I got Kodi 16.1 installed on Raspbian 8 Jessie! I finally got my Hauppauge 45 button remote to sort of work with the GPIO ir receiver.
I enabled the lirc_rpi overlay in config.txt then installed lirc. I made a lircd.conf and placed it in /etc/lirc.
A couple of things are going on:
I am getting repeating key presses, that I somewhat mitigated by adding “suppress_repeat 3” to the lircd.conf; better but not perfect.
Some of the keys either don’t do anything, even though irw shows they are received, or the do unexpected things. For instance the “OK” button is set to namespace “key_enter”, but does nothing sometimes and shows the context menu sometimes.
Questions:
Does kodi and raspbian put the Lircmap.xml, remote.xml and keyboard.xml in the proper folders? Or, am I supposed to figure out on my own where to move them to?
The remote and the lircd.conf worked well in a few other instances; OSMC, Libreelec, openelec etc. In those I only neede to enable the overlay and install the lircd.conf. Did I do right to install lirc, is that why the repeats?