These don't work by default - until the options screen is triggered; which is somewhat annoying - particularly since the option is set to 'true' by default.
Pushed a fix, I'd appreciated a cherry-pick to -4-0 :-)
Michael Meeks committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-0": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=a04171c9e982e3358044b48f2da7fe3bf1fa4c4f&h=libreoffice-4-0 fdo#60487 - sdremote - load default preferences eg. volume control switch. It will be available in LibreOffice 4.0.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Michael Meeks committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=a75aeb5cefd338d44dd36a8892e63c1095c71273 fdo#60487 - sdremote - load default preferences eg. volume control switch. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.