remote not working in kodi 17.1

[maelor]

"Back is now "del", for "menu" you have to press and hold "ok".
It is good to know the remote still works, just differently for now.....

Did they define how long "for now" will be?

[Phil181]

"Back is now "del", for "menu" you have to press and hold "ok".
It is good to know the remote still works, just differently for now.....

Did they define how long "for now" will be?

Until fixed from in Kodi (it is nothing HiMedia have done). 
It does not do this in SPMC (which uses Kodi 16 as a base) or any other software. 
Some have said a nightly 17.1 version fixed theirs.  So far, it has not fixed mine..... 

[DancesWithChickens]

Updated from 16.1 to latest nightly build, 17.2. RC1:


Wanna try it yourself, get it here:
http://mirrors.kodi.tv/nightlies/android/arm/Krypton/


So far no "controller found" message,
no crashes from music/party mode playback.

So far.

*crosses fingers

edit:
Got the dreaded controller message again after a restart, ffs Krypton.
The message immediately got triggered when i pressed the "return" button on the remote.
This will not change with future Kodi versions, so Himedia have to do sth about it with a future firmware update.

edit 2:
It seems to work if you update, but not with a fresh install.
I installed a fresh version of 16.1, set input settings for mouse/touch to OFF,
copied over my keymaps folder i had backuped, exited/restarted Kodi,
installed the 17.2 RC1 nightly - and now it works.
No controller message, no music crash.

[Binnugsay]

Updated from 16.1 to latest nightly build, 17.2. RC1:


Wanna try it yourself, get it here:
http://mirrors.kodi.tv/nightlies/android/arm/Krypton/


So far no "controller found" message,
no crashes from music/party mode playback.

So far.

*crosses fingers

edit:
Got the dreaded controller message again after a restart, ffs Krypton.
The message immediately got triggered when i pressed the "return" button on the remote.
This will not change with future Kodi versions, so Himedia have to do sth about it with a future firmware update.

edit 2:
It seems to work if you update, but not with a fresh install.
I installed a fresh version of 16.1, set input settings for mouse/touch to OFF,
copied over my keymaps folder i had backuped, exited/restarted Kodi,
installed the 17.2 RC1 nightly - and now it works.
No controller message, no music crash.

Hello DancesWithChickens,

Can you please sharing your Keymaps file to have test and see if we can use it. Thanks

[DancesWithChickens]

Can you please sharing your Keymaps file to have test and see if we can use it. Thanks

i'll do you one better and write a full guide.

[Binnugsay]

Can you please sharing your Keymaps file to have test and see if we can use it. Thanks

i'll do you one better and write a full guide.

 

[CookiePuss]

A guide would be appreciated. I finally took the plunge from 1.09 to the 1.10 firmware and decided to upgrade Kodi from 16.1 to 17.1 or 2 at the same time. First thing I noticed was the menu and back buttons didn't work. Glad to see this issue is known. I found that the del button was now back and thanks to this forum I know to hold the OK button for menu/info. It was driving me nuts not being able to access the menu button to add things to my favorites list. Now I'm afraid to update to Android 7--still using 5.1.

Android 5.1, Kodi 16.1, and firmware 1.09 everything worked great--I should've left well enough alone haha

[DancesWithChickens]

Guide:

http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=1849.0

[CookiePuss]

Thank you for taking the time to make that guide! You also solved another problem I noticed last night after upgrading. Every movie I tried to stream stuttered like crazy. I'll try disabling hardware acceleration like you mentioned in your guide.

I'm thinking of just going back to firmware 1.09/Kodi 16.1/Android 5.1 since that worked good for me. At least until Kodi and new firmware gets sorted. The only reason I upgraded was because Kodi had a message pop up saying everyone would have to upgrade to Kodi 17 since 16 doesn't support https protocol and would no longer support streaming.   

[DancesWithChickens]

i had some issues with streaming video addons as well, especially media libraries from tv stations.
They only work with Kodi 17.

[Phil181]

Simple fix has been posted in the related thread by @pcristi:

http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=1849.0

Disable Joystick Support in Kodi 17.1
Add-ons / My add-ons / Peripheral libraries / Joystick Support / Disable

Remote now working for me as it was 
[firmware 2.0.3 and Kodi 17.2RC]

[mikrocefal]

thank you phil181 , remote is ok now