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2013-06-19, 01:24
(This post was last modified: 2013-06-19, 14:02 by Kib.)
Hello,
I have an Arctic MC001 and have OPENELEC 3.0.5 installed on it. I use it mainly for plugins. Sometimes the plugins cause openelec to freeze. When this happens I am unable to turn off the unit using the remote. I need to do a hard shut down by pressing the power button on the actual unit. I was wondering if there is a setting or a fix that will prevent the remote from not working when it freezes. I have used other htpc that had windows and linux installed and I was always able to turn off the unit with the remote no matter what happened. Any help would be greatly appreciated. By the way the remote im using is a XBOX 360 DVD remote.
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I have a button on my remote that executes a script to kill xbmc for situations like this. It uses irexec so it doesn't matter if xbmc is unresponsive and in OE xbmc restarts automatically when its closed.
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How would i go about doing that?
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+1; do share :-)
OE is very stable in regular local-content playback but plugins sometimes do cause freezes for me as well!
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I do not have ubuntu installed on my htpc it just openelec. Would it still work?
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Yeah definitely works with OE - I use it.
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thanks teeedubb. i will be waiting for your post.
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2013-06-20, 03:26
(This post was last modified: 2013-06-20, 03:34 by TwistedNy.)
Thank you I will try this tonight. Just one question what button is button = KEY_BRL_DOT1?
Never mind missed the part where you said to use the irw command.
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teeedubb thank you man. I just tried the button with out openelec freezing to see if I did it right and it worked. I am going to try and freeze it now to see it in action when i need it. Your the man bro!!
I wanted to ask you one more question. I dont have a volume up or down button on my remote. Now that I know the irw command I want to use other buttons i do not use on the remote for the volume button. What file do i have to look for to do that? Thanks again
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I Think I get the lircmap but I am lost when it comes to the remote.xml.
The buttons I want to use for volume outputs this in irw
192 0 KEY_CHANNELUP devinput - Want to use for volume up
193 0 KEY_CHANNELDOWN devinput - Want to use for volume down
I made a Lircmap.xml that looks like this.
<lircmap>
<remote device="devinput">
<VolumeUp>KEY_CHANNELUP</VolumeUp>
<VolumeDown>KEY_CHANNELDOWN</VolumeDown>
</remote>
</lircmap>
Not sure if that right but then I get lost with the keymap. That wiki page is a little confusing when you don't know what your doing. lol
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2013-06-20, 06:31
(This post was last modified: 2013-06-20, 09:12 by teeedubb.)
That looks right. Remote.xml will be something like
<remote>
<global>
<VolumeUp>VolumeUp</VolumeUp>
</global>
</remote>
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i cannot do the second step with the infrared rules it tells me the file does not exist and cannot save nano