What can't XNEWA do?

[BrettB]

I am a huge fan of wireless USB and BT keyboards with Kodi, so I just use Alt + Colour.

For the colour buttons on a remote it will depend on your remote, your OS and your Kodi keymap.xml Hit the colour buttons on the remote and post the kodi log file and I can see if the colours are coming in by name.

I attached a kodi log file. I played an episode of The Middle and all went fine. Then when it was done, I tried using the keyboard and doing an Alt-B (which displayed an error saying no PVR add-in was configured), and Alt-Y, Alt-G, and Alt-R (each of which didn't appear to do anything).

For my remote, I'm using a Harmony 650 and I configured a Windows Media Center SE remote (which has the 4 color buttons). With it, when I got the following:

1. Blue=Goes to Kodi Pictures
   
2. Yellow=Goes to Kodi Music
   
3. Green=Goes to Kodi Videos
   
4. Red=Kodi error that no PVR clients have been started
   

As far as I know, I'm using the standard OpenELEC distribution for the rPi with the only configuration change being the substitutions to get it use smb: to access recordings rather than http: streaming. I haven't (at least that I know of) done anything with key mapping.

[mvallevand]

Sorry I forget to mention that I need debug logs.

Defintely working here

19:10:47 T:3300 DEBUG: CInputManager::OnKey: alt-g (0x4f047) pressed, action is
19:10:47 T:1284 NOTICE: True
19:10:47 T:1284 NOTICE: http://172.16.3.2:8866/control?time=1431...e4165bdd7L

It looks like you might have a problem with your advancedsetttings.xml too

19:01:42 T:1677718592 NOTICE: F:/NPVR Recordings3/The Middle/The Middle.S06E23.Mother's Day Reservations.ts
19:01:42 T:1677718592 NOTICE: not found

Martin

[BrettB]

Sorry I forget to mention that I need debug logs.

Defintely working here

19:10:47 T:3300 DEBUG: CInputManager::OnKey: alt-g (0x4f047) pressed, action is
19:10:47 T:1284 NOTICE: True
19:10:47 T:1284 NOTICE: http://172.16.3.2:8866/control?time=1431...e4165bdd7L

OK, I turned on debugging. See the attached kodi.log. It looks like the mini-keyboard that I'm using isn't sending the Alt- key combinations correctly. They seem to be showing up as key "0" followed by "b", "y", "g", "r". The color buttons from the remote do seem to be seen ok, but they appear to be mapped to other functions. So I probably just need to setup some sort of key mapping for them.

It looks like you might have a problem with your advancedsetttings.xml too

19:01:42 T:1677718592 NOTICE: F:/NPVR Recordings3/The Middle/The Middle.S06E23.Mother's Day Reservations.ts
19:01:42 T:1677718592 NOTICE: not found

Humm... I recently added a 3rd disk for recordings. It seems like the advancedsettings mapping for NPVR Recordings2 is working, but the one for NPVR Recordings3 isn't. (And consequently, comskip .edl files are being used for recordings in NPVR Recordings2, but not NPVR Recordings3.) I don't see anything different about the entries in advancedsettings.xml, but I'll investigate further.

Thanks!

- Brett

[mvallevand]

For the remote colours yes I think you might just need to edit keymaps.xml file from what looks like OE specific defaults to alt letter pairs. I'll check on OE this weekend to see if mine eats the alt key modifier. Thanks for the logs they do really help answer most questions.

Martin

[BrettB]

For the remote colours yes I think you might just need to edit keymaps.xml file from what looks like OE specific defaults to alt letter pairs. I'll check on OE this weekend to see if mine eats the alt key modifier. Thanks for the logs they do really help answer most questions.

Martin,

I tried another keyboard, and the Alt- key combinations are working to set the colored dots. Yeah!

However, I'm not having any luck getting it to work from the remote. I put the following in the remote.xml file:

Code:

<keymap>
  <global>
    <remote>
      <red>Notification(key, r, 3)</red>
      <green>Green</green>
      <yellow>Yellow</yellow>
      <blue>Blue</blue>
    </remote>
  </global>
</keymap>

And it will display the notification window when the red button is pressed. But, I can not find any "Action" to put in the .xml file which will simulate a keypress (other than the numbers 0-9). So, I can't get it to translate to an Alt-R. Any ideas?

- Brett

[mvallevand]

What if you don't override the colours and just comment them out and see what web client does?

Martin

[BrettB]

What if you don't override the colours and just comment them out and see what web client does?

If I don't override the color buttons in the remote section, then the Kodi defaults are used:

Code:

<keymap>
  <global>
    <remote>
{extra stuff cut}
      <red>ActivateWindow(TVChannels)</red>
      <green>ActivateWindow(MyVideos)</green>
      <yellow>ActivateWindow(MyMusic)</yellow>
      <blue>ActivateWindow(MyPictures)</blue>
{extra stuff cut}
    </remote>
  </global>
</keymap>

In the attached debug log, I removed the <yellow> override from my remote.xml file. Then went in and tried pressing the buttons. (See 12:19:53 in the log.)

1. Pressed Red: Notification action from my override comes up
   
2. Pressed Yellow: My Music (from Kodi default) comes up
   
3. Pressed Back: Left My Music back to X-NEWA
   
4. Pressed Blue: No visible action
   
5. Pressed Green: No visible action
   

- Brett

[mvallevand]

I will need to try on my Chromebox over the weekend What if you set it to noop?

Martin

[mvallevand]

Unfortunately my Hauppauge MCE remote doesn't have colour buttons, I'd have to map the "My" buttons.

Martin