Remote at Osmc running on a Raspberry Pi 4

Hi all,

I own a Raspberry Pi 4 Modell B with a Joyit Case including
fans.

I did a fresh install of osmc.

My Samsung Remote worked without any further action.
The problem is, i own a Samsung Smart TV, which uses the same remote.
But i own a Samsung remote for BD and TV, that i wanna use for both.

I did NOT install an ir Receiver diode at the raspberry pi 4, seems like there is an internal one.
I don´t know to which gpio pin it is connected, to set it up in config.txt.

First try.

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo systemctl stop eventlircd.service
osmc@osmc:~$ sudo irrecord -d /dev/lirc0 ./other.conf
Running as regular user osmc
Using driver devinput on device /dev/lirc0
Could not init hardware (lircd running ? → close it, check permissions)
osmc@osmc:~$

Here is my config.txt

[pi4]
dtoverlay=rpivid-v4l2
arm_64bit=1
kernel=kernel.img

[all]
dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d,cma-512
disable_overscan=1
start_x=1
disable_splash=1
disable_fw_kms_setup=1
hdmi_ignore_cec_init=1
include config-user.txt

[pi02]
dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d,cma-256

[board-type=0x0e]
dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d,cma-256

The Strange Thing is, when i try to stop lirc, the samsung remote still works.

Any Ideas ?

The Pi doe not have any built-in IR. If your Samsung remote worked without further action, then it’s probably because it’s using HDMI-CEC. This is a protocol that allows one device (in this case your TV and thus your TV remote) to control other devices connected to it via HDMI.

maybe thats it.

No that’s definitely it :slight_smile:

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