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

[Manfred Hollstein]

On Mon, 26 Oct 2026, 17:08:56 +0100, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> 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 ;-)

Hmm, the systemd service script even exists already... I created the
package three years ago ;-)
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