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Hello

I am using Ubuntu 12.10 minimal / XBMC 12.1 with a IMON IR receiver that is inside my OrigenAE M10 HTPC case.

I am not using LIRC (As when that was installed I had issues with double commands / presses being sent to XBMC)

I am using IR-KEYTABLE and the inbuilt kernel modules for IR.

I am using a Harmony 895 universal remote control setup as a MCE remote.

I have all the basic MCE buttons working just fine following this guide here

My question is how do I add additional custom buttons ?

For example I wanted a button to bring up the Codec Info - Keyboard shortcut O

I have gotten this working by using an existing MCE remote button that was not in use (The Red button).

This is my /etc/rc_keymaps/imon_mce file


I changed KEY_RED to be KEY_O instead

0x800ff45b KEY_O #Red button - O Diagnostic Codec Info

I did not need to edit the Keyboard.xml file as there is already a line in there that says:

<o>CodecInfo</o>

This works now when I press the Red button whilst a movie is playing the Codec Info is shown on screen.

However my real question is this, how can you add new custom buttons without using existing MCE buttons / hex codes ?

I initially tried to teach my Harmony remote the actual keyboard key of: O using a IR MCE keyboard. But when I pressed this new custom button nothing in ir-keytable -t is detected.

Also I cannot seem to get the discrete PowerOn / PowerOff commands working only PowerToggle.

Thanks

When I run ir-keytable -t and press the discrete PowerOn button on the Harmony remote it returns:

1367237866.629620: event MSC: scancode = 800ff429
1367237866.629620: event sync

I thought I could then edit the imon_mce keymap file and add my own new custom key ? So I added the following line:

0x800ff429 KEY_POWERON #Discrete PowerOn

I then reloaded the keymap and ran ir-keytable -t again and pressed PowerOn button on the Harmony again, expecting it now to say KEY_POWERON but it does not and still just looks like this:


Is it possible to add new scan codes / keys in to the imon_mce keymap file ?

If I press a standard MCE button whilst ir-keytable -t is running is outputs something like:


800ff40d is the scancode that is in the imon_mce keymap file, but where does 0x0001 come from?


Thanks

This is the original un-modified imon_mce keymap file from the /lib/udev/rc_keymaps/ folder.

There are 77 predefined scancodes / keys, which it seems I cannot add my own new custom codes / keys in to this file?

If that is the case, then I am limited in the number of custom buttons I can add, using the existing predefined scancodes that are not being used, like Red button etc.

Can anyone shed more light on how this is meant to work?


Thanks

(2013-04-29, 14:21)cw-kid Wrote: [ -> ]800ff40d is the scancode that is in the imon_mce keymap file, but where does 0x0001 come from?

I found where the other values such as 0x0001 come from:-

http://tomoyo.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/lxr...put.h#L550

For example from ir-keytable -t:

1367251776.107384: event MSC: scancode = 200002a
1367251776.107384: event key down: KEY_BACK (0x009e)
1367251776.107384: event sync

From the Tomoyo page on Sourceforge:

371 #define KEY_BACK 158 /* AC Back */

158 in DEC is 0x009e HEX

But still no closer though to adding new custom commands.

So presumably I can add in any Keyname from the list on the Tomoyo page in to the imon_mce keymap file? I have tried this for KEY_POWER2 and I assigned the scancode: 0x800f042a which is the discrete PowerOff on the Harmony.

Now when I run ir-keytable -t and press the PowerOff button it looks like this:


But I am unsure what to put in to the keyboard.xml I tried <power2>XBMC.ShutDown()</power2> but doesnt seem to work.
So I guess the question would be what Keynames can be used in the Keyboard.xml file?

EDIT: Looks like these are the only keynames you can use in the keyboard.xml file. Although this might work:

Note that even keys that aren't in the list can be used in keyboard.xml with the syntax:
<key id="xxx">Action</key>

There is no entry in the XBMC log for keynames that are not already in the keyboard.xml file, so how the heck are you meant to work out what the key ID is ?

Just tried: <key id="0164">XBMC.ShutDown()</key> and <key id="356">XBMC.ShutDown()</key> in the keyboard.xml file which don't work.

Got a big head ache now, can anyone help?

From memory, I needed to add custom key entries (KEY_POWER2 for you) to lircmap.XML, but as your using just ir-keytable this may not apply to you.

(2013-04-30, 00:03)teeedubb Wrote: [ -> ]From memory, I needed to add custom key entries (KEY_POWER2 for you) to lircmap.XML, but as your using just ir-keytable this may not apply to you.

Hi

I couldn't get it working properly with LIRC installed I had double commands / presses being sent to XBMC. Which is why I had to uninstall LIRC and do in all in kernel with the newer IR-keytable and in kernel IR module.

All the guides seem to be older ones for LIRC, going round in circles now!

Cheers

Have you tried adding keypower2 to lircmap.xml without using lirc? Just a stabb in the dark...

Maybe what I am trying to do is just not possible with ir-keytable / in kernel IR module. For those of you using LIRC how did you disable the in kernel stuff ? To stop the double commands / presses ?

Thanks

There is quite a bit about remotes here, I have found it helpful in the past.

http://linhes.org/projects/linhes/wiki/A...tomization

By the way that file at the tomoyo site is part of the kernel, take a look in

/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-39/include/linux/input.h

Substituting 3.2.0-39 for your kernel version of course.

Hi there,

I have just the same question http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=164262

When you start reading http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Keyboard you'll get the intention to edit /.xbmc/userdata/keyboard.xml

But I have no luck neither, but somewhere these keyboard presses need to be translated to proper xbmc commands

Please help
Kind Regards

I too am wondering how to do this. I am in the exact same situation as you. See my post here:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1420796

There has to be a way to map IR-Keytable names to XBMC commands, otherwise none of the standard keys would work!

(2013-05-14, 16:49)NinjaMonkeyUK Wrote: [ -> ]I too am wondering how to do this. I am in the exact same situation as you. See my post here:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1420796

There has to be a way to map IR-Keytable names to XBMC commands, otherwise none of the standard keys would work!

I read your post seems you have the same questions as myself, if you figure it out please let us know!

Cheers

Unfortunately I haven't had any free time over the last few weeks to do any more work on this, which means I'm gradually falling even further behind on my TV shows and films!

I've had a few websites to build lately so haven't had much free time, but hopefully I'll be able to get back on it over the coming weeks. There must be information somewhere on how IR-Keytable names are mapped into XBMC - once we find that I think we are good to go!