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/B00...outThisProduct

[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...-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!