput event device. event9 is my remote.
