Sending keyboard keys via JSON
#1
I've spent a couple hours reading these forums, old GitHub issues, all kinds of stuff trying to figure out what happened to the old SendKey API that allowed sending simple keyboard keystrokes to XBMC, but no real luck so far. A lot of references seem to indicate it is either broken, doesn't exist, or is part of some other API, or who knows.

Would love to just get a straightforward answer to what the correct way in the JSON API is to send keys? In other words, user types 'A' on the keyboard, I want to send that to XBMC via the JSON API. What is the syntax for that?

Thanks much.
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#2
Well all is in the master thread and Wiki Smile

There's no way to send pure keyboard actions to Xbmc via JSON to trigger keymaps.
You can only fill dialogs wit "Input.SendText"
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#3
Is there still no way to emulate local keypresses?
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#4
(2015-04-26, 16:11)nellie7878 Wrote: Is there still no way to emulate local keypresses?
EventServer supports sending keys (Remote / keyboard)

jonib
XBMC2, EventGhost plugin. Image
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