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[falser]

Kudos to the developers, it looks like XMBC will be a winner.  The main problem I'm having is the keymappings for the MS DVD remote are way out of whack compared into XBMP.  For example, in XMBC when playing music I want the DISPLAY button to turn on visualizations, and when in the visualization I'd like to be able to fast forward/rewind/toggle info like in XBMP.  Instead the MENU button turns on visualization for some reason, you'd think the MENU button would take you back to the main XBMC menu.  The back button doesn't work when browsing files, I have to actually select the ".." file at the top each time which gets annoying.  This would be all cool and dandy as long I could edit the keys myself, but the keymap.xml file does not contain these functions, they appear to be hardcoded in XBMC.

Does anyone have any insight on how to configure the remote to work like XBMP does?

This post has been edited by falser: Jan 8 2004, 04:08 AM <

[82ross]

Just look in the kepmap.xml for the keys that do what you want and change them, move <remote>back</remote> from where it is now to the parent directory command. Its pretty easy.

You cant fast forward or anything yet simply because it isnt in their yet, nothing todo with the remote.  <

[falser]

Cool, I'll try out the back button tonight.   But what about the menu button turning on visualization?  I've look through every xml entry and none of them gives any hint to which button maps 'menu' to this  <

[falser]

Whoops my mistake - yeah the 'Toggling' entries were the ones that needed to be changed, got it working now.  <

[falser]

If anyone is interested below is what I changed my keymap to.  The back button always works now, the display button always toggles visualization, the menu button always takes you back to the main menu, and the number 2 button toggles between your playlist and files.  I picked '2' because you have to have a separate button unless you want to override the menu, back, info buttons which starts getting confusing, and 2 is in a convenient spot.  These really only affect the music browsing.  I like it so far, and it's similar to how XBMP worked.

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Move Left      1      dpadleft      left                    Move Right      2      dpadright      right                    Move Up      3      dpadup      up                    Move Down      4      dpaddown      down                    Page Up      5      lefttrigger      reverse                    Page Down      6      righttrigger      forward                    Select Item      7      A      select                    Parent Directory      9      B      back              Previous Menu      10      back      menu                    Show File Info      11      white      info                    Pause      12      pause                    Stop      13      stop                    Skip Next      14      skipplus                    Skip Previous      15      skipminus                    Toggle between GUI and fullscreen      18      X      display                    Analog Movement      49      leftthumbstick              My files specific actions    3          Switch Source and Destination      32      black      display                    Select/Deselect a File      8      Y      play                      My Music playlist specific actions    500          Toggle between Playlist and Filelist      33      black      2                    Remove Item from the Playlist      34      Y      title                  My Music songs specific actions    501          Toggle between Playlist and Filelist      33      black      2                    Add Item to the Playlist      34      Y      title                  My Music album specific actions    502          Toggle between Playlist and Filelist      33      black      2                    Add Item to the Playlist      34      Y      title                  My Music artist specific actions    503          Toggle between Playlist and Filelist      33      black      2                    Add Item to the Playlist      34      Y      title                  My Music genre specific actions    504          Toggle between Playlist and Filelist      33      black      2                    Add Item to the Playlist      34      Y      title                  My Music top 100 specific actions    505          Toggle between Playlist and Filelist      33      black      2                    Add Item to the Playlist      34      Y      title                Fullscreen Video specific actions    2005          Zoom/Stretch/Normal      19      start      1              Pause      12      back      pause              Stop      13      A      stop              Step Forward      20      dpadright      right              Step Backward      21      dpadleft      left              Big Step Forward      22      dpadup      up              Big Step Backward      23      dpaddown      down              Toggle the OSD      24      black      info              Show/Hide Subtitles      25      white      title              Next Subtitle Language      26      B              Show Codec Info      27      Y      3              Slideshow/Picture View specific actions    2007          Show Picture Info      27      black      info              Next Picture      28      righttrigger      skipplus              Previous Picture      29      lefttrigger      skipminus              Pause/Continue      12      start      pause              Zoom Out      30      X              Zoom In      31      A              Zoom Level 1 (normal)      37      0                    Zoom Level 2      38      1                    Zoom Level 3      39      2                    Zoom Level 4      40      3                    Zoom Level 5      41      4                    Zoom Level 6      42      5                    Zoom Level 7      43      6                    Zoom Level 8      44      7                    Zoom Level 9      45      8                    Zoom Level 10      46      9                    Move Picture Left (in Zoom mode)      1      dpadleft      left              Move Picture Right (in Zoom mode)      2      dpadright      right              Move Picture Up (in Zoom mode)      3      dpadup      up              Move Picture Down (in Zoom mode)      4      dpaddown      down              Rotate Picture      50      Y      title            Movie Calibration specific actions    11          Swap calibration arrows      47      A      select              Reset the calibration      48      black      info              Change Resolution      57      white      title            UI Calibration specific actions    10          Reset the calibration      48      black      info            Select Dialog Specific Actions (CDDB lookups etc.)    2000          Close Window      51      back      info

modified for video toggle fix

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[xprezz]

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If anyone is interested below is what I changed my keymap to

Nice work, just what I was looking for.  <

[lalani]

falser

Thank you. I was looking for this also. I prefer the way XBMP navigates so this is much appreciated.

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[falser]

No problem at all guys - someone had to do it.  <

[xprezz]

Works brilliantly appart from one thing. What do you do when you want to go out of fullscreen when in a movie falser?  <

[falser]

Oh now that I look I may buggered that one up.   See this entry overrides the display button while watching a movie:

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Fullscreen Video specific actions   2005       Zoom/Stretch/Normal     19     start     display

You could remap that to button 1 or something, and I think the global "Toggle between GUI and fullscreen" display button will then take effect.  I'll double check this myself tonight.  <

[falser]

Followup: yes that fixed it.  I've updated the keymap above to reflect the change - display toggles out of the movie, button 1 now changes zoom/stretch, and 3 shows the codec.  <

[xprezz]

Woohoo..

This should be made a sticky as I know plenty of people wanting the old XBMP style remote.  <

[Gmc]

Nice, thanks alot, needed this!  <

[P_v]

Anybody know how to make buttons only work when the music visualization window is active?  All I need to know if the window code for the visualizer, I think.  <

[P_v]

oops.  I found it on my own.  stupid me misread the docs.   :rolleyes:
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