Direct remote access to the three new recording screens

[ElihuRozen]

I am trying to setup my remote to allow direct access to the new Scheduler, What's New and Recordings screens.  I have two 45 key Hauppague remotes.  On the Windows server, I was able to assign the F8, F9 and F10 to keystrokes to the Radio, Pictures and Music buttons, respectively.  I am trying to get the same functionality on the Client UI under Kodi on the other TV.  I looked at my Hauppague file under Configfiles/rc_keymaps, my Lircmap.xml file under Userdata and my remote.xml under Userdata/keymaps.  I had originally set this up a while ago, so I am a little rusty on this.  After playing with it a bit, I realized I needed to change the remote.xml file.
So, I changed the following lines from:

Code:

      <mymusic>ActivateWindow(AddOn, Music)</mymusic>
      <mypictures>ActivateWindow(AddOn, Pictures)</mypictures>
      <liveradio>ActivateWindow(AddOn, Recordings)</liveradio>

to: 

Code:

      <mymusic>ActivateWindow(AddOn, What's New)</mymusic>
      <mypictures>ActivateWindow(AddOn, Scheduler)</mypictures>
      <liveradio>ActivateWindow(AddOn, Recordings)</liveradio>

(I guess I didn't change the one line.)  None of them worked.  Music took me to NextPVR's Music screen.  Pictures took me to NextPVR's Picture screen.  Radio didn't do anything.  To make sure I was changing the correct things, I tried the following:

Code:

      <mymusic>Down</mymusic>
      <mypictures>Up</mypictures>

When I pressed the buttons, the cursor went up and down as I expected it would.  I tried changing to the key names, even though the documentation says you have to have an Action and I couldn't find an action to send a keystroke.  Now, Music took me to Kodi's Music screen.  Pictures took me to Kodi's Pictures screen.  
Does anybody know what values I should have for each line?  Would logs help?  If so, which logs, NextPVR or Kodi?  Both?

[mvallevand]

I would start by seeing of noop outside of knewc helps as I showed here https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid500808 but you'd have to make sure the Fn keys pass through. (AddOn, What's New) etc won't do anything, that won't get past to knewc.

I will try and have a look sometime in the next couple of days, hopefully my N2 is still configured for IR, I have moved on to RF remotes, line of site is too old school.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Fortunately my N2 is still configured for the Hauppauge and as I suspected adding the noop values got the top 6 buttons working as defined by knewc without changing lirc Recordings is already on TV and the rest are the libraries. I do still love the Hauppauge remote when I actually point it at the box. I also have the Power key set to power off the N2 to low power mode so I do copy that key into my RF remote.

I digress, at this point the easiest thing to do is edit emulate.py

Code:

nano ~/.kodi/addons/script.kodi.knewc/resources/src/nextpvr/emulate.py

and (remarkably for me) I documented the keys in the code. 120 = F9 and 121 = F10 so in this example I have F9 for Pictures and F10 for Radio. The value would be Fn = 111 + n if that helps.

Code:

.
            if buttonID == 50:
                #guide
                url = keyBase + '112'
            elif buttonID == 49 or buttonID == 101:
                # recordings
                url = keyBase + '119'
            elif buttonID == 24:
                #live tv
                url = keyBase + '113'
            elif buttonID == 7:
                #my videos
                url = keyBase + '114'
            elif buttonID == 9:
                #my music
                url = keyBase + '115'
            elif buttonID == 6:
                #my pictures
                url = keyBase + '120'
            elif buttonID == 248:
                #my radio
                url = keyBase + '121'

Martin

[ElihuRozen]

Just to report back, I followed your example and can now access all three new recordings screens with a single button press in the UI Client under Kodi, just the same as the Windows client on the server machine.  Thanks for the help.

Another question, in the TV Guide on the server, I can hit the Go button to bring up the selection of my channel lists because I have it mapped to Ctrl + G.  I couldn't figure out how to do something similar under Kodi.  As part of testing, I set the Menu/Info key to use:

Code:

url = keyBase + str(71|0x20000)

and that worked, but I want to keep the functionality of Menu/Info as it is and use the Go button for this.  I couldn't find the code I need to change in emulate.py.

[mvallevand]

Knewc support Ctrl-G for the guide, but I am using a newer emulate.py that is maybe easier easier to understand and I can hardly read the old crap myself.

Change this https://github.com/emveepee/X-NEWA/blob/...te.py#L333 to

= beyBase + str(71|0x20000)

Martin