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Is there a way for me to monitor or 'key log' what keys of a keyboard are being pressed into xbmc as I type or click on the keyboard?
I have a whole slew of key mappings with a FLIRC and a harmony, and one of the buttons changed, but I can't figure out which to be able to fix it....
The easiest way is going to be for me to verify what key is being pressed, but I don't know how to do it....
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look in the log file (although xbmc may need to be in debug mode)
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Perfect will do,
so last question with keyboard.xml I can change what that keyboard key does correct? Or would I accomplish that some other way?
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Issue fixed, THanks guys!
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Extra for experts: tail -F (note the capitalisation of -F as opposed to the lower case in the previous example) will survive a new log file being started.
when xbmc is stopped .xbmc/temp/xbmc.log is closed. When xbmc is started again xbmc.log is moved to xbmc.old.log and a new xbmc.log is opened for the new session.
tail -f will not survive this process. tail -F will monitor the new file, giving the ability to start and stop xbmc without having to restart tail.
Also useful for monitoring traditional linux log files in /var/log, which are regularly rotated by the logrotate process.
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