2010-10-18, 04:08
After hours of searching these forums and trying everything I can imagine, I'm now posting for help...
I just got a Dell Zino along with a Dell remote (screenshot attached). My problem is that none of the buttons on the remote bring up the Context Menu in XBMC.
I created a custom keyboard.xml file in my user directory, and put the following content in it to map the remote button "9" to the ContextMenu command. This is working. However, I'm not sure why. If I remove the <keyboard> sections from below, it does not work - I'm not sure why they're needed.
Obviously, this is a confusing workaround to get this working. My question is: am I doing this correctly? If not, what should I be doing? I would also like to add more mappings, but I'm not sure how to do this with specific buttons on the remote (i.e. anything other than numbers 0-9).
For example:
1. How would I make the main Windows button on the remote open XBMC instead of Windows Media Center (as it currently does)?
2. How would I make the Home button (upper-left) go to the XBMC home screen (it does nothing currently)?
3. How would I make the Power button (upper-right) close XBMC instead of turning off the Dell Zino (as it currently does)?
Thanks in advance for your help!
<keymap>
<global>
<keyboard>
<nine>ContextMenu</nine>
</keyboard>
<remote>
<nine>ContextMenu</nine>
</remote>
</global>
<ContextMenu>
<keyboard>
<nine>Close</nine>
</keyboard>
<remote>
<nine>Close</nine>
</remote>
</ContextMenu>
</keymap>
I just got a Dell Zino along with a Dell remote (screenshot attached). My problem is that none of the buttons on the remote bring up the Context Menu in XBMC.
I created a custom keyboard.xml file in my user directory, and put the following content in it to map the remote button "9" to the ContextMenu command. This is working. However, I'm not sure why. If I remove the <keyboard> sections from below, it does not work - I'm not sure why they're needed.
Obviously, this is a confusing workaround to get this working. My question is: am I doing this correctly? If not, what should I be doing? I would also like to add more mappings, but I'm not sure how to do this with specific buttons on the remote (i.e. anything other than numbers 0-9).
For example:
1. How would I make the main Windows button on the remote open XBMC instead of Windows Media Center (as it currently does)?
2. How would I make the Home button (upper-left) go to the XBMC home screen (it does nothing currently)?
3. How would I make the Power button (upper-right) close XBMC instead of turning off the Dell Zino (as it currently does)?
Thanks in advance for your help!
<keymap>
<global>
<keyboard>
<nine>ContextMenu</nine>
</keyboard>
<remote>
<nine>ContextMenu</nine>
</remote>
</global>
<ContextMenu>
<keyboard>
<nine>Close</nine>
</keyboard>
<remote>
<nine>Close</nine>
</remote>
</ContextMenu>
</keymap>