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I have the same issue, I setup the Playback buttons on ATV2 in the Learn More menu and when I try to use them in XBMC they don't seem to work, especially the Play button, this is with my satellite remote. It seems to work with the Apple silver remote.
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Yes, I have the same problem. My remote is all configured and working for xbmc on osx but doesn't work on atv2. If I press play, pause, stop etc I just get a funny beep. I've gone cross-eyed looking at all the keymap guides etc without much luck.
Davilla, you mentioned it will be fixed in a future release. Any ideas when that may be so I can look out for it or put it from my mind?
p.s. I agree with the others exceptional work getting this working on atv2. This is the only reason I bought a ATV2.
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At the moment my Harmony is just set up as an AppleTV remote. How do set it up in the Logitech software to take advantage of these new settings?
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+1 for harmony remote settings. I tried configuring XBMC(created by someone) in harmony but nothing worked so had to revert back to ATV2 settings.
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Guys,
If your Harmony is set up as "Apple TV", the new buttons should just work without any further tweaking. Logitech already mapped the newly exposed BREvent to the actual buttons on the remote controller.
Once you update to the latest nightly build, you'll find that play, pause, fast forward, rewind, skip forward, skip backwards, stop, page down and page up buttons on the remote now executes the appropriate XBMC commands.
As Enigma pointed out, some buttons such as play, pause are redundant with select...which essentially play and pause your movie on the ATV2. That's a good thing, because that means you can easily map those redundant buttons via your Harmony Remote software to do something else. Then simply customize your joystick.AppleRemote.xml to execute other XBMC commands.
Some additional XBMC commands I like to add are "ShowCodec" and "ShowSubtitles". Simply edit the <FullscreenVideo> section of the xml to add/edit the button mappings.
@EngmaMaster,
The file that has the conflict BREvent id that prevents fast forward and pause buttons from getting recognized is smframework. This file is installed when BTStack is installed, but it is possible that it's used with other plugins you may have installed. Unfortunately, uninstalling BTStack does not necessarily uninstall smframework. The author of that file is already aware of the bug and I see that he already made the fix. However, I don't know if the fix has been compiled and hit the appropriate repos yet.
So it's not a XBMC issue per se. But it should be rectified in the near future for those affected once the updated smframework gets rolled to the appropriate channels.
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Many thanks Dazex that is vey helpfull. Look forward to the fix from which ever source it comes.
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Where I could find the joystick.AppleRemote.xml on my aTV? Which remote I must the harmony set up? As a aTV2?