[Buadhai]

I have an unbranded USB MCE remote that looks like this:



I learned how to create a keyboard.xml file for it here:

Kodi Wiki: Unbranded MCE Remote

I used these key mappings:

Code:

<one mod="ctrl,alt">YourAction1</one> <!-- Green -->
<two mod="ctrl,alt">YourAction2</two> <!-- Orange -->
<three mod="ctrl,alt">YourAction3</three> <!-- Blue -->
<four mod="ctrl,alt">YourAction4</four> <!-- Yellow —>

The other day I upgraded my Raspberry Pi from Raspbmc to OSMC and a new version of Kodi.

The orange and yellow keys stopped working. It took a while and I needed some help, but I finally found that Orange key presses are no longer interpreted to have sent a ctrl-alt-two, but ctrl-alt-at instead. Ditto for the Yellow key. No longer ctrl-alt-four, but ctrl-alt-dollar.

I edited the keyboard.xml file and all is well.

Here's my question: Why?

Is there some reason why this change was made? Certainly, anyone who followed the Wiki page to create a keyboard.xml file now finds themselves with a remote that no longer functions properly.

Anyway, I'm just curious and baffled and somewhat miffed at having spent the better part of the day getting this sorted.

[dandnsmith]

You're not the only one to have spent time on this, but I guess, from the username, you've seen my latest offering as to usable codes for those keys.
The degradation started a long time back, when a user from whom I got the basis for my RaspBMC mappings posted that he could no longer use the top line of buttons (and I couldn't get usable results for these), which would have been pre-frodo.
Later, various other keys changed, and now a scheme which is more consistent with key labelling is:
ctrl-alt-a ctrl-alt-b ctrl-alt-c ctrl-alt-d
for those keys.

[Buadhai]

I just can't stop wondering why something like this would be changed. Was it really necessary, or was it a mistake, or is it a byproduct of some other change?

This is the sort of thing that keeps me up at night.