# DVB-T remote control **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [January 23, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/dvb-t-remote-control/6994 "2018-01-23T22:53:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![procount](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@procount](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/procount)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/dvb-t-remote-control/6994/1 "2018-01-23T22:53:27Z")
Ahoy pirates! I bought your DVB-T dongle (black one) about a year ago, but couldn’t get it to work, so I left it. Now I’ve had another go and connected it to a proper aerial via an MCX to Coax pigtail and have finally had success at viewing TV channels in LibreELEC/Kodi using TVHeadend. (I guess the supplied aerial hasn’t got enough gain for my area). Anyway, the DVB-T dongle comes with an Infra-Red remote control. Can you tell me if the dongle has a built-in IR-Receiver that it works with, or do I have to add one to the Pi itself? At the moment it doesn’t seem to do anything. I tried adding “dtoverlay=lirc-rpi” to /flash/config.txt and rebooting, but it still didn’t do anything. Is there any other configuration or Addon I need to use? (I also tried Xbian and OSMC but LibreElec was the only one I managed to get TVHeadEnd working in). Thanks. EDIT: I discovered the dongle does have an IR receiver exposed as /dev/lirc0, So now I just have to work out how to use lirc to configure it. ---
**Author:** ![gadgetoid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/gadgetoid/32/13_2.png) [@gadgetoid](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/gadgetoid)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/dvb-t-remote-control/6994/2 "2018-01-24T10:47:01Z")
It’s been a loooooonnnng time since I used lirc to configure an IR remote, I’d be keen to know how you get on. I, too, couldn’t get digital TV channels with any stability in my area- probably the big metal roof on our apartment building. It’s a pretty weedy aerial! ---
**Author:** ![procount](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@procount](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/procount)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 11:12am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/dvb-t-remote-control/6994/3 "2018-01-24T11:12:23Z")
Further research suggests I shouldn’t need lirc as support is built into the kernel/Kodi now. It’s just taken me a while to find the right documentation. Hopefully I will have the remote working soon. ---
**Author:** ![alphanumeric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/alphanumeric/32/2729_2.png) [@alphanumeric](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/alphanumeric)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 12:35pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/dvb-t-remote-control/6994/4 "2018-01-24T12:35:40Z")
The last dongle I bough had a remote and the receiver was built into it. I never used the remote though. I used that dongle for a software defined radio setup to listen to HF and VHF aircraft coms. Best guess is the dongle sends what amounts to the media key commands of a USB keyboard. Have a look see here, [https://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/robots/controlling-your-robot-wireless-keyboard](https://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/robots/controlling-your-robot-wireless-keyboard) I’ve used that procedure to check what codes a remote control sends out. Look for the dongle in the list when you run sudo lsusb ---
**Author:** ![procount](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@procount](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/procount)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 10:37am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/dvb-t-remote-control/6994/5 "2018-01-25T10:37:56Z")
So here is what I did to get the remote working with LibreElec, by ssh’ing into it. 1. Create a file called `pimoroni_remote` in /storage/.config/rc\_keymaps as follows: The first columm is the scan codes generated by the different buttons. the next column is the Linux key code you want it to generate. I have arbitrarily mapped these at the moment, until I understand better what keys are useful for TV viewing. Change as you want. The comment after the # is just a note of what the remote key is. 1. Create a file called `rc_maps.cfg` in /storage/.config as follows: `* * pimoroni_remote` This tells it to load the above remote control key map file for all devices. 1. Create a file called `autostart.sh` in /storage/.config/ as follows: This script tells it to autoload whatever keymaps it finds at startup. For more information, see [https://wiki.libreelec.tv/infrared\_remotes?s](https://wiki.libreelec.tv/infrared_remotes?s) ---
**Author:** ![alphanumeric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/alphanumeric/32/2729_2.png) [@alphanumeric](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/alphanumeric)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/dvb-t-remote-control/6994/6 "2018-01-25T12:31:37Z")
Nicely done. Insert large thumbs up smiley here. =) Copied and saved for future reference.