[keyboard.xml - Action commands] PVR specific keymapping ?

hi, and what about the pause button. this doesn't seem to work in pvr. in movies it does on my harmony one with mce profile.
I heart it was disabled by the developers is that right?!
when using my mobile app (XBMC commander) I am able to pause on pvr however...

i press pause in pvr and it works..could be timeshifting isnt enabled in the tv server? i dunno, i know nothing about xbmc.. testing it out from wmc..

you could always stick with the mce remote as a base and only change buttons that are relevant to xbmc so stuff like guide, menu etc. the normal everyday stuff common to most remotes, like ply, ff rewind, leave as mce remote.. although it may defeat the purpose of tthis thread.. sorry if it does.

I want to map the EPG-Info-window to the info-button on my remote to view a currently watched program-info when watching TV.

The command in Keymap.xml is:


Unfortunately the window is always empty or shows old infos from the last selected program on the EPG-timeline.

How can I get the EPG-informations of the currently watched channel? I'm looking for something like:


However, the above line is not working. I don't know the magic command to replace CurrentChannel.

without looking at the code I think what you try to do is not possible atm - you probably need to use XBMC.ActivateWindow(PVROSDGuide) (untested)

I don't want the guide. I want the information-subwindow from the guide. The window with the description-text of the currently running tv-movie.

pvrguideinfo is working already it just doesn't show the wrong info because it's not executed from the epg-timeline but directly from fullscreen-tv. I think there must be a variable for the epg to handover so that the info-subwindow knows what to display.

This wiki-page shows a list of such variables used internally in xbmc. I just don't know how to use them.

E.g. there a variables called ListItem.NextPlot, ListItem.NextPlotOutline or even ListItem.ChannelName. I just don't know which one to choose and how to use them.

Edit: I just found a variable called VideoPlayer.ChannelName. That's propably the one I need. The description says it gives me the name of the currently tuned channel. Now I just need the syntax for calling the EPG-Info-subwindow properly to handover the channel-name.

Here is a description of calling subwindows. The wikipage Window-ID's links to that page and reads:

Quote: "You can use secondary parameters with all media windows, as can be seen here:".

Somehow the EPG has to tell it's subwindow what info to display. Unfortunately the wiki-pages don't show a list of possible parameters for all xbmc-subwindows.

I have Info pull up DialogFullscreenInfo.xml to show the currently playing channel info. Do you specifically need the EPGinfo window for setting a timer?

@bred_pitt - You can't pass dynamic arguments to a window from within a keymap - at least not as far as I know. The wiki page you're referring to is intended to be used in skins, not keymaps.

What you want to achieve might be possible after the PVR windows have been refactored (IIRC pieh was working on it) - not sure if this is already finished and in mainline.