Go directly back to Home Screen on XBMC ATV2 via Apple remote?
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Hi

Hope someone can help or shed some light on this ....

I would like to go directly back to the Home screen for example when I am buried a few folders deep in Videos-Files .. via the Apple remote. At the moment I have to keep going up 1 level till I am back to the Home screen and this can take alot of clicks.

Anyone got a solution to this? or know what options there are to make this easier?

I also notice that nice "Home" icon in the bottom-right of the screen. However, I cannot access it with the remote control. It seems to be there for a mouse or touch interface.

Any help and/or suggestions welcome.

Thanks heaps in advance

Cheers
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#2
you could map a button to "Home" in your joystick.AppleRemote.xml.

Something like:

<button id="8">ActivateWindow(home)</button>

That will make "Hold Menu" show the home screen.
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#3
You can also consider trying an XBMC remote app on your smart phone.
Apple TV2 running XBMC Gotham beta
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(2014-03-13, 07:06)guentjo Wrote: you could map a button to "Home" in your joystick.AppleRemote.xml.

Something like:

<button id="8">ActivateWindow(home)</button>

That will make "Hold Menu" show the home screen.

Thanks guentjo

Will give that a try and report back
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(2014-03-13, 07:06)guentjo Wrote: you could map a button to "Home" in your joystick.AppleRemote.xml.

Something like:

<button id="8">ActivateWindow(home)</button>

That will make "Hold Menu" show the home screen.

Hi guentjo

I tried this and it seems to have worked although I am using button id 7. I have a few questions that I hope you can help with.

When i use button id 8 I can not get the context menu for videos.

I have had to put this action in GLOBAL and VIDEOFILES

Is that the correct place to add this in the keymap?

Cheers
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#6
Button ID 8 was an example only; you can code it to any button. I'm not sure if you asking a question or not.

If it's in Global, you shouldn't need to put it anywhere else. However, chances are, you have ID 7 coded for something else in the sub-levels. If you do, it will override the global command. So make sure it's not somewhere you don't want it.
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