Will the Boxee Box Remote work with XBMC (on any hardware other than the Boxee Box?)?

AaronCompNetSys · 2010-12-04 06:02

Right, the remote by itself comes with a RF dongle. The host just sees it like a normal keyboard as far as I can tell.

bigdog66 · 2010-12-04 06:14

Who cares....get yourself a Rii

i have no idea what issues with "keymappings" are on "all" remotes because all the keys on my backlit Rii just work

Seriously I hope you guys who have to have this Boxee remote get it sorted....so you can have a fully functional remote like me....well minus being backlit....lol

so mine will always be perfect

ok ok....really ...Good Luck

**prae5** · 2010-12-04 23:59

AaronCompNetSys Wrote:Just got mine in today. Every button press reboots the XBMC app on XBMC Live. I have no idea where to start.

Drop to command prompt, remote works perfectly. So I guess I need a keymap or something. Lamezors.

Similar problems exist when using boxee under Ubunutu too:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2KI6LD8STA...&linkCode=

http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-7317

AaronCompNetSys · 2010-12-05 04:11

Back to Win7 and XBMC is working a charm with the remote and my keymap. The range is ridiculous, I went on the other side of the house and down a floor into the basement and it still worked.

The remote brings it out of sleep just fine, but now I'm having the sleep problem that others describe where XBMC and Boxee both crap out on resume from sleep. Prolly something to do with the video card as it actually functions, just the graphics and sound are missing.

Loaded up Boxee to try out as a front end to Netflix. Surprisingly, there are a couple places in the UI where the "Menu" button mapping on their own remote is kinda weird and you get stuck. And the Netflix app (and all the other flash based players) are just plain horrible in Boxee. After a while the whole design idea of the Boxee interface starts to make more sense with a remote with just the 2 extra buttons on front, before on PC with keyboard/mouse it seemed like a joke.

I'm going to ditch Boxee for Chrome, just resorting to keep a mouse handy to queue a movie. I'm making an AHK script now to map the remote buttons to something for when Netflix is fullscreen.

I'll also probably make a script that can be launched by hotkey that kills XBMC and Chrome before suspend, and then bring a selection menu to the front upon resume to choose to launch XBMC or Netflix via Chrome.

AaronCompNetSys · 2010-12-08 22:21

So here is my AHK script to remap the buttons on the Boxee remote for using Netflix inside Chrome. The idea is you use the mouse to navigate the website, and once you click "Play" or "Resume" to launch the player, the hotkeys become active. The sendclicks is to ensure the clicks are being sent to the plugin. The menu button already exits fullscreen, so that one is fine. I didn't remap the play button yet because for some reason there is a discrepancy on what I'm seeing on my laptop (WinXP) compared to the HTPC (Win7). I'll set that later. The OK button pauses it right now. The timer is a sleep mode preventer.

Code:

#NoEnv

#Persistent

SetTitleMatchMode 2

SetTimer, CheckWindowsState, % 1000*30 ; Poll every 30 seconds

CheckWindowsState:

If (WinActive("ahk_class AGFullScreenWinClass") )

;If (WinActive("ahk_class ShockwaveFlashFullScreen") )

{

   SendInput {Alt Up}

;   MsgBox Full!

}

Return

#IfWinActive Netflix Movie Viewer

enter::

Click 400, 400

Sleep 300

Send f

Sleep 300

MouseMove, 0, 100

return

#IfWinActive ahk_class AGFullScreenWinClass

left::^left

right::^right

I know this isn't really related to XBMC, but eventually I'll have a launcher for XBMC built into this script.

quincer · 2010-12-27 00:22

So many questions.
Since it's available it looks like : http://www.jr.com/dlink/pe/DLK_DSM22/#productTabReviews
Has anyone tried this on an xbmc?
Configuration?

AaronCompNetSys · 2010-12-27 20:56

quincer Wrote:Has anyone tried this on an xbmc?
Configuration?

That's the retailer I bought from. As you could see in previous posts, it works fine in XBMC.

But apparently, there is a bug in X that keeps it from working properly on Linux.

Hopping through the Boxee forum then to XBMC Trac, http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10887

The Windows 7 sleep mode is really getting on my nerves. I might switch back to Ubuntu and try to get this patch on X to see if it resolved the issue.

Adeiko · 2011-01-04 19:29

Any news on this?

I've a htpc with ubuntu and i'm looking for a remote, and Boxee is the most attractive one. But wanna know if it works before i buy it Confused

billyprefect · 2011-01-07 07:48

The remote works better with XBMC in Windows than it does with Boxee in Windows IMHO - but right now I'm working on getting something going with an Ubuntu install to ditch Windows, and so far I'm not winning.

Button mapping was automatic in Windows 7 Pro, no issues, no miscues, worked fantastic even. Highly recommended. Even my wife liked it, and that has to count for someething!

In OpenELEC.tv, it crashes, and takes the system down with it.

Downloading the latest LIVECD version of XBMC right now - won't know till tomorrow, but I'm not hopeful, and am thinking I'm back to Windows to use the remote at this point.

AaronCompNetSys · 2011-01-07 16:31

Sorry I'm a bum and haven't tried patching X yet. I've still got it planned when I have free time.

AaronCompNetSys Junior Member Posts: 36 Joined: Sep 2009 Reputation: 0	2010-12-04 06:02 Post: #41 Right, the remote by itself comes with a RF dongle. The host just sees it like a normal keyboard as far as I can tell.
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quincer Junior Member Posts: 6 Joined: Dec 2010 Reputation: 0	2010-12-27 00:22 Post: #46 So many questions. Since it's available it looks like : http://www.jr.com/dlink/pe/DLK_DSM22/#productTabReviews Has anyone tried this on an xbmc? Configuration?
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Adeiko Senior Member Posts: 138 Joined: Sep 2010 Reputation: 0	2011-01-04 19:29 Post: #48 Any news on this? I've a htpc with ubuntu and i'm looking for a remote, and Boxee is the most attractive one. But wanna know if it works before i buy it
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AaronCompNetSys Junior Member Posts: 36 Joined: Sep 2009 Reputation: 0	2011-01-07 16:31 Post: #50 Sorry I'm a bum and haven't tried patching X yet. I've still got it planned when I have free time.
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