2011-10-08, 10:08
I've been sitting on this for a while. I made it a while ago when I couldn't get the faux-MCE remote to work on my girlfriend's XBMC setup.
It's obviously not done, the XBMC host is hard coded. There is no help. But it does what it does. Compiles on OS X and Linux. If you're not going to use it on the localhost you'll need to edit the source and change it.
https://github.com/jedediahfrey/xbmc-terminal-keyboard
Known bugs: everything goes nuts with the virtual keyboard is up on the screen. Nothing works. Debug log is showing that it's sending the exact same key as the real keyboard, but for some reason there is a disconnect between sending stuff over the eventserver and the real keyboard.
Basically 95% of the time I use it for the arrow keys and 'enter'.
The other 5% of the time I use "c" to pull up the context menu.
And it's usually used when LIRC is acting up, event server is much more responsive. Or the numerous times that the remote is buried somewhere in the couch.
Hopefully someone finds it a bit useful.
It's obviously not done, the XBMC host is hard coded. There is no help. But it does what it does. Compiles on OS X and Linux. If you're not going to use it on the localhost you'll need to edit the source and change it.
https://github.com/jedediahfrey/xbmc-terminal-keyboard
Code:
git://github.com/jedediahfrey/xbmc-terminal-keyboard.gitKnown bugs: everything goes nuts with the virtual keyboard is up on the screen. Nothing works. Debug log is showing that it's sending the exact same key as the real keyboard, but for some reason there is a disconnect between sending stuff over the eventserver and the real keyboard.
Basically 95% of the time I use it for the arrow keys and 'enter'.
The other 5% of the time I use "c" to pull up the context menu.
And it's usually used when LIRC is acting up, event server is much more responsive. Or the numerous times that the remote is buried somewhere in the couch.
Hopefully someone finds it a bit useful.