A Complete noob question about remote controller

[mpooley]

Hi
I have JUST set up a test machine to try GBPVR out. I had some problems but apart from some niggles about naming of channels. I think I am getting there.

What I cant understand is my new MCE compatable remote controll.

for instance to get the EPG i have to press DVD menu! OK thats not major . But when i am say watching a recording, stop it and press DVD menu I go back to the main menu?

Lots of keys seem to act like this. I cant even remember all the variations, it just seems totally illogical.

Is this a GBPVR thing I just havn't understood?

Ok A little more Detail
I bring up the main menu and press ok for Recordings. List comes up, select one, another menu comes up, I select play
It starts playing with a small guide at bottom of screen.
Now i'd just found this guide by accident when mucking about with the dvd button. but i thought id got rid by re-pressing same button.

Ok I think press dvd button again -- nothing happens I cant get rid of it?
I press back - Nothing
press more and the epg go's up a page.
press recorded TV - Nothing
Guide - Nothing
Live TV - Nothing
DVD Menu and hey presto I go back to the recordings with the recorded show displayed in corner.
Why did this work now and not before?
Press dvd menu button again and it goes back to main menu with recorded show in large window eeek!
I then press stop which i assume will stop the recorded show but nothing happens.

i Try all buttons nothing happens til i get back to the dvd button which seems to be only one that does anything but it pops me back into the recording with the small epg still showing LOL
Ok if i was in the main menu at one point why didn't i get out of the recording that way?
Ok this way works but I have loads of buttons and they seem to work/not work when they feel like it.

I hope you can make some sort of sense out of this, it's just onen of the control probs I am having.

BTW I did set up the MCE controller in config!




thanks

Mike

[stustunz]

Whats the exact remote
mce compatible means nothing

you may need to look at using something like HIP or Event Ghost

[collin]

I recommend this:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=43135

It takes some tech savy but lets you map your keys however you like via the windows registry. No third party software to worry about

[jw100]

I've just been through this myself. Don't worry, it does work.

It helps to read the Keyboard Guide in the Manual (at Wiki). This describes which functions operate in a specific area,as defined by the files in the KeyMappings directory. This shows how they map to a remote:
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Hardw...eyMappings

These functions are mapped to buttons using a definition in the windows registry (described in previous post's link, which tells you how to change them if you want to).

Not all functions/buttons are active in every part of the application. Also, they may change depending on what you're doing, though the keyboard-button mapping remains the same. For example, the blue button brings up programme information (Ctrl-b), but it pages down through the EPG when that's displayed during playback.

Guide display is also confusing at first. There's the one you select from the Main Menu and a reduced version that pops up on live TV or playback, plus a "mini-guide" (green button/Ctrl-G) that only shows current programmes on adjacent channels. Another oddity on playback, I've found, is that the "Guide" button will display the EPG but I need to press "Clear" to get rid of it, while in Live TV pressing "Guide" toggles the display.

The DVD Menu key is not actually listed in the registry key. The KeyMappings directory contains the application mappings, and the only one I could find "DVD_MENU" in was the DVD Player, wher it's defined as the keyboard "Home" key, so I guess that's what it's doing, same as the "i"/"More" button on my remote. My remote outputs IR code "0x24" which maps to the "DVD Menu" button on the standard MCE remote. If you had a "DVD Menu" entry in your Main Menu, it would be nice it it selected that, but there's no application keyboard key for that function.