Remapping keys in Clientstore

[something_fishy]

I am just getting to grips with key remaps in the clientstore.xml files. 
I think that I am getting the hang of it however a successful remap generates an Android notification bubble.

I am using a Harmony hub based remote to control an NVidia Shield. The clientstore file shows that nine of the remote keys are not recognised: KeyCode-F1 to KeyCode-F9. I can remap these in the clientstore as expected. For example:

Code:

<KeyCode-F7>112</KeyCode-F7>

So that:  Remote button "Guide" -> Keycode-F7 -> F1 (.net code 112) -> Display TV guide

This works, Uidroid displays the TV guide. However the ShieldTV is displaying a notification bubble with

KEYCODE_F7 65 137

Displayed for around 2 seconds (image below). 

Because I am using an app to switch refresh rates on the fly I am running the Shield with Developer options (for USB debugging and Network debugging) turned on, but temporarily turning them off didn't make a difference. Nor did switching off permissions to display over other apps make a difference. 

Is this a setting in either Uidroid, NextPVR or something I've missed in the AndroidTV system that I can turn off to prevent this.

Thanks

Eric

[mvallevand]

Does it display every time? I did display that info when an unknown key is not in the clientstore to help the installation but maybe I need to remove it.

Martin

[something_fishy]

Hi Martin

It displays whenever a remapped key is activated.
It does not display when an unrecognised key is written to the clientstore.

Cheers

Eric

[mvallevand]

Sorry about that I will have to give it a look. I actually stopped using uidroid because of so many crashes in UI clients but thankfully the upcoming 7.0.5 seems to be much more stable and it is refreshed my thinking on UI clients in general.

Maybe try this apk and see if I fixed that https://www.mediafire.com/file/mx8czath3...e.apk/file

Martin

[something_fishy]

That has sorted the bubble notification issue.

The client no longer seems to respect

    <FFRWBehaviour>Short Skip</FFRWBehaviour>

in config.xml (fast forward and fast rewind do nothing). However "Next track" triggers  short skip without showing the thumbnails and dpad right/left trigger short skips with the thumbnails. So that is not a problem.

I'm using 7.0.3.250920 in an unraid docker. I take a playlist of channels from TVHeadend (needed for SageTV but also to allow me to use TVHeadend to manage channel bouquets) rather than use SatIP natively. Stripping the teletext subtitles and the NAR audio track from the MPEGTS seems to improve the reliability of uidroid.

[something_fishy]

Sorry also should mention that DVB subtitles seem to be on by default despite
<ActiveSubtitle>none</ActiveSubtitle>
in config.xml

Cheers
Eric

[mvallevand]

I honestly can't remember the state of that pre-release, I was trying a lot of things to avoid crashing the server but as we recently found what was causing it and the server is more stable now. config.xml is not used for the client that comes from the client settings ib long press

I may have disabled short skip since effectively that is what thumbnails give (one every 10 seconds) plus and very few users even have FF and RW keys. I do need to manage 3 sets of skip keys plus thumbnails which turn of left/right so the code could easily be mixed up

I am also hoping to make skipping better in the next version plus optionally allow libmpv which I think will be more reliable. Until then a few users remux to mp4 (no transcoding needed) in post processing.

As for bouquet support sub and I would like to improve that. Can you SAT>IP be exposed of the LAN to help test that? Using native is much better since it allows recording multiple streams from the same mux.

Martin

[something_fishy]

Hi Martin

No worries on the pre-release version of uidroid. I have reverted to the current version as the pre-release seems unstable when skipping the timeline. Also it is not respecting the subtitle switch in its <long><pressing> settings screen.

Thanks for the suggestion to remux to mp4 (this is better than mkv for this purpose?), I will give that a try.

I'll send you a PM about giving access to my SAT>IP server. No problem in principle.

[mvallevand]

I like faststart mp4 myself but I think both remuxes here https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid554977 are superior to mpegts

I am pretty sure the pre-release is not the great but I am well on my way to a better uidroid. I will confirm dvb subtitles work, not something I test. Make sure you include the subtitle switches in your remuxing.

Martin

[something_fishy]

Thanks
I'll give those ffmepg switches a try. I wasn't aware of the faststart switches - most of my ffmpeg use is capturing streams into opendct.
Cheers
Eric