|. Facts
II. Steps by Steps
III. Trouble shooting
I. Facts
- Any IR remote (NEC protocol) can be used on android 9 based atvXperience; (Most remotes sold on amazon or aliexpress are NEC IR remote.)
- atvXperience support multiple remotes simultaneously;
In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how to add any IR remote to TV boxes with atvXperience and make it work easily by yourself.
Googling a configuration file is not recommended since the file could be using Key_codesdefined totally different even the scan_codes are correct.
First of all, I will make it short for experienced users, then I will explain step by step for fresh players.
3 Steps to make a remote work on TV box with atvXperience (android 9 based.)
A. Find, edit or make the right configuration file for the remote in the proper format;(see further details below)
B. Put it under /vendor/etc , name it as remote.tab5 following 4 remote.tabx files already there; (file name does not matter at all as long as it is properly configured into the core service)
C. Configure it with /vendor/bin/remotecfg with root by executing
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$ /vendor/bin/remotecfg -c /vendor/etc/remote.cfg -t /vendor/etc/remote.tab5II. Steps by steps
1. The format of the remote configuration file
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## Amlogic NEC remote
custom_name = remote-df00 # Any name is OK; Including device code is recommended for debug reason
custom_code = 0xdf00 # df00 is the device code; prefix with "0x"
release_delay = 80
fn_key_scancode = 0x03 # MOUSE
cursor_left_scancode = 0x47 # LEFT
cursor_right_scancode = 0x07 # RIGHT
Cursor_up_scancode = 0x1a # UP
Cursor_down_scancode = 0x48 # DOWN
Cursor_ok_scancode = 0x06 # OK
mouse_begin
0 0x47 # LEFT
1 0x07 # RIGHT
2 0x1a # UP
3 0x48 # DOWN
mouse_end
key_begin
## BASIC TV CONTROL
0x1c 116 # POWER
0x5c 114 # VOLUME_DOWN (VOL-)
0x5d 115 # VOLUME_UP (VOL+)
0xf3 113 # MUTE (KBUTTON)
## DAPD and FUNCTION KEYS
0x47 105 # LEFT
0x07 106 # RIGHT
0x1a 103 # UP
0x48 108 # DOWN
0x06 97 # ENTER (OK)
0x0a 1 # RETURN or BACK
0x42 102 # HOME
0x18 139 # MENU
0x4b 121 # REWIND |<<
0x4f 120 # FORWARD >>|
0x01 119 # PLAY PAUSE
0x5f 62 # HELP
0x41 20 # WEB EXPLORER
## NUMBERS
0x54 2 # 1
0x16 3 # 2
0x15 4 # 3
0x50 5 # 4
0x12 6 # 5
0x11 7 # 6
0x4c 8 # 7
0x0e 9 # 8
0x0d 10 # 9
0x0c 11 # 0
repeat_key_begin
## ADD MORE IF YOU WANT
## USUALLY ONLY FOLLOWING KEYS NEED REPEAT
0x47 105 # LEFT
0x07 106 # RIGHT
0x1a 103 # UP
0x48 108 # DOWN
0x5c 114 # VOLUMEDOWN (VOL-)
0x5d 115 # VOLUMEUP (VOL+)
repeat_key_end
key_end
A. custom_code the device code the unique ID of the remote which you have to find out (see below)
B. scan_code The first column in the key section and any other 0x?? code are called scan_code. The NEC protocol translate the physical IR signal into the code that is received by TV box and Linux core;
C. key_code The second column in the key section are called key_code, each key_code correspond to a action or event which is defined by the keylayout file (.kl) under /vendor/usr/keylayout
D. The above remote configuration file must accompanied with a remote.cfg file which is already included in atvXperience under /vendor/etc
2. How to find the device code and scan_code by yourself
This is the most reliable way to make a correct configuration file for a remote and it is strongly recommended to do by yourself.
(To be working on)
3. How to upload the configuration file into the TV box and put it under /vendor/etc
(To be working on)
4. How to run linux command to configure the remote without using developer's adb tool
(To be working on)
III. Trouble shooting
I will add discussion here. Feel free to ask questions related to remote here.
