Sorry portisch, my snafu I’m afraid, misread and joined several lines from the reboot, as they went by so fast, caught the end of enabled and interpreted it as bl30… along with ‘remote toggle’ which enforced the on/off link with the remote wake up, device tree, was the locate and copy of meson-g12a-4gb-dtb.
the new? lines I saw and mistook were after the boot files line, in image attached.
The install had had update from 0803 to 1408, so reformatted and fresh install of 1608 nightly with remote config and keymaps, adam said were ok, but still no joy the supplied remote still does not work, ir-keytable -t with kodi and eventlirc stopped still displays nothing, but ir-keytable -t -u, returns the remotewakeup codes as previously described.
on side note, tried briefly LibreELEC-AMLG12.arm-9.80-devel-20190724161814-893dd58-s905x2, and remote works in that, but not LAN, but prefer coreelec so went back to it.
Again my apologies