My remote works fine when im running off the SD card with the remote.conf on the root of the card. But once I install to internal, the remote stops working. Ive never seen this happen before. Even after loading dozens of boxes with LibreElec it works, but not with CoreElec.
I’ve been using LE for years. And all I had to do was drop the remote.conf in the root of SD and ssh into the box and run installtointernal command in terminal. That would put the OS onto the box with a working remote.
So I tried the exact same thing with CE and the remote works when running off the card. But not after its installed on internal.
Box I’m using is Tronsmart s95x
S905x chip. 2g ram.
Like I said CE is not LE, you would not compare MacOS to Windows.
LE copies your entire memory card to internal including junk files that may exist on your memory card.
CE copies only what is necessary to the fat partition because it’s not as accessible as it was when you was running from a memory card or USB stick once you run installtointernal, which is the kernel, the OS, and the device tree.
If you had saved your remote in the Config folder like @bubblegum57 had suggested which is where it’s supposed to reside then it would have been copied when you ran installtointernal.