Xiaomi Mi BOX Bluetooth remote help

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#1

I’ve purchased a cheap Xiaomi Mi BOX Bluetooth remote:-

remote
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However I’m having problems getting it to work. It connects fine via bluetooth but CoreELEC seems to think it’s a game controller:-

connect
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And when I try cat /proc/bus/input/devices it’s not listed.

I: Bus=0010 Vendor=1b8e Product=0cec Version=0001
N: Name="cec_input"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: PROP=0
B: EV=3
B: KEY=1 0 0 0 0 100000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="meson-ir"
P: Phys=meson-ir/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/ff808040.meson-ir/rc/rc0/input4
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 10000ffc
B: MSC=10

Anybody have any ideas how to get this remote working? Thanks.

#2

Does anybody have any ideas why this remote is detected as a game controller and not a remote?

#3

You’ll need a udev rule like this stored under /storage/.config/udev.rules.d:

The rule assigns the remote to the hid-generic driver instead of the default controller driver.

This is for my the bundled remote for my mibox 3, however, and you’ll need to adapt the ATTR{HID_ID} and the ID being echoed according to your actual device. You should be able to figure out yours by using udevadm monitor.

#4

Thanks for the reply.

I’ve run udevadm monitor and when I connect the remote I get this response:-

UDEV [60999.434417] add /devices/platform/ff500000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.0.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:65 (bluetooth)

Which part of that is the ID?

I can also run bluetoothctl and it returns the following info for the remote:-

CoreELEC:~ # bluetoothctl
Agent registered
[CHG] Device B4:20:5B:A5:C2:5C RSSI: -84
[Xiaomi RC]# info
Device DC:E5:33:31:BB:40 (public)
        Name: Xiaomi RC
        Alias: Xiaomi RC
        Class: 0x00000504
        Icon: input-gaming
        Paired: yes
        Bonded: yes
        Trusted: yes
        Blocked: no
        Connected: yes
        LegacyPairing: no
        ManufacturerData Key: 0x0000
        RSSI: -46
        TxPower: 0

But again I don’t know the ID.