Got it fixed with the old magic solution of rebooting the computer :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_closed_eyes:

I had reloaded the MM and restarted it a couple of times but would not load, but after a restart its working now

Thanks

SOLVED

I finally figured out why MMM-Keybindings was not seeing the remote, after looking at some logs from pm2 I saw some errors reporting no permission to open /dev/input/btremote (which points to /dev/input/event6)

After further troubleshooting, I saw that the MM process in PM2 for some reason was not running as root

I recreated the pm2 startup script pm2 startup and that fixed the permissions and now MMM-Keybindings sees the remote clicks no problem.

thought to post in case this could help someone with same problem