keymappings changes not working

[johnsonx42]

I want to change the keymapping so that the Home key calls up the OSD (the one normally called with ^B that shows the program info), rather than calling up the menu-inset mode. So, I modified both LiveTVPreviewPlayer.xml and LiveTVTimeshiftPlayer.xml thusly:

Code:

<command name="LIVETV_OSD" key="Home"/>
...
  <command name="LIVETV_MENU" key="End"/>

However, the change has no effect - the i button on my remote (which gb-pvr receives as 'Home') and the real 'Home' key on the keyboard still call up the menu-inset mode, and End still does nothing, BUT ^B now does nothing as well.

So on one hand it has recognized that ^B is not mapped to the OSD function, but doesn't recognize that Home and End now have different functions.

What gives? Are some of these keys hard-coded somewhere? Or am I missing something?


edit: additional observation: with the default keymapping, ^I also brings up the OSD yet ^I isn't mentioned anywhere in the keymapping. With my modified mapping, both ^B and ^I don't work. So ^I seems somehow linked to ^B, and Home seems hard-coded to the "LIVETV_MENU" and can't be assigned elsewhere? This is a bit illogical and frustrating.

[sub]

Some keys like Up/Down/Left/Right/Enter/Home/Escape get special attention in the application, and have hard coded meanings. These cant be overriden for to perform some other action..

[johnsonx42]

arg! Arrows, Enter and Escape I can understand being hard coded, you don't want an error in the keymappings file making the program unusable, but why Home? It doesn't seem to do anything all that critical?

[sub]

Sorry, the GB-PVR has always used the Home key for some special activities (returning to the menu etc). Its not configurable.

[johnsonx42]

I'll get over it I guess. This is one case where my Vista results were better: my remote's i button didn't register as anything in GB-PVR, so I was able to map it with EventGhost to '^B' and bring up the OSD. But in XP, it gets received as Home and there's nothing I can do about it.

There's a couple of other buttons I can use, but none even remotely (no pun intended) as convenient as i

[SLR_65]

Hmmm, this is interesting because I use XP Pro with SP3 and a Hauppauge 1062 MCE Remote and I have done exactly as you want to do - reassigned the i button to pull up the OSD.

I use LM Remote Keymap to do the key reassignments and I have posted a thread on how to use LM Remote Keymap with this remote, just do a search of the forums.

I also reassigned the green windows button to bring up the mini guide.

What remote are you using?

/Steve

[johnsonx42]

Gyration Airmouse MCE remote: http://www.gyration.com/?l=en#productDet...ediaRemote

It uses a USB RF dongle and interfaces as a standard USB HID device. AFAIK, there's no way to stop the remote keypresses from reaching windows, and therefore gb-pvr. The only thing I can do is catch remote keypresses that windows and/or gb-pvr don't already understand and make them do something else with EventGhost. Rather, I could catch the i button and send another command, but gb-pvr would still receive the 'Home' command as well.

I've got about 8 or 9 buttons that I can work with, just not the best one.

That said, I will look into LM Remote Keymap to see if it somehow can go the extra step of blocking the default function from reaching gb-pvr. Thanks.

[SLR_65]

Hmmm, that's interesting - I thought the purpose of the remote configuration programs was to intercept the remote commands and translate to whatever you configured. I know that LM seems to do that on my system as I can reassign keys that do something to do something else.

Are you running media center edition? If so you have to disable a program to get things working correctly (ehome.exe I think).

[johnsonx42]

Hmmm, that's interesting - I thought the purpose of the remote configuration programs was to intercept the remote commands and translate to whatever you configured. I know that LM seems to do that on my system as I can reassign keys that do something to do something else.

It is something I need to look into a little more. EventGhost is not exactly a remote configuration program, though that's probably one of it's most common uses. It simply watches for various events on the system, and then takes the actions you define. It has an HID plugin, which monitors for HID events. AFAICT it can't intercept anything - any event that occurs still occurs, EventGhost simply takes action based on the event. In the case of remote buttons that don't otherwise do anything in GB-PVR, I can simply tell EventGhost to detect the original HID event, and then 'press' F7 or ^B or whatever for me.

I was led to understand that the more common remote re-config utilities like HIP and Girder would not work with remotes that connect as USB HID devices such as mine. I haven't looked at LM Remote though...

Are you running media center edition? If so you have to disable a program to get things working correctly (ehome.exe I think).

Nope, just regular XP Pro SP3.

[sub]

AFAICT it can't intercept anything - any event that occurs still occurs

You might need to change your remote to something other than 'MCE' in the config app.