Remote won't work with Xoro HST 260 (Amlogic S905X)

Hi there! I’ve just installed CoreELEC 21.2-Omega (Stable) on my Xoro HST 260 (Amlogic S905X with 2 GB RAM) which is working fine execpt for the remote control that came with the player. Since the Xoro is already listed under CoreELEC remotes on Github (and the picture shows a remote identical to mine), it appears to be a MesonIR remote, so I did a quick install of the files as suggested in the Quick Installation Guide of the Remotes Wiki:

copy KEYMAP file to /storage/.config/rc_keymaps
copy rc_maps.cfg to /storage/.config/

However, after a reboot the remote still would not work so I followed the steps of

  1. Meson IR: Creating a KEYMAP file from scratch

done by betatester3016 (who apparently also created the files I’d uploaded in step one so there was not much work to do creating the keymap). When I finished and loaded the keycode file

ir-keytable -a /storage/.config/rc_maps.cfg -s rc0

this message popped up:

/sys/class/rc/: No such file or directory
No devices found

Any idea what’s the reason this won’t work? Thanks!

When I get fully stuck I make a remote (gen.xml) file from the Kodi Keymap editor app. obtainable in the kodi repo.using the original remote.

I have also had success with RC6 remotes (ebay/alli express etc)

ex: Rc6 Media Center Remote for sale - eBay

Another way If no remote works I use an usb keyboard. They generally fire up ok on all builds. This lets you navigate the steps to do the above as required.

Without single log no one can actually say why remote is not working.

Start with

journalctl -l | paste

And if remote works for others then you probably copied files wrong.

copy XORO file to /storage/.config/rc_keymaps folder
copy rc_maps.cfg file to /storage/.config folder

directly in SSH

mkdir -p /storage/.config/rc_keymaps
wget -O /storage/.config/rc_keymaps/XORO "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CoreELEC/remotes/refs/heads/master/MesonIR/Xoro%20HST%20260/XORO"
wget -O /storage/.config/rc_maps.cfg "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CoreELEC/remotes/refs/heads/master/MesonIR/Xoro%20HST%20260/rc_maps.cfg"

check if files are there

ls -l /storage/.config/rc_keymaps/XORO
ls -l /storage/.config/rc_maps.cfg
cat /storage/.config/rc_keymaps/XORO
cat /storage/.config/rc_maps.cfg

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