[azrael17]

Sounds like your remote isn't sending the right keypress. Does the guide come up if you hit "Enter" on a connected keyboard?

Yes, seems to be working with the enter-key. Do you know how I can bind it to the guide-key of my harmony? I'm using the keymap editor addon.

Additional questions:

A) message/dialogue boxes:

Is there any way to not show the various message and dialogue boxes which are pretty intrusive and destroy the TV experience? Talking about these three:
1. Local content being buffered/loaded - a small "loading" message box is displayed at the top
2. YouTube content being loaded - a pretty big dialogue box (even containing an abort-button) is displayed in the center of the screen
3. Background operations (eg. channel was auto-setup) - a small message box is displayed at the top
It would be nice to not show these elements plus to preload/buffer the corresponding content before/while the currently playing show is ending.

B) trailer/ads:

Between two shows, it seems there is YouTube content being loaded and showed like trailers. I guess I activated that somewhere in the settings. Would it be possible to add an option to define a video file/folder (similar to the bumpers) that shows a small video introducing that trailers/ads come next? This would also be a nice way to add some time for it to preload/buffer the content which will come next.

Also nice would be to define a sound file saying "coming up next" which is played when the little preview window in the right-bottom is introducing the upcoming program and/or a video file with a "coming up next" animation followed by fanart/info which is played after the ads/trailers and before the new show starts.

C) multiple YouTube channels in one:

Is it possible to create eg. a comedy channel which plays videos from various different YouTube channels?

Sorry for the many questions but love the potential of this addon :-)

For A) There's a disable notification options that should take care of most of those, under set top mode and also for artwork downloader

B) not sure about that one.

C) You would have to do that by creating a public playlist via your you tube page, and then create a channel that uses only that playlist. Add the videos from the different channels to that playlst. It won't be completely dynamic, in that videos that you add to the playlist won't automatically queue up and play on that channel, but new videos will show up after channel refreshes.

B) You should be able to go into settings>commercials/bumpers and choose "local folders" instead of internet sources. Then you can set the folder to pull from.

C) No disrespect to Thor, but don't do what he is telling you. While it will work and is useful for certain situations, it does not seem ideal for what you want. You CAN set up a Multi-Channel/User Youtube channel. A lot of the community list channels are actually set up exactly that way (for example a "Video Games" channel might pull content from both the IGN and Gamespot channels/users). To figure out the proper way to set up such a channel, look at the various Youtube templates on Page 1 of the Thread.

Pro-tip: When looking through the PTVL settings there are a number of tabs on the top of the settings box. Don't be fooled, these are NOT ALL of the tabs available. If you highlight them you can arrow over and access more tabs with more settings. This is where you should find the trailers/bumpers tab.

Good Luck.