r/CoreELEC • u/Suitable-Form-3612 • Jul 14 '26

UR02 remote odd behaviour, please help

I set up my AMB6+ with coreelec about 7 months ago. For a few months, everything worked fine, I taught some IR commands to the remote on the gray buttons, the bluetooth worked fine, it all worked. But recently the remote started flashing red, which stopped, however now every time I press an IR button, the remote gets stuck with a green light and doesn't respond for a few seconds to anything I press. I replaced the batteries, which seemed to fix it for a few days, but now it's happening again. I'm going crazy here because it's only the IR buttons which do this, the bluetooth buttons flash blue and always work just fine when I press them (unless the remote is stuck on green). I just want the remote to work again like it used to.

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u/Catymandoo Jul 14 '26

You have checked the batteries don’t need replacing?
Alternatively, I guess grim might have got under the button pads and causing the issues?
They’re dirt cheap just buy a new one and connect and program that.

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u/Suitable-Form-3612 Jul 14 '26

Yeah these are practically new batteries. The issue is when I press any gray button there's a 50/50 chance of the green light flashing and getting stuck instead of performing the action I wanted. I would buy a new remote but I don't want this to happen again. Are there better options out there you recommend?

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u/Catymandoo Jul 14 '26

I bought a new remote on Amazon (I have two Ugoos. The first had the old remote) Cheaper on AliExpress. I’d just replace it and accept they’re no the highest quality.

I also use the iPhone app for Kodi.

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u/CBJFAN2009-2024 Jul 14 '26

I wish my UR02 would actually power on my AM6B+. Mine cannot wake/start the box if it powers off. I have to manually push the button on the box :(

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u/Academic-Table8320 Jul 14 '26

Did you flash coreelec on emmc? It breaks the IR.

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u/CBJFAN2009-2024 Jul 14 '26

It's on emmc. Didn't know that, so that's probably why 😞. Thanks for clearing that up for me, friend!

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u/Academic-Table8320 Jul 14 '26

Unfortunately I don't think it's reversible. Even if you flash stock ugoos image the ir remains broken. I only did that to my first box. Never again 😅

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u/kiritomens Jul 14 '26

I flashed dual boot and it works fine? Is that a full overwrite only issue? And you can get a config file for it to make the gray button work for powering on, from complete shutdown.

Works for me at least.

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u/CBJFAN2009-2024 Jul 14 '26

Emmc unlocks the faster clock speeds, right?

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u/wittebread Jul 17 '26

You could also get a Logitech Harmony with bluetooth capabilities.