Keyboard Shortcuts

[djsindt]

I was wondering if there was a way to change the default keyboard shortcuts in Boxee. I have an older MCE remote and I've tried just about everything to get it to work with no luck.

In the past I've played around with Media-Portal and was able to get my remote to work by changing the keyboard shortcuts to match the buttons on my remote. This worked awesome and I was hoping to do the same thing with Boxee.

[djsindt]

Has anyone else run into this issue or am I the only one that's bought a crappy remote? Any advice would be helpful. I've found the boxee/system/keymap.xml and am willing to edit it to try to get things working, but I'm not sure how I would specify key combinations within it.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

[DPK]

Moving this to the remotes forum... might get better response there than the windows help forum.

[djsindt]

I just realized that I didn't say what type of remote I was using. I'm not sure if it matters in this case, but I'm trying to use a Windows MCE remote. I'm not positive of the model number, but here's a link to it on Amazon. Any help would be appreciated.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00224ZDFY/sr=8-1/qid=1248093523/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1248093523&sr=8-1&seller=#moreAboutThisProduct

[jevdokimoff]

Hey gang,
I purchased a program called quickeys and use it to remap my remotes commands to control whatever I like. It's not a cheap solution, but it does work great. I use it with my Logitech Harmony remote and can run just about anything with it.

[AlissonMurphy]

This is exactly what i was looking for. thank you for the informative post and keep up the good work!

[skiboy21488]

Free solution is to use IRServer suite. I have been using it on a mce remote with alpha and beta fine.

IR Server Suite 1.4.2 Test Build
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/ir-server-suite-irss-165/ir-server-suite-version-1-4-2-test-build-3158-3197-a-33512/

[agentlame]

I know this is of little help at the moment, but the Boxee Beta will have native support for MCE remotes.

[gregms]

I know this is of little help at the moment, but the Boxee Beta will have native support for MCE remotes.

Can you expand on the differences between how the alpha handled mce remote and how the beta does/will?

[huytere]

Now that the Beta has the great "Shortcuts" screen, how can we bring that up directly using our remote control. I have been looking at keymap.xml and see that we could probably use XBMC.ActivateWindow(MyMusic) but change it to be XCMC.ActivateWindow(Shortcuts) ??

What is the correct parameter to use to bring up the Beta "Shortcuts" menu?

I have to say a big thank you for the developers, this "Shortcuts" navigation scheme is a radical and much needed change! Well done!

[huytere]

ok, for once I can answer my own question. Here is how to make your remote control have a "Home" button to get you directly to the new "Shortcuts" screen:

put ActivateWindow(10467) in the mappings xml file, you can find the 10467 by looking thru the windows xml files. Tailing boxee.log helps you see which xml files are being used to display the various screens.

Upon more research, I see that Pandora is using windowId 14000 and so presumably we could create a remote shortcut to lanuch Pandora directly....ahh, I am loving boxee more and more every day :D

[DPK]

Upon more research, I see that Pandora is using windowId 14000 and so presumably we could create a remote shortcut to lanuch Pandora directly....ahh, I am loving boxee more and more every day :D

That won't work. Most apps use id 14000 as the default id for their main xml windows. It's a carry over from xbmc. You could call 14000 and any random app will launch depending on it's hierarchy or last usage.

If you wanted to call an app directly you'd probably need to launch it via the internal path (which is something like app://pandora). Don't quote me on that though as I've never tried to do what you're asking. I just know that calling id 14000 won't work.

[gregms]

In the keymaps file, things like:
<mytv>XBMC.ActivateWindow(10479,myth://localhost/tvshows/)</mytv>
work because it's bring up a window browser, but I still don't see how to bring up an app.

I tried:
<mymusic>XBMC.ActivateWindow(10479,app://pandora)</mymusic>
<mymusic>XBMC.ActivateWindow(app://pandora)</mymusic>
<mymusic>app://pandora</mymusic>

Neither work, probably because on the shortcuts file, they are listed as paths instead of commands, which is what the ActivateWindow example uses.

Anyone have luck with this?

[ldavies]

@gregms Did you every get to figure this out? I would like to send an http command to open Pandora myself rather than having to navigate to it.

[gregms]

@gregms Did you every get to figure this out? I would like to send an http command to open Pandora myself rather than having to navigate to it.

No, but I haven't really tried again though.
-GregMS