2008-06-01, 00:38
Hi all,
I am a first-time XBMC user, just installed it on my Apple TV running Hardy (from the SVN daily build PPA for Hardy). Needless to say, it rocks with the xTV skin
However, I'm having trouble controlling XBMC easily using my Apple remote (which only has 6 buttons - mapped to XBMC's select, left, right, up, down, menu). E.g. when I'm playing music and would like to get back to the main menu, there is no easy way to do this. I need to manually 'skip ->|' until I go past the last song in the current album/folder and (because repeat is disabled) the menu comes up again.
For movies I've discovered that 'skip ->|' stops playback of the movie and goes back to the menu (i.e. it does not start playing the next movie) - this works great for me.
Is there any way to workaround this? Can I reconfigure 'skip ->|' for music files to mean 'stop playing and return to menu' just like it seems to be doing for movies? Or could I add an extra item in the 'while playing' menu to take me back to the music selection screen? Or is there any way I can work with lirc to get more than 6 different signals out of this remote? (eg pressing 'menu' longer than 1 second results in a 7th signal - in MacOS the apple remotes seem to behave this way)
Thanks in advance!
I am a first-time XBMC user, just installed it on my Apple TV running Hardy (from the SVN daily build PPA for Hardy). Needless to say, it rocks with the xTV skin
However, I'm having trouble controlling XBMC easily using my Apple remote (which only has 6 buttons - mapped to XBMC's select, left, right, up, down, menu). E.g. when I'm playing music and would like to get back to the main menu, there is no easy way to do this. I need to manually 'skip ->|' until I go past the last song in the current album/folder and (because repeat is disabled) the menu comes up again.
For movies I've discovered that 'skip ->|' stops playback of the movie and goes back to the menu (i.e. it does not start playing the next movie) - this works great for me.
Is there any way to workaround this? Can I reconfigure 'skip ->|' for music files to mean 'stop playing and return to menu' just like it seems to be doing for movies? Or could I add an extra item in the 'while playing' menu to take me back to the music selection screen? Or is there any way I can work with lirc to get more than 6 different signals out of this remote? (eg pressing 'menu' longer than 1 second results in a 7th signal - in MacOS the apple remotes seem to behave this way)
Thanks in advance!