2009-01-03, 09:53 PM
Hi Guys,
GBPVR has been working GREAT for us! But as with everything in life there was a couple things we thought would be nice if we could change them.
Customizing a remote control is well covered but there was some tweaking available beyond reassigning keys that we've discovered ("we", as in my son and I).
The problem with reassigning keys is that those reassignments affect all the modules in GBPVR, so if you reassign the up/down buttons for example it may be difficult to navigate the menus.
We have the Hauppauge 1062 MCE remotes and they aren't backlit so when sitting in the dark watching TV sometimes it's a bit hard to find the proper keys - especially the skip forward and back keys. We use those a lot as we played with the commercial skip and found it more bother to setup and refine than it was to just set the skip forward to 30 seconds and the skip backwards to 10 seconds - now it's a breeze to skip the commercials and you're sure you're not missing anything.
Anyway, the things we do most often are turn the volume up/down, skip forward/backward, pause, and mute.
The 1062, like most MCE remotes, has a left/right/up/down/OK keypad on it so we thought it would be nice if we could make that key pad do our most commonly used functions as those keys are big and easy to find in the dark. The volume was already there on the left/right keys. Looking at it we decided to try and assign the skip forward to the up key, skip backward to the down key, and pause to the OK button. Mute we decided to leave alone as it's big and just two keys straight down from the pad.
We got to poking around and found you could do some tweaking on the remote commands by modifying the xml file for the specific modules that are in the KeyMappings folder.
We backed up our VideoPlayer.xml file, then opened it up with Notepad and made the following changes, then saved the file and started up GBPVR and WahLah! The remote was doing exactly what we wanted it to do!
(I put the changes in red bold italics, but of course when you open the file in Notepad you wont be able to, nor want to, do that - just enter the extra lines and save and exit as normal)
Just thought we'd pass it along as we're finding it very useful!
Take Care, hope everyone is having a GREAT New year!
Steve
<mappings>
<command name="VIDEO_SUBTITLES" key="^Y"/>
<command name="VIDEO_OSD" key="^B"/>
<command name="VIDEO_MENU" key="Home"/>
<command name="VIDEO_ASPECT_RATIO" key="F7"/>
<command name="VIDEO_ESCAPE" key="Escape"/>
<command name="VIDEO_CATCH_UP" key="^O"/>
<command name="VIDEO_ENTER" key="Enter"/>
<command name="VIDEO_FASTFORWARD" key="^F"/>
<command name="VIDEO_REWIND" key="^D"/>
<command name="VIDEO_SKIP_FORWARDS" key="^Right"/>
<command name="VIDEO_SKIP_FORWARDS" key="Up"/>
<command name="VIDEO_SKIP_BACKWARDS" key="^Left"/>
<command name="VIDEO_SKIP_BACKWARDS" key="Down"/>
<command name="VIDEO_PAUSE" key="^Q"/>
<command name="VIDEO_PAUSE" key="Enter"/>
<command name="VIDEO_PLAY" key="^P"/>
<command name="VIDEO_STOP" key="^S"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VIDEO_PLUGIN" key="F11"/>
<command name="VIDEO_TV_GUIDE" key="F1"/>
<command name="VIDEO_MAKE_THUMBNAIL" key="^T"/>
<command name="VIDEO_AUDIO_CHANNEL" key="^G"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VOLUME_UP" key="Add"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VOLUME_UP" key="Right"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VOLUME_DOWN" key="Subtract"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VOLUME_DOWN" key="Left"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VOLUME_UP" key="Oemplus"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VOLUME_DOWN" key="OemMinus"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VOLUME_MUTE" key="^M"/>
<command name="VIDEO_STATS" key="^O"/>
</mappings>
GBPVR has been working GREAT for us! But as with everything in life there was a couple things we thought would be nice if we could change them.
Customizing a remote control is well covered but there was some tweaking available beyond reassigning keys that we've discovered ("we", as in my son and I).
The problem with reassigning keys is that those reassignments affect all the modules in GBPVR, so if you reassign the up/down buttons for example it may be difficult to navigate the menus.
We have the Hauppauge 1062 MCE remotes and they aren't backlit so when sitting in the dark watching TV sometimes it's a bit hard to find the proper keys - especially the skip forward and back keys. We use those a lot as we played with the commercial skip and found it more bother to setup and refine than it was to just set the skip forward to 30 seconds and the skip backwards to 10 seconds - now it's a breeze to skip the commercials and you're sure you're not missing anything.
Anyway, the things we do most often are turn the volume up/down, skip forward/backward, pause, and mute.
The 1062, like most MCE remotes, has a left/right/up/down/OK keypad on it so we thought it would be nice if we could make that key pad do our most commonly used functions as those keys are big and easy to find in the dark. The volume was already there on the left/right keys. Looking at it we decided to try and assign the skip forward to the up key, skip backward to the down key, and pause to the OK button. Mute we decided to leave alone as it's big and just two keys straight down from the pad.
We got to poking around and found you could do some tweaking on the remote commands by modifying the xml file for the specific modules that are in the KeyMappings folder.
We backed up our VideoPlayer.xml file, then opened it up with Notepad and made the following changes, then saved the file and started up GBPVR and WahLah! The remote was doing exactly what we wanted it to do!
(I put the changes in red bold italics, but of course when you open the file in Notepad you wont be able to, nor want to, do that - just enter the extra lines and save and exit as normal)
Just thought we'd pass it along as we're finding it very useful!
Take Care, hope everyone is having a GREAT New year!
Steve
<mappings>
<command name="VIDEO_SUBTITLES" key="^Y"/>
<command name="VIDEO_OSD" key="^B"/>
<command name="VIDEO_MENU" key="Home"/>
<command name="VIDEO_ASPECT_RATIO" key="F7"/>
<command name="VIDEO_ESCAPE" key="Escape"/>
<command name="VIDEO_CATCH_UP" key="^O"/>
<command name="VIDEO_ENTER" key="Enter"/>
<command name="VIDEO_FASTFORWARD" key="^F"/>
<command name="VIDEO_REWIND" key="^D"/>
<command name="VIDEO_SKIP_FORWARDS" key="^Right"/>
<command name="VIDEO_SKIP_FORWARDS" key="Up"/>
<command name="VIDEO_SKIP_BACKWARDS" key="^Left"/>
<command name="VIDEO_SKIP_BACKWARDS" key="Down"/>
<command name="VIDEO_PAUSE" key="^Q"/>
<command name="VIDEO_PAUSE" key="Enter"/>
<command name="VIDEO_PLAY" key="^P"/>
<command name="VIDEO_STOP" key="^S"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VIDEO_PLUGIN" key="F11"/>
<command name="VIDEO_TV_GUIDE" key="F1"/>
<command name="VIDEO_MAKE_THUMBNAIL" key="^T"/>
<command name="VIDEO_AUDIO_CHANNEL" key="^G"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VOLUME_UP" key="Add"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VOLUME_UP" key="Right"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VOLUME_DOWN" key="Subtract"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VOLUME_DOWN" key="Left"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VOLUME_UP" key="Oemplus"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VOLUME_DOWN" key="OemMinus"/>
<command name="VIDEO_VOLUME_MUTE" key="^M"/>
<command name="VIDEO_STATS" key="^O"/>
</mappings>