2012-04-24, 04:52
I found out that you can program the Apple TV 2 remote to learn another remote. I'm sure most people knew that. The interesting thing I found is that you can use the same remote to learn the same functions but with different buttons. The reason that can be good is because, when you are in a menu or a list of movies or songs, you don't need to rewind or fast forward (unless maybe if you leave something playing). So what you can do is have the Apple TV 2 learn the remote buttons for rewind and fast forward and then have them learn those again with different buttons (like vol up and vol down). That way, you can program XBMC to use rewind to jump up one letter (PrevLetter) and fast forward to just down one letter (NextLetter). Then you can jump one letter at a time using the vol up and vol down instead of (or actually, in addition to) using rewind and fast forward.
So far I reuse some buttons to jump letter by letter (in lists) and other buttons to show codec info (in video playing) and exit XBMC.
Maybe nobody will care or maybe everybody already knows this. Just thought I would post it anyway. I haven't tested a lot but what I have done seems to work so far.
J_K_M_A_N
So far I reuse some buttons to jump letter by letter (in lists) and other buttons to show codec info (in video playing) and exit XBMC.
Maybe nobody will care or maybe everybody already knows this. Just thought I would post it anyway. I haven't tested a lot but what I have done seems to work so far.
J_K_M_A_N