[LINUX] HOW-TO use all custom buttons of your remote control with LIRC

it's a wiki. catch pike on irc, ask for ninja and off you go

Temar Wrote:About Wiki Access: I already tried to get wiki access, but noone responded in IRC. Where else can I apply for wiki access?

Hey Temar, nice reading. About your remark, I've asked my wiki access as described here.

My Windows MCE remote seemed to work out of the box, after having switched from Myth on Mythbuntu by just adding on XBMC; for the most part I've got everything I need, but I would like to tweak a few settings (e.g. making the "Play" button make videos go straight to 1x playback). I'd rather not have to re-code all the buttons. Is there a place where I can edit what's already there? I don't have a Lircmap or Keymap file in my ~/.xbmc/userdata folder right now, so I'm not sure how XBMC is using my MCE remote (there's no xbmc file in my ~/.lirc folder either)

mgchan Wrote:I'd rather not have to re-code all the buttons. Is there a place where I can edit what's already there?

Depending on where you installed XBMC the Keymap.xml & Lircmap.xml should be located in:

/usr/share/xbmc/system/
or
/usr/local/share/xbmc/system/

Temar Wrote:Depending on where you installed XBMC the Keymap.xml & Lircmap.xml should be located in:

/usr/share/xbmc/system/
or
/usr/local/share/xbmc/system/

When i try to edit these files winSCP denies me access. Same with Filezilla.
I am still very much a Linux noob so would appreciate some directions.

I tried copying them over to: /home/xbmc/.xbmc/system for lircmap and /keymaps/ for the remote.xml

But my changes take no effect. How can i get access to these files? Or was i on the right track by copying them over.

Nogood5 Wrote:When i try to edit these files winSCP denies me access. Same with Filezilla.
I am still very much a Linux noob so would appreciate some directions.

I tried copying them over to: /home/xbmc/.xbmc/system for lircmap and /keymaps/ for the remote.xml

But my changes take no effect. How can i get access to these files? Or was i on the right track by copying them over.

This is likely due to the fact that those files are owned by root and you're probably trying to edit them as a user. Regardless the way that the .xbmc/userdata files work is that any settings defined in them override any of the settings in /usr. So really all you need are the settings that apply to your remote. You can copy them, you should at least have read access, but you don't need the whole file, just the things that you're going to change.

Nogood5 Wrote:When i try to edit these files winSCP denies me access. Same with Filezilla.
I am still very much a Linux noob so would appreciate some directions.

As Maxim said, you can't overwrite files in /usr/share/xbmc/... or /usr/local/share/xbmc/... if you do not have root (Administrator) access. Therefore you should log into your xbmc account (the account name of the user which runs the xbmc executable) and copy your files into the local settings folder, which should be /home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/ (if your xbmc account is named 'xbmc').

Quote:I tried copying them over to: /home/xbmc/.xbmc/system for lircmap and /keymaps/ for the remote.xml

The paths to the two files are:

/home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/Lircmap.xml
/home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/Keymap.xml

Be aware that the file names are case sensitive. I don't know which file you refer to with 'remote.xml'.

I am running a recent SVN. They changed the keymap.xml to a folder called keymaps. In which remote.xml subtitutes the keymap.xml.

I will check this weekend in how to trick my XBMC live to let me edit my files and will report back.

With the latest SVN changes does the Lircmap.xml still go in /home/xbmc.xbmc/userdata/?

I'm trying to change the mapping of the <title> action to the Guide button on my MCE remote.

I've copied the whole MCE section of Lircmap.xml, edited <title>Guide</title>, and copied the xml file to /home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/ but XBMC is not picking up the change in mapping.

Any tips on where to place my customised Lircmap.xml? I'm running an updated Live hard disk installation, so don't have easy root access to the system files.

Edit: Okay, it would help if I put </lircmap> at the end of my xml file.

Custom file located at /home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/Lircmap.xml and all working fine.

Is there a gui out there to make this easy?