Minix Neo A2 remote suppoert

Aloha,
I’m a newbie, just starting my vast learning curve, regarding Kodi, and all the great possibilities of this platform. My problem, at the moment, is hat I purchased an Mecool BB2 box, and the remote is bad out of the box. I did get it up and running but I have a new Minix A2 remote that I want to use. I am having a problem getting it to work. If anyone has any tips, would be appreciated. I have the dongle plugged in the USB port of the box, but it doesn’t seem to recognize It? Do you use Kodi to set these up. Seems the box would auto read the remote since it’s using a USB port?