2006-07-21, 09:22 PM
I sounds like it's a little bit of each. 
i feel your pain about the OSD, since i really don't use GBpvr for TV viewing, only music and recordings playback, Moving the Homeseer plugin to the first positon was a pretty easy thing to do, since i've never brought up the TV guide in OSD. I suspect it's more of a problem with your STB and what it needs.. There may be a way to map unused keys for things but it'll take someone with more experience than I to help you with that part.
As for the way the buttons operate
setup correctly they should roll around both left to right and up and down. Meaning that if you are at the left most button and you have say 5 buttons as you go past the 5th button it should come around to the first button in the same row again. Same thing for up and down.
Does it not work this way for you? How many events do you have setup in the config.xml?
i feel your pain about the OSD, since i really don't use GBpvr for TV viewing, only music and recordings playback, Moving the Homeseer plugin to the first positon was a pretty easy thing to do, since i've never brought up the TV guide in OSD. I suspect it's more of a problem with your STB and what it needs.. There may be a way to map unused keys for things but it'll take someone with more experience than I to help you with that part.
As for the way the buttons operate
setup correctly they should roll around both left to right and up and down. Meaning that if you are at the left most button and you have say 5 buttons as you go past the 5th button it should come around to the first button in the same row again. Same thing for up and down.
Does it not work this way for you? How many events do you have setup in the config.xml?
jsteele Wrote:Yes, it works fine from a functionality stantpoint. The interaction is nuts thought :-) I can't get the OSD while the TV is running so I have to get to the menu. Then I can select Homeseer and the button array comes up. Using the Up/Down/Left/Right results in the button array going away and something that looks like its supposed to be the OSD, a single row of buttons at the bottom of a blank screen. Then I can navigate to the button I want (the second button row will appear if I press the Down key :-)
A bit quirky but at least the functionality is there. Now all I have to do is sort out the interface management :-)
PS, in my configuration (emulated keyboard) I suspect that the "0+Go" is not actually functioning that way --- I suspect its ignoring the "0". The reason i say that is that any other digit + Go does not go the the "Framed LiveTV/Menu" screen but rather to the channel. Looks to me like the emulated keyboard interaction is somewhat different than the native remote interaction.
It would be nice if there was a way to define keys to launch user-defined functions. For example, my remote has "*" and "#". The remote "*" is mapped to keyboard "F7" as I recall to allow aspect ratio changes. The "#" is unused but it would be nice if there were some way to map that to a specific GBPVR function/plugin. In my case I'd map the remote "#" to some keyboard function that would dispatch the Homeseer plugin. I realize this is a GBPVR matter and not a Plugin problem.