Setting this to confirmed since the remote definition differs from the sort-of-upstream lirc-remotes.
Basically this is a Kodi bug since Kodi (as the only major client) does not respect the mappings done by lircrc but instead reads the raw codes from lircd. One of the purposes of lircrc is to handle problems like this, and so it does - when used. Since re-mapping this key according to the patch would break configurations for other users which have handled this using .lircrc I'd recommend closing this bug as wontfix. Someone should file a bug against Kodi for bad behaviour. It's too late to skip the raw reads from lircd, but adding an option to use lircrc is IMHO the right path. Kodi does some mapping, but lircrc is more than mappings: modes, repeat suppression, long keypresses and so on. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu Bug Team, which is subscribed to lirc in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1623512 Title: Fix for Play/Pause key on some MCE remotes Status in lirc package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The file /usr/share/lirc/remotes/mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb contains a section reading: #seen on HP Pavilion dv3t remote --Tim Mann, 3 Nov 2009 Media 0x00007b7f PlayPause 0x00007b91 I have a Compro VideoMate K300 remote, and I can't find a key corresponding to Media, but it does have a Play/Pause key generating the same code as above (0x7b91). However, using it with Kodi, for example, it does nothing useful, because Kodi does not recognise the "PlayPause" code. I suggest that for Kodi, XMBC & similar programs it's probably more useful to change the code output to KEY_PLAY. (I tried KEY_PLAYPAUSE, which is also mentioned in Kodi's Lircmap.xml, but that did not work in Kodi: nothing happened when I pressed the key.) With KEY_PLAY, the key works as expected: it plays or pauses the music. The change is to change "PlayPause" in the above line to "KEY_PLAY". Arguably, the correct fix is to change the keycode to "KEY_PLAYPAUSE", and then make Kodi correctly respond to "KEY_PLAYPAUSE". I attempted to do this by editing Kodi's Lircmap.xml, but failed. I looked at upstream lirc, but that has completely changed the organisation of remote config files since 0.9.0, so it seems most appropriate to make a fix in Ubuntu (and possibly Debian). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: lirc 0.9.0-0ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-34.53-generic 4.4.15 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-34-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Wed Sep 14 14:00:37 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-26 (658 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) SourcePackage: lirc UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-07-25 (50 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lirc.hardware.conf: 2016-09-14T12:27:53.394843 mtime.conffile..etc.lirc.lircd.conf: 2016-09-14T13:55:14.416867 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc/+bug/1623512/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
