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I have a NUC set up with Ubuntu 19.10 desktop and try to control it with Harmony Hub over Bluetooth (was the only option that I found in the messy harmony menu). Navigation works well, (even sound control in on the computer which I obviously don't use), but the play pause ffw keys don't. I have tried the playing around with dconf-editor with no luck, and Kodi MPRIS pluggin which just gives error.

Any advice?

I run Kodi disabling Pulse and running through ALSA if that makes any difference. I moved to Linux on a NUC for my media center experience, since I can setup all media systems on the same computer, (snapclient, chromium, and Kodi) and get a good sound. (Pi4 does not support HD Sound properly, and windows don't support snapclient)

Paul
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Fixed! :-)

Was a gnome feature blocking the keys. Found it after ages of searching ask.ubuntu and trial en error:

  • Check the keys with: sudo showkey -k
  • Then you need to change the keys in gnome:
  • Install the visual key editor: dconf-editor
  • Navigate to org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys
  • Remove the default values and replace with ['']
  • Then you need to change it in one more place:
  • Find the keys that you need that have default values: gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys | grep thekey
  • Blank the keys with: conf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/thekey "''"
  • Check which keys have been set: /etc/systemd/system/cockpit.socket.d/listen.conf
  • reboot

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Paul
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    If other apps already work with the media keys, does this solution have any side-effects for them? – Andreas Jul 01 '20 at 22:10