jellevanwezel/rasplex_remote

Rasplex Remote

I use an Onkyo receiver and wanted to control Rasplex with its remote. The behavior should be supported by Rasplex for a whole range of remotes but not for mine. Frustrated with any documentation on how to fix this problem I decided to fix it myself. Rasplex supplies an executable called cec-client, which listens to the cec input through HDMI from an outside source. I enabled cec passthrough on my receiver and when I started the cec-client the commands from my remote showed in the terminal. The script autostart.sh in .config pipes this output to the remote.py python script.

The autostart.sh should be placed in /storage/.config/ such that Rasplex will start in on bootup.

The remote.py parses the commands from the cec-client and send a jsonrpc command to Rasplex.

More documentation about how to use jsonrpc for Rasplex can be found here: https://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v8. (Rasplex is an altered version of Kodi) When tweaking this software for use with your own remote, you should probably alter the key_map and params_map variables. They are key:value where the key is parsed from the cec-client input and the value the command or parameters I wanted to send to Rasplex.