[lapino]

Just got an Apple remote. Works fine out of the box, but would like to change the "up" and "down" function when playing a movie from volume up/down (which doesn't work anyway using hdmi) to skip next/previous chapter like it is when using the keyboard. How do I do this?

[Ned Scott]

Open this and save it as joystick.AppleRemote.xml: https://raw.github.com/xbmc/xbmc/master/...Remote.xml

Save it to:
/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/Application Support/XBMC/userdata/keymaps/

open it up in TextEdit and find where it says "<FullscreenVideo>"

In this section you can change what the buttons do when viewing a video. Find the buttons you want to change (in this case, up and down) and change them. A list of options can be seen at:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Keyboard.xml

I believe what you want is: "SkipNext" and "SkipPrevious"
So... Back to the xml file you have open in TextEdit, in the <FullscreenVideo> section, change:

Code:

<button id="1">VolumeUp</button>
      <button id="2">VolumeDown</button>

to this:

Code:

<button id="1">SkipNext</button>
      <button id="2">SkipPrevious</button>

Save and it should work.

[lapino]

Did that, and it fixed the problem but now the "Menu" button doesn't take me back to a previous menu, it just seems to be idle. Only when watching a video it stops the video, but then stops doing anything. Another line I need to edit?

[Ned Scott]

That keymap file is form the latest changes to XBMC, which is on pre-v11, so maybe there was some change between XBMC v10.1 and v11. I'm pretty sure "Back" should still work in both 10 and 11, though. I'll ask around, or maybe dig up my remote for my laptop and load both the stable 10.1 build and the pre-11 build and see if I can reproduce your issue with the back button.