PS3 BD Remote (Gen1) Key Mapping

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Hello, I recently had my Zotac mini HTPC with LibreElec on it die, and I took a chance on the Vero 4K…Kodi out of the box was pretty appealing.

Unfortunately, I’ve found myself hunting for instructions on how to install LibreElec on the Vero.

But before i head down that road, I figure i’ll try to get some help here first. My expectation, based on OpenElec and LibreElec was that my BD Remote would just work once I got it paired. Out of the box, i used the little included remote to quickly get my BD remote paired and thought i was done.

Unfortunately, as has previously been reported, only certain buttons are working (Play, Stop, Navigation) but other important ones like Vol Up, Vol Down, Mute, etc don’t work.
Like a previous poster, i tried the keymap add-on and managed to capture Rewind (61636), but all of the others I try don’t even register in that add-on.

I’ve reviewed and attempted the solutions below, without much luck.

and:
https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Set_up_PS3_BD_Remote - which is 3 years old and full of broken links.

I’m running the latest version of OSMC and my remote is a Gen 1 PS3 BD remote.

I would be willing to manually build a remote.xml if i could capture the codes the remote is sending…if only i knew how.

Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions.

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If you enable Kodi debug logging, you should be able to get the codes from each press. We can then help you build a Keymap or get this included in OSMC

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Thanks Sam!
Just enable debugging via the GUI and then work my way through the keys? Where is the log file written to?

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The log file is /home/osmc/.kodi/temp/kodi.log