XBMC gets dedicated remote - Motorola Nyxboard

Looks like Motorola is excepting pre-orders...

http://www.tested.com/news/motorola-made...sale/2118/

This is bound to be one of the better remotes with IR for your TV and RF for the HTPC and Boxee type keyboard with gyro

Slashdot announce

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04...ted-Remote

joebrady Wrote:What are the colored buttons mapped to?

I Don't know, but should be for example:
Red->TV
Green->Movies
Yellow->TV Shows
Blue->Music

no?

That does look good. Is it team-xbmc endorsed though like the android app?

Yep

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=80968

dangermoose Wrote:Its just a little too expensive though! If it was around $40 then I would love it.

I looked at that price point, but we would lose a bunch of features that I thought would make the experience much better, the IR layer, (its RF for xbmc and then you program the IR to control amp/dvd/tv etc) and also the toggle switch, basically when you flip the remote over, a signal gets sent to xbmc so we can auto pop up search, flip it back and we action that search, so no need for the mouse in any situation really!

If you need the mouse, its a d-pad. But I am working on a skin designed for the remote, as such things like the Red Green Yellow Blue buttons will get used as soft-keys to access various sub functions.

Malard Wrote:I looked at that price point, but we would lose a bunch of features that I thought would make the experience much better, the IR layer, (its RF for xbmc and then you program the IR to control amp/dvd/tv etc) and also the toggle switch, basically when you flip the remote over, a signal gets sent to xbmc so we can auto pop up search, flip it back and we action that search, so no need for the mouse in any situation really!

If you need the mouse, its a d-pad. But I am working on a skin designed for the remote, as such things like the Red Green Yellow Blue buttons will get used as soft-keys to access various sub functions.

I just ordered mine.

Very good to hear. I'm a long time MCSE remote user (I keep purchasing them for friends' XBMC boxes that I also build) and I'm rather used to PM3. I keep trying others, but they're never really what I want. I'd love it if the skin keeps the paradigms set up by PM3.

Why is it not backlit And also lack of F keys in the keyboard area seems quite disappointing.

Malard would have that answer. But my guess is to keep the price down and to conserve battery life.

Back lit wasnt possible in this version, generally speaking, when your searching your probably not going to be in the movie at that point (at least thats how i looked at it)

Cost was almost certainly a factor, its already 'not cheap' and its got a stack of features that allow you to do things faster and easier, as i've stated already, searching is more ergonomic, to pull that off (which is lets face it the reason why we need a keyboard in the first place) not cheap to R&D

What do you find disappointing about the F keys?

PatK, its actually me (Pulse-Eight) that is accepting the pre-orders, Motorola is just building them for us, as we are short on electrical engineering man hours in the team (and a factory to make them) [Although donations welcome!]

That's pretty awesome. If I didn't already have a Harmony One I'd order one of those.