XBMC Cheat Sheet

Chanders, I too created a cheatsheet some time ago after (surprisngly) I couldn't find anything online anywhere.

http://www.virusav.com/XBMC/xbmc.pdf

Beat you to it (5 months ago!) Google's put you to the top of the search though now, I guess I chose the wrong place to post a link to it (reddit).

I'm currently doing a second revision, that is a bit more in-depth, going into how to edit keymap.xml and add extra functionality.

Two of the best entries so far foor me have been a key to select the next visualisation preset (and previous too) and also more importantly a key to popup a search box when browsing media. This is a killer feature, it would be nice to see this pushed upstream and added by default.

Anyhow, keep up the good work. Perhaps we should see if the xbmc team would host an open-source cheatsheet/guide on their site. That would be sweet. In the meantime it's me and you sonny.

You's is perfect for under the keyboard btw. Mine is a little more of a reference sheet to keep to hand (or on your desktop/phone).

Peace

The keymaps xml files are already open-source cheat sheets.

Sweet would be if Xbmc create a new built in function
<...>keymap</...>
This action would show the actions available in the present xml file onscreen.
Always up to date and if it's customised you'll see those actions to.

Awesome if there was also an editor, with pre set list of all availble actions/functions.

Just a thought.....
Open onscreen keymap, contextmenu add action, push button remote which you want to add and choose from list which action/function to use.

@ n3uromanc3r No wories, the more the merrier, until we have the Ultimate cheet sheet.. I have edited the first post to include yours also

@Waffa You mean something like this?



Thats from a greasemonkey script for Gmail

Yes, a dialog that only show the actions available in the xml you are.

example:You're in Fullscreen video (VideoFullScreen.xml)
You want to see these actions (+ the global actions)

<FullscreenVideo>
<keyboard>
<f>FastForward</f>
<r>Rewind</r>
<period>StepForward</period>
<comma>StepBack</comma>
<backspace>Fullscreen</backspace>
<quote>SmallStepBack</quote>
<opensquarebracket>BigStepForward</opensquarebracket>
<closesquarebracket>BigStepBack</closesquarebracket>
<return>OSD</return>
<enter>OSD</enter>
<m>OSD</m>
<i>Info</i>
<o>CodecInfo</o>
<z>AspectRatio</z>
<t>ShowSubtitles</t>
<l>NextSubtitle</l>
<left>StepBack</left>
<right>StepForward</right>
<up>BigStepForward</up>
<down>BigStepBack</down>
<a>AudioDelay</a>
<escape>Fullscreen</escape>
<v>XBMC.ActivateWindow(Teletext)</v>
</keyboard>
</FullscreenVideo>

But really the best part would be if we could edit them within xbmc.
Would be much more userfriendly to mod your keymap.

Good idea, thanks!

You could make the home screen fanart an image of the cheat sheet... until you knew it by heart..

That on-screen cheat sheet linked to F1/Help key I think it would be a great idea.

Would having f1/some other key bring up a help menu be something which could be done solely within a skin or would it require altering some deeper part of the system?

Thanks, Chanders. This is great!

Both of these links are now dead, anyone willing to repost either?