[DuaneDibbley]

I have the "Unbranded MCE Remote" listed in the Remote Control Reviews and I would really like to have a way of opening a context menu from the remote without using the incredibly awkward and unwieldy mouse emulator. I have entered <f4 mod="ctrl,alt">ContextMenu</f4> into my keyboard.xml file like the wiki suggests, but that doesn't affect the remote, only the keyboard. I have also put
<remote>
<f4 mod="ctrl,alt">ContextMenu</f4>
</remote>
into my local keymap.xml but that just results in "ERROR: Remote Translator: Can't find button f4" in my log.

Please help.

EDIT:Nevermind, solved it with by using <key id=389284> under <keyboard> in my keymap.xml

[jhsrennie]

Glad you've sorted it now.

I'd guess it's this remote you have: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Rem...MCE_remote. If so, the remote appears to the PC to be a keyboard so if your key definition works on the keyboard it should also work with the remote.

Incidentally, that mysterious number, 389284, is hex 0x5F0A4. The "5" indicates "ctr-alt", the "F0" indicates it's a (emulated) keypress and "A4" is the left alt key so you've actually defined the keypress "ctrl-alt-leftalt". It looks as if your remote is not sending ctrl-alt-F4. If you're using Windows you might want to try the Showkey applet from http://xbmcmce.sourceforge.net/ as that will show you what the remote is sending.

JR

[anza]

I am using the same or a similar remote under Ubuntu Linux and I've written down how I got it to work with lirc and xbmc allowing mapping of most of the buttons. It's at http://xbmcworkshop.wordpress.com/2010/1...-and-xbmc/ Hopefully it will be of use to somebody. The process should be similar with any remote acting as a USB keyboard.

[magnosantos]

And how can you stop the behaviour inside Windows or Windows related functions?

Example: Show desktop, Windows Logo Key, etc...

I ask this, since for me all of what we are doing is configuring a bunch of key presses combinations of the remote, to correspond to a scpecif function on XBMC. Am i wrong?

The only thing that i want the remote to do in Windows desktop is to start XBMC, and once inside XBMC only Alt+F4 (close) to work, and anything else should be only related to XBMC.

[artrafael]

These "MCE remotes" are basically mini-keyboards, so their buttons correspond to regular keyboard buttons or to keyboard shortcuts used by Windows.

[jhsrennie]

You can't stop the Windows key combinations working because Windows grabs them before XBMC gets a chance.