[wotg]

Is it possible to program Harmony 650 to perform the following actions :

1) switching audio stream
2) switching subtitle on/off

[wotg]

Forgot to mention that I am running Kodi in SHIELD TV

[bossanova808]

So depends how your Harmony is set up, but it is certainly possible.  I am not sure how/if the Shield changes anything about this but I suspect it mostly works the same as Kodi with Libreelec or whatever.


IIRC, if you set a key (e.g. one of the programmable screen buttons) to send a Microsoft Media Player - 'Audio' - that will then change the audio language (only if there are multiple languages in the file, otherwise it does nothing).  This triggers the AudioNextLanguage command in Kodi.

For the subtitles, I bind another Harmony key to send 'Subtitle' and I use this in my keymap.xml file (which is stored in userdata/keymaps IIRC).

xml:


<keymap>

  <FullscreenVideo>

    <remote>

      <Title>ShowSubtitles</Title>

      <mypictures>ActivateWindow(SubtitleSearch)</mypictures> <!-- download subs --> 

    </remote>

  </FullscreenVideo>

</keymap>

...that toggles subtitles. 

(If you want to use a subtitle other than the default one, you still have to go into the menus (or you could instead use NextSubtitle if you want to set up a button to cycle through available subs but that can get annoying if your files have like 20 different languages in them...)

You can also see I have bound the subtitles downloader to another Harmony key I have set to send MyPictures, which is pretty handy.

[wotg]

So depends how your Harmony is set up, but it is certainly possible.  I am not sure how/if the Shield changes anything about this but I suspect it mostly works the same as Kodi with Libreelec or whatever.


IIRC, if you set a key (e.g. one of the programmable screen buttons) to send a Microsoft Media Player - 'Audio' - that will then change the audio language (only if there are multiple languages in the file, otherwise it does nothing).  This triggers the AudioNextLanguage command in Kodi.

For the subtitles, I bind another Harmony key to send 'Subtitle' and I use this in my keymap.xml file (which is stored in userdata/keymaps IIRC).

xml:


<keymap>

  <FullscreenVideo>

    <remote>

      <Title>ShowSubtitles</Title>

      <mypictures>ActivateWindow(SubtitleSearch)</mypictures> <!-- download subs --> 

    </remote>

  </FullscreenVideo>

</keymap>

...that toggles subtitles. 

(If you want to use a subtitle other than the default one, you still have to go into the menus (or you could instead use NextSubtitle if you want to set up a button to cycle through available subs but that can get annoying if your files have like 20 different languages in them...)

You can also see I have bound the subtitles downloader to another Harmony key I have set to send MyPictures, which is pretty handy.

Thanks bossanova808.  I have edited the Keymap in Windows previously, but haven't tried in Android.  Where is the Keymap file located in Android and what app would you recommend to edit it?

[bossanova808]

That's what Google is for, and no idea off the top of my head...but it is there somewhere!

[hn3012]

There is a plugin for that Keymap editor or something similar. You find it on the default kodi repository