Can we please have hid-aureal in the kernel like Rasbian used to have or failing that the linux headers so we can build our own hid-aureal ko. Without it I am reduced to using a Rii keyboard which doesn’t go down well with the missus.
I’ll see what we can do.
Cheers
S
Thanks.
This was in RaspBMC but still not there in Kodi RC3 for the Raspberry Pi. All I can find on Google is some others wanting this as it allows support of a cheap remote.
Is there any chance of it making the final release, either in the kernel or as a loadable kernel module?
I have added this to my todo list.
Are you asking for supporting this remote with GPIO IR or with the included IR driver? I have had some of these and they are all different although they look the same. I have also observed that when using the included IR dongle the mouse functions often get in the way (remote switches to mouse mode) which is not so friendly on the wife factor
I was using the provided IR dongle with RaspBMC and hope to continue doing so. I had got it working pretty well. The remote starts in mopuse mopde after a boot but stays switched unless the blue button is pressed again. I don’t power down very often so the blue button mouse default is not much of an issue. All it needs is the hid-aureal module and then some fiddling with the configuration files.
The wife factor is currently very unfriendly as I am using a Rii keyboard 
On MythTV on a non RasPi with inputlirc I completely avoided the blue button mouse junk by mapping the mousey stuff to appropriate keys. I have also used a Harmony with the same dongle with no mouse problems by just mapping other buttons for RaspBMC.
BTW I didn’t get an email notification of the replies.- I just checked the email address in my profile it’s OK and in regular use.
I have added support for this device in Linux 4.1. This kernel will ship in the July update
Thanks for letting me know. I’d greatly appreciate it if you could let me know how this turns out.
Sam
Thats great news, thank you. I will let you know how it goes and what configuration I end up with.
Hello,
this is good news indeed. I’ve just downloaded the latest image (OSMC_TGT_rbp1_20150628.img.gz) and it seems on 3.18.13-1.
Do you have any ETA for the updated version with 4.1 Kernel?
When it’s ready
Sam
It’s pretty good. The remore started working as soon as I got OSMC installed (the July release ISO - now vanished - didn’t work until I did a command line upgrade).
I made a couple of changes to the config, and now it is just about perfect 
KEY_POWER powered off the RasPi so I changed it to map to KEY_CLOSE (evmap) and then KEY_CLOSE to (Lircmap) and finally to run my own script to stop any playing and turn of HDMI (keyboard.xml). I also use the texturecache script to turn off the display when the screen saver kicks in.
KEY_PREVIOUSSONG was mapped to KEY_BACK so I changed it to KEY_PREVIOUS
I mapped ctrl+KEY_I to KEY_MHP to get MyPictures on the right button
I changed ctrl+KEY_R from KEY_RED to KEY_RECORD
I’m still unsure which buttons to use for KEY_TITLE and KEY_INFO, I’ll wait to see how I like it. Which one to put on the MORE (i) button and where should the other one go?
I also use the FMRadio button to call a script to do stuff with Internet radio and cron to use the same method to wake me up with radio. I suppose this should really be a plugin.
I can’t get around the Blue mouse/keyboard toggle key, but it only needs pressing at initial boot. On the system I use with a Harmony remote I bypass that issue by mapping the buttons to unused button codes and back in the evmap. (I used to be able to do it with inputlirc that I coded to covert the mouse codes to the appropriate key codes)
thanks, Pete
Seems like a lot of effort - but as long as you’re happy
Derek
All I did was change some configurations - the hard work has already been done by someone else.