Public bug reported:
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
** Affects: lirc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial
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Fix for Play/Pause key on some MCE remotes
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