Homatics Box R 4K Plus

My remote is not from Dune but from Homatics. I dont think is the same even if they look the same.

So they must be very reliable. What about ATV you use flirc also overthere?

All remotes from homatics, dune just sell them, all have homatics logo too, just the color other. :wink:

Ok, but that doesn’t really respond my question, meaning why the version in CE menu doesn’t show actual version on the box? Mine has downloaded couple nightly updates (box rebooted) and it still shows as 20230816.
Is this a bug?

It is shown as B25 in CE menu under BT tab. Starts with D0:1B:1F:6B.

There , you can too, but in Atv the bluetooth works fine. Practically in the Atv, the bluetooth remote paired, when you reboot to coreelec, there not paired, and the remote works with flirc in IR mode. You can see, when the remote flashing green , that bluetooth mode, when red, than IR mode. No more pairing process required.

Fine. will try asap. Thank you

Yeah,managed to test the Homatics (white) B25 and it doesn’t work with CE.

After pairing it successfully ,there no event created in /dev/input/ ,so no wonder that it doesn’t work .

After Googling a bit,i did found some similar situations and it seem to point at bluez,but can’t say for sure.

and if you do as I wrote in Homatics Box R 4K Plus - #1591 by vpeter does it work then?

@vpeter nope,stays dead as a rock ,no response at all .
I also tested on LE11,same outcome .

I did saw an authentication error once ,in bluetoothctl ,but probably was just triggered by a failed pairing .

Another odd behavior is that it seems to re-connect automatically after pressing “disconnect” in the Bluetooth menu.

Then try to delete remote from CE settings, reboot CE, pair again. I’m sure it will work eventually :frowning:

Did that a few times already ,from CE BT menu and from bluetooth cmd,no dice,this remote is a ghost . :slight_smile:

Will have to try on my Linux laptop ,to see at least if it works there .

In terminal

bluetoothctl scan on

and check if it appears after pressing button.

Yeah ,it appears just fine and can be paired and removed just fine with bluetoothctl ,but still no input device is created .

Just tested and surprisingly ,this B25 it works with my LG G2 tv,only OK ,BACK and another few buttons aren’t working (just as it happens with B19 and B21 on CE).

I concur, I just got my Rocktek G2 and the remote is just totally SOL, it shows up as “Paired” but no luck after that. The latest nightly from 2 days ago totally broke it and Bluetooth was initially saying it was disabled. Now Bluetooth works, but the remote even if it is paired doesn’t control at all. Please let me know if any debug is needed.

@vpeter after the latest CE21 nightly ,the Homatics B25 started to work .
Of course ,it still needs the correct hwdb,because several buttons aren’t working .

Will try, but the audio passtrough reverts always to spdf not hdmi. And in hdmi only ac3 is available.
pretorian which is the correct hwdb?

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If someone share the hwdb file it can be included in CE image itself.

is DV working in CE 21? I was under impression there are issues with DV, so I rather installed 20.3 nightly.

It was working till yesterday. Not tried yet after the last nightly update.