Streamzap

Getting the Streamzap USB remote to work with Kodi under Linux is fairly straight forward.

Update Jan/2023

My recommended method for using this remote with Kodi is no longer via lirc. Doing so presents disconnects in functionality running kodi-x11 vs kodi-gbm. The most general implementation for using this remote with Kodi, is to allow the kernel driver to see it as a keyboard, not a remote, and to adjust the keymapping to suit Kodi.

• The really old (details for mythtv, mplayer, other) has been archived in streamzap/old for those interested.
• The method using lirc (works fine for x11 but not for gbm) has been archived in streamzap/lirc for those interested.

Setup

• On Arch/Arch ARM, install the v4l-utils package.
• Users of other distros may also need to install the ir-keytable package (Ubuntu has this requirement).
• Place kodi/keyboard.xml into ~/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/
• Place streamzap.toml into /etc/rc_keymaps/
• Modify /etc/rc_maps.cfg so the streamzap line points to /etc/rc_keymaps/streamzap.toml

# *  rc-streamzap             streamzap.toml
* rc-streamzap             /etc/rc_keymaps/streamzap.local

• First time setup only: reboot your system or re-initialize the keycode mapping to use the custom file:

# ir-keytable -c -w /etc/rc_keymaps/streamzap.toml

• THERE IS NO NEED TO RUN LIRC AT ALL so disable lircd in your init system if you previously had it enabled.

Optional setup/custom script

• Optionally place kodi/audio_switch/audio_switch.py in ~/bin/ (note you likely need to edit the code to match your system, see the thread in the comments of the file).
• Optionally place the two suggested icons into ~ as shown in the script.

On the homescreen/library

In video playback

Supplemental info

Kodi upstream links

• keyboard.xml
• remote.xml
• List of built-in function