XBMC PVR Client and MCE Remote

Hi,

I've been a long term user of XBMC for media along with 7MC for Live TV, but thought I would give the latest Eden release a go coupled with 4therecord TV Server to get access to the advanced record scheduling that 4therecord supports.

While everything appears to work, I'm having a few issues with the remote that make it almost unusable at the moment.

Are the following buttons on an MCE remote currently mappable in XBMC or is this still work in progress due to the beta nature of Eden?

TV Guide Button
Live TV Button
Record TV Button
Recored Button
Green Home Button

I've tried applying the MCE Remote addon, but this hasn't helped, even though there appears to be mappings for some of these buttons in the XML. I guess they are mapped, but just don't send anything useful that XBMC understands. I see a notification on the screen that I've pressed the 'recorded TV' button, but it doesn't then open the recorded TV page. Also the green button doesn't open the home page as I would expect it to like 7MC and Mediaportal do.

Is there an easy way to do this? New map or different remote?
Is anyone currently able to do this or is it a case of waiting for it to be natively supported?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Use MCE remote and map those buttons the the characters Dushmaniac setup recently.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=844667&postcount=5

Quote:e = activate EPG = XBMC.ActivateWindowAndFocus(MyPVR, 31,0, 10,0)
h = activate TV = XBMC.ActivateWindowAndFocus(MyPVR, 32,0, 11,0)
j = activate Radio = XBMC.ActivateWindowAndFocus(MyPVR, 33,0, 12,0)
k = activate Recordings = XBMC.ActivateWindowAndFocus(MyPVR, 34,0, 13,0)
b = activate Search = XBMC.ActivateWindowAndFocus(MyPVR, 35,0, 14,0)

It won’t fix all your issues, but it sure helps.

Thanks, I'll give these a go.

i extended my configuration by adding the following settings to the keyboard mapping. it seems to get all the play contol buttons working in the pvr window

<!--record a program now-->
<r mod="ctrl">PlayerControl(Record)</r>
<p mod="ctrl,shift">PlayerControl(Play)</p>
<b mod="ctrl">PlayerControl(Repeat)</b>
<f mod="ctrl">PlayerControl(Next)</f>
<f mod="ctrl,shift">PlayerControl(Forward)</f>
<b mod="ctrl,shift">PlayerControl(Rewind)</b>
<p mod="ctrl">PlayerControl(Play)</p>

any thoughts?

sprucas

Thanks a lot sprucas, it works very well! Finaly I can use my remote to pause and rew/fwd live TV! Well done figuring this out.

/Marcus

@sprucas - thanks!!! that works - finally easy live tv pause...kids will be happy!

Ok?! But where to paste this in my config ?

I made a keyboard.xml file in my userdata\keymap folder and pasted in this info, but unfortunatly did not work for me.

Needs to be in the fullscreenvideo section

I didn't have a keyboard.xml there, can someone provide a default one ?