[packman] Kodi and the Hama MCE remote control...

[Manfred Hollstein]

On Mon, 26 Oct 2026, 17:03:40 +0100, Manfred Hollstein via Packman wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> in case you are using Kodi with an MCE remote control you may have asked
> yourself, why some buttons don't do what you expect - this was the case
> for me at least. IIRC, the exact same remote control used to work
> flawlessly up until Kodi 19, but Kodi 20 broke it somehow. E.g. the OK
> button used to show the common interface for pausing, skipping backward
> and forward, changing the audio channels, sub-titles, etc., but at some
> point it didn't work anymore. I then found this nice "kodi_hama_mce"
> program which restored the former behaviour.
> 
> If you want to use it, you'd have to start it as a daemon (could be done
> with a systemd service), but I just use the following wrapper:
> 
>   sudo /usr/bin/kodi_hama_mce -d
>   kodi
>   sudo /usr/bin/killall kodi_hama_mce
> 
> I'll submit this as a new package to Multimedia now, hoping some other
> maintainer will accept it.

  <https://pmbs.links2linux.org/request/show/6621>

Cheers.

l8er
manfred

> PS: If someone insists on a systemd service, I'm open for SRs ;-)
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