[SheHateMe]

How can I have Kodi automatically start Live TV on the last channel viewed when I press the Live TV button I setup on my harmony remote? Also, I am wondering if this same button can automatically go back to LiveTV when watching a recording.

I know you can have Live TV autostart on the last channel at startup...but I don't want it to do that.

Is this possible? Does anyone have this setup? Please, help a sista out.

[Talguy]

The only way I got this working for me was to use Eventghost. Eventghost would read in my key presses and then if it determined I pressed the Live TV button on my remote it would send a JSON command to xbmc. The command was Input.ExecuteAction(playpvrtv).

See this post.

Action IDs

FYI, I am on windows 7, using Eventghost as my control server software combined with a Tivo Slide Pro remote (only good RF remote I've found)

[xhaggi]

you could use the actions PlayPVR, PlayPVRTV or PlayPVRRadio. see http://kodi.wiki/view/Keymap#Actions

add something like this to the global section of your keyboard.xml or remote.xml:

Code:

<yourkey>PlayPVR</yourkey>

[SheHateMe]

What is the difference between PlayPVR and PlayPVRTV? PlayPVRTV sounds like what I want.

[xhaggi]

PlayPVR continues playback of either TV or Radio depending on which you've played last.

[SheHateMe]

And PlayPVRTV just goes straight to TV?

[xhaggi]

yep that's right

[SheHateMe]

Cool beans, thanks dude. My parents can finally stop complaining about how the Verizon box can just shoot straight to LiveTV lol. I wonder why the keymap editor add-on for XBMC doesn't have an option to set stuff for PlayPVR.

[abandannadan]

its actually under settings, INTERFACE, startup, perform on startup, play tv