[SOLVED] My RF remote has stopped working after migration to Kodi v17

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I had the same problem running kodi 17.0-2 on Arch Linux (4.4.49-1-ARCH) on a raspberry pi 2.

I discovered that the kernel was misidentifying the keyboard part of the remote as a joystick.

Using information from https://github.com/denilsonsa/udev-joystick-blacklist I created the udev rule /etc/udev/rules.d/51-not-a-joystick.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="input", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1d57", ATTRS{idProduct}=="ad03", ENV{ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK}=="?*", ENV{ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK}=""
SUBSYSTEM=="input", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1d57", ATTRS{idProduct}=="ad03", KERNEL=="js[0-9]*", RUN+="/bin/rm %E{DEVNAME}", ENV{ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK}=""

I think kodi may be only looking for specific types of input devices, that is, not joysticks.

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