[JaKai]

I recently purchased the Vista MCE remote from maplin (here) and as one of the reviews says, it works pretty much straight out of the box with XBMC live.

The problem I have is a few of the important buttons don't work. I saw this same type referred to on the wiki (ortec VRC 1100) with how to add in the extra coloured buttons but I haven't been able to do this despite following numerous guides.

Anyhow, my major problem is that the power button doesn't do anything and neither do the fast forward and rewind buttons. I'm a linux noob but I managed to access the keymap.xml but anything I added didn't seem to change anything. Could anyone possibly assist me in getting these buttons working and how to change the function of the existing ones?

Thanks very much

JaKai

[Flomaster]

please read:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=5...post568891
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=5...post564705
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=5...post560035

-=Jason=-

[g0pkh]

Send it back and get this one.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=218643

it works beautifully. I have one on 9.11 live running on linux

Pete

[Flomaster]

x2 I've not seen anyone have any luck with that POS chinavasion remote. yeah it kinda sorta works out of the box, but for the time your going to spend to get it working flawlessly your betting off spending $5-10 MORE on a known working remote.

-=Jason=-

[JaKai]

Many thanks for the quick response. I'm guessing its not as easy as I assumed it would be to map those buttons. Just goes to show that trying to cut corners and save money early on costs you in the long run. I'll make sure I get a proper Microsoft remote next time.

This will do for now, if anyone does have an easy quick fix, I'm still all ears

[JaKai]

I've been tinkering further with this and think I may have found what I need to do. I found this page on the wiki: Using_an_MCE_remote_control_in_Windows and downloaded the showkey app, installed on my windows machine to find out what the key presses are (as I can't get irw working on my xbmc live install)

Showkey shows the fast forward and rewind buttons with KeyID:

VK_F (I'm assuming the VK part is generic for all keys on the remote?)
and
VK_B

and some code to copy to my keymap.xml:

<f mod="ctrl,shift">Notification(Key, f, 3)</f>
<b mod="ctrl,shift">Notification(Key, b, 3)</b>

I altered these lines in the keymap.xml in $home/.xbmc/userdata/keymaps/keymap.xml via WinSCP and rebooted my XBMC box. The fast forward and rewind buttons still don't work. I've looked at Lirc etc but couldn't get it to work (recording key presses, displaying output etc)

I'm pretty sure all I need to do is find out the codes the buttons are sending and add them into the keymap (i.e. a genuine mce remote might use forward and mine uses Fforward or something). Am I going about this the right way or am I still no closer to a solution? Thanks very much.

[JaKai]

An update, if I edit the keyboard.xml by taking out existing entries (up down etc) then they stop working until added back in so I'm pretty sure thats where I need to make changes, but adding the new code in there . Any help guys, I cant help feeling I'm very close!

[JaKai]

Last bump

[patnyc]

try this

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=63152