Problem with Apple Remote on Atlantis and SVN

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yzeyze Offline
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Post: #41
Ok, I have made a quick and dirty change to the Keymap.xml file.
It now does this....

In menus, as it is at the moment, (up, down, left, right, play) except 'menu' to go back one step instead of going all the way back to the main menu.

When playing video....
Remote - Function
Play - play/pause
Menu - bring up menu
left - back 30 seconds
right - forward 30 seconds
+ - forward 10 minutes
- - stop

If you want to try it...
edit - see next post
Backup existing file first.

Otherwise wait for official one (next beta?) which I am positive will be a lot better, this just got me around some small issues I had with the current mapping.
(This post was last modified: 2008-09-29 03:57 by yzeyze.)
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yzeyze Offline
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Post: #42
Ok, after playing a bit with it, found a few little issues - most notably no way to exit the video calibration screen....

So have tweaked it a little more, I still don't know all the button presses, I have worked out a few but not all, but I will play some more later.

Anyway, the update is available at http://www.savefile.com/files/1811889

On this one,

Video Calibration
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To exit, press and hold Menu

Playing Music
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press and hold Menu to bring up player controls
(menu once to remove)

Full screen video
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Press and hold 'menu' to bring up controls (to make the same as when playing music)
Press 'menu' to bring up movie information.
Play - play/pause
left - back 30 seconds
right - forward 30 seconds
+ - forward 10 minutes
- - stop

edit - also P&H of 'Menu' when in screens that menu won't take you out of (such as "Settings") will take you back as well.

I found that press and hold on menu does actually do something different (as you can see from above).
I haven't found if press and hold of the other keys does anything, but this is what I have found so far if anyone else wants to have a bash as well...

Apple TV Remote - XBMC label Function
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Menu - Menu
Play/Pause - Select or Enter
Menu (P&H) - Back
+ - Up
- - Down
Left - Left
Right - Right

(P&H) means "Press and Hold"
(This post was last modified: 2008-09-29 04:21 by yzeyze.)
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d4rk Offline
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Post: #43
yzeyze, could you create a Patch ticket on Trac and attach your updated Keymap uncompressed to it, so that it is easier to keep track of. It would also be easier for us to check out.

If it works well and is more intuitive than the current implementation (which it definitely sounds like it is), then we can incorporate your updates into the default Keymap.

Thanks.

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yzeyze Offline
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Post: #44
Ok, thanks have just added it, hopefully I did it correctly....
Ticket 5018 - hopefully you guys can make it better. - so far I've only played with the things I needed.

p.s. If running slideshow for screensaver, press and hold menu will get you out of that as well.
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Post: #45
I still can't get XBMCHelper working with Atlantis Beta 2. XBMC doesn't run the helper when I check "Always Run", and when I manually run the helper in the terminal and press Menu on my apple remote, it says "The file /Applications/XBMC.app/XBMC does not exist." Where is the preference that stores the location of the XBMC executable? org.xbmc.helper.plist doesn't seem to help.
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