@Ray @TheCoolest hi guys, so bit more investigation reveals that builds after the 14th of april are missing drivers/kernel options for the “Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver” and thus its currently not detected on boot. i am confident that the meson-ir receiver is (for the mce remote at least) troublesome, and therefore please (pretty please) would like to request that the mce receiver support be re-enabled for the next build. output from 14th of april showing mce ir receiver detected (i think the driver is mceusb):-
CoreELEC:~ # cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0471 Product=0815 Version=0000
N: Name="Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (0471:0815)"
P: Phys=usb-xhci-hcd.0.auto-1.2
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/ff500000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.0.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-
1.2:1.0/rc/rc3/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event4
B: PROP=0
B: EV=100013
B: KEY=fff 0 0 4200 108fc32e 2376051 0 0 0 7 158000 4192 40004801 9e96c0 0 0
10000000
B: MSC=10
output from builds after this date do not show the above so im stuck with meson-ir only 
i have tried crazycat drivers but no go, any chance of this being re-enabled? please?.