Panasonic remote doesn’t generate events

[OMGDirkOMGMember]

I have recently purchased a Cubox-i4 pro and have successfully installed Geexbox Gotham into it (XBMC 13.1, as shown in Settings-System info-Summary). The small problems that I had I solved using mostly the resources on this forum and the wiki of solid-run.

I am however not able to generate events with my remote (Panasonic EUR7651120) on Cubox. I have tried several possible fixes and I will try to sum them up.

First, using this guide, i ran:

systemctl stop eventlircd.service
 systemctl stop xbmc.service
 ir-keytable -t
 Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort.
 ^C

Upon pressing several buttons on my remote for longer than 2s, no events were generated.

Second, i tried this guide, which yielded:

# /etc/init.d/lirc stop
-sh: /etc/init.d/lirc: not found

Finally I tried different protocols as suggested here.

# systemctl stop eventlircd.service
# systemctl stop xbmc.service
# ir-keytable -p nec
Protocols changed to NEC 
# ir-keytable -t
Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort.
^C
# ir-keytable -p rc-5
Protocols changed to RC-5 
# ir-keytable -t
Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort.
^C
# ir-keytable -p rc-6
Protocols changed to RC-6 
# ir-keytable -t
Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort.
^C
# ir-keytable -p jvc
Protocols changed to JVC 
# ir-keytable -t
Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort.
^C
# ir-keytable -p sony
Protocols changed to SONY 
# ir-keytable -t
Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort.
^C
# ir-keytable -p sanyo
Protocols changed to SANYO 
# ir-keytable -t
Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort.
^C
# ir-keytable -p rc-5-sz
Protocols changed to RC-5-SZ 
# ir-keytable -t
Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort.
^C

Any idea how to solve this problem? Is there any additional information that I need to provide?

Thanks in advance for any help!

[socholoMember]

I struggled with the same thing trying to use my Panasonic TV remote. If that remote is for a Panasonic device (as opposed to some universal remote), then, AFAIK, Panasonic doesn’t use one of the supported protocols; they apparently have their own protocol.

I gave up on my idea to use my Panasonic remote and went with a universal remote whose auxiliary device I configured to emulate a Windows Media Center remote. The remote then used an RC-6 protocol made all of the stuff you’re doing above from the wiki work right away for me.

[OMGDirkOMGMember]

Thanks for the tip, I’ve ordered a universal remote control (URC 6440, € 25,-) and will use it to control both my TV and Cubox. I assume this will solve the problem, but I’ll post the results here when I’ve set it up.

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