Mudislander Wrote:Recieved remote this morning

Instant problem though, the range really sucks. The dongle is in the back of my heavy aluminium SilverStone case under my 50 inch TV. I would expect to be able to use the remote sitting on the sofa about 3 meters away. To get the remote to work I have to crawl down to the media center stick the remote through so it passes the back of the case & then it'll work.

Has anyone got any ideas on extending the range, I'm not too keen on the idea of a visible extender cable.

BTW no little gift as promised, not an issue though.

mat____ Wrote:Ok, finally got a chance to try it with the Mac based XBMC and while it "works".... it does not "just work".

Not all the keys behave as I'd expect, the play/pause button starts itunes instead of pausing xbmc, and stop does nothing at all. Fast forward works though.

I'm running the most recent pre-eden build, on osx 10.7 and I have tried putting the keyboard.xml file in ~/Library/Application Support/XBMC/userdata/keymaps with little effect.

Malard, any chance of some details of the setup process here?
Thanks.

Malard Wrote:The play/pause etc are standard multimedia keys you would find on your keyboard, so if OSX is taking over them, blame steve jobs Hopefully someone knows how to disable iTunes from taking over.

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Quote:The dongle has a directional antenna

Mudislander Wrote:Yeah I guessed that, whats more it seems to have a very narrow recieving angle ( Well mine does) By changing the batteries I can now operate my PC via the remote, providing I strech as far forward as possible & hold the remote about 6 inches off the floor, which is about the level of the dongle. Still not good enough. Tommorrow I'll play around with turning off all wifi networks & phones & try it on my laptop

mat____ Wrote:re keymapping, incase this helps anyone. On my system I've made a small keyboard.xml file in the userdata/keymaps directory that gets me a context button and a few others, it's shown below and is very simple.

I must be doing it wrong though, as the EPG button sends the F3 key, and the Red button sends SHIFT-F3, but they both do the same task in xbmc, which is why EPG and USER are not defined in my file yet.

the previous track, next track, play/pause and stop seem to send no code at all to xbmc (looking at keypress events in the log) but I'm still looking into that. Anyway, here's the file.

Code:

<keymap>
  <global>
    <keyboard>
      <f3 mod="leftshift">ContextMenu</f3>       <!-- RED     Context menu         -->
      <f4 mod="leftshift">FullScreen</f4>        <!-- GREEN   Display menu overlay -->
      <f5 mod="leftshift">ShowSubtitles</f5>     <!-- YELLOW  Subtitles            -->
      <f6 mod="leftshift">AudioNextLanguage</f6> <!-- BLUE    Switch audio track   -->
      <home>XBMC.ActivateWindow(Home)</home>     <!-- MENU    Jump to main menu    -->
      <f3></f3>                                  <!-- EPG                          -->
      <f4></f4>                                  <!-- USER                         -->
    </keyboard>
  </global>
</keymap>

Malard Wrote:try:

<f3 mod="shift">

and <f3>

mat____ Wrote:That seems to have been changed in the recent nightlies, here's some log information:
...
So it may be something to do with the current nightly builds. Anyone else had any luck?

jhsrennie Wrote:Since about a month ago shift is ignored so shift-F3 is the same as F3. The reasons for this are involved and to do with legacy behaviour, but be assured that the change in behaviour fixes more than it breaks.
JR

Malard Wrote:Gift is digital (not physical) and it's announced next week!

Malard Wrote:The dongle has a directional antenna (just found this out from Motorola) so put the dongle in a usb hub, or at the front of the case and your range will come back!

Mudislander Wrote:Edit Some good news, just retried it on my laptop & it's brilliant, I can use the remote out of the lounge & into the kitchen. Whats more the angle it receives from seems a lot better.