[gcdlz]

Is there any way to set up a MCE remote to be able to simply search for a movie in XBMC in the same manner you can with a keyboard?
I am using a remote with eventghost in Win7.

[aptalca]

Yes. JumpSMS will do that.

under users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\xbmc\userdata\keymaps\
create a file named keyboard.xml

Place this code inside of it:

Code:

<keymap>
  <global>
    <keyboard>
      <zero>Number0</zero>
      <one>Number1</one>
      <two>JumpSMS2</two>
      <three>JumpSMS3</three>
      <four>JumpSMS4</four>
      <five>JumpSMS5</five>
      <six>JumpSMS6</six>
      <seven>JumpSMS7</seven>
      <eight>JumpSMS8</eight>
      <nine>JumpSMS9</nine>      
    </keyboard>
  </global>

  <VirtualKeyboard>
    <keyboard>
      <zero>Number0</zero>
      <one>Number1</one>
      <two>Number2</two>
      <three>Number3</three>
      <four>Number4</four>
      <five>Number5</five>
      <six>Number6</six>
      <seven>Number7</seven>
      <eight>Number8</eight>
      <nine>Number9</nine>
   </keyboard>
  </VirtualKeyboard>

  <FullscreenVideo>
    <keyboard>
      <zero>Number0</zero>
      <one>Number1</one>
      <two>Number2</two>
      <three>Number3</three>
      <four>Number4</four>
      <five>Number5</five>
      <six>Number6</six>
      <seven>Number7</seven>
      <eight>Number8</eight>
      <nine>Number9</nine>
    </keyboard>
  </FullscreenVideo>

</keymap>

You should be good to go.
When entering text, you can push the number keys and you will have SMS like input (push number 6 twice to type "n").
When browsing the library, you can push number 5 twice to get to the letter "k"

---Don't forget to also enable "remote sends keyboard presses" in xbmc settings if you haven't done so already

[gcdlz]

Thanks, will give this a try.

[gcdlz]

Thanks, that worked great. Is there possibly a way to rather than just going to the first letter of the movie you are searching for like when you are using a keyboard when you hold the shift key down to type in as many letters in the title of the movie and take you directly to a specific movie?

[aptalca]

Not that I am aware of, sorry

[gcdlz]

Thanks anyway, still very helpful.

[PerfectHT]

Thanks aptalca. It works well on WIN7/Kodi. I designed alpha numeric keyboard with macro to make search easier.
Do you know - by any chance - how to do the same on OpenELEC?

[aptalca]

Thanks aptalca. It works well on WIN7/Kodi. I designed alpha numeric keyboard with macro to make search easier.
Do you know - by any chance - how to do the same on OpenELEC?

Haha you do realize this thread is almost 6 years old, right?

I haven't had to use any of the above code in openelec in a long time as the old jumpsms functionality is built in and set to on by default. Should work out of the box with mce.

Not sure what the state of it is in windows, because I switched to openelec a few years ago