[mythtv-users] Remote control issue after Ubuntu upgrade

[Phill Edwards]

I know lots of people have been having remote control problems after
upgrading to 18.04 and I'm yet another one. But I think I'm very close.

I use a Harmony universal remote which worked fine on my 16.04 Ubuntu
frontend. I had it set up with devinput so I didn't need to run lirc .
After upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 the only buttons that generate a response
in MythTV are up, down, left, and right.

When I run ir-keytable I get a list of mappings as per below, and when I
run ir-keytable -t in a terminal window I get key responses.

~$ sudo ir-keytable --read --device=/dev/input/event4
scancode 0x800f0400 = KEY_NUMERIC_0 (0x200)
scancode 0x800f0401 = KEY_NUMERIC_1 (0x201)
scancode 0x800f0402 = KEY_NUMERIC_2 (0x202)
scancode 0x800f0403 = KEY_NUMERIC_3 (0x203)
scancode 0x800f0404 = KEY_NUMERIC_4 (0x204)
scancode 0x800f0405 = KEY_NUMERIC_5 (0x205)
scancode 0x800f0406 = KEY_NUMERIC_6 (0x206)
scancode 0x800f0407 = KEY_NUMERIC_7 (0x207)
scancode 0x800f0408 = KEY_NUMERIC_8 (0x208)
scancode 0x800f0409 = KEY_NUMERIC_9 (0x209)
scancode 0x800f040a = KEY_DELETE (0x6f)
scancode 0x800f040b = KEY_ENTER (0x1c)
scancode 0x800f040c = KEY_SLEEP (0x8e)
scancode 0x800f040d = KEY_MEDIA (0xe2)
scancode 0x800f040e = KEY_MUTE (0x71)
scancode 0x800f040f = KEY_INFO (0x166)
scancode 0x800f0410 = KEY_VOLUMEUP (0x73)
scancode 0x800f0411 = KEY_VOLUMEDOWN (0x72)
scancode 0x800f0412 = KEY_CHANNELUP (0x192)
scancode 0x800f0413 = KEY_CHANNELDOWN (0x193)
scancode 0x800f0414 = KEY_FASTFORWARD (0xd0)
scancode 0x800f0415 = KEY_REWIND (0xa8)
scancode 0x800f0416 = KEY_PLAY (0xcf)
scancode 0x800f0417 = KEY_RECORD (0xa7)
scancode 0x800f0418 = KEY_PAUSE (0x77)

And my $HOME/.mythtv/lircrc looks like this:
...
begin
    remote = devinput
    prog = mythtv
    button = KEY_NUMERIC_1
    config = 1
    repeat = 0
    delay = 10
end

begin
    remote = devinput
    prog = mythtv
    button = KEY_NUMERIC_0
    config = 0
    repeat = 0
    delay = 10
end
...etc...

So devinput is getting the button presses and they're being mapped to keys
like KEY_NUMERIC_0, KEY_PAUSE etc but MythTv frontend doesn't seem to be
registering these button presses. So what have I omitted that will fill in
the final piece of the jigsaw and get MythTV to respond? Is there another
config file somewhere I have to modify?

Regards,
Phill
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