[scarecrow420]

You won't need to do anything to the remote. oE will love your remote as it is.

I've got some custom key presses that take me directly to certain Playlists like "Kids DVDs"

With your harmony setup, are you using the "MCE Keyboard" device to send keyboard keys/codes to XBMC? Eg P for Play X for Stop etc... This is the same way I have mine setup and as you say works perfectly in windows but Ive always wondered whether OpenElec would also honour those keyboard IR codes, or if it only understands the MCE remote commands like Play Stop etc (not keyboard codes A-Z 1-0 tab enter etc). Hopefully it sounds like it may well support them out of the box, which makes it much more easy for me to shift to OE (eg on my celeron NUC where bitstream DTS-MA is not workign due to driver/intel issue, but in OE it's apparently fine). I didnt want to have to redo my logitech remote setup if I was only giving OE "a try"

Sounds interesting binding a keypress to go to certain playlists - what does the XBMC keymap entry for that look like? Are these "smart playlists" or something else? I tried using them but they dont seem to sync between multiple XBMC clients, eventhough Im using the mysql database for shared library. I guess they are stored per client which makes it a bit less friendly to set them up if you have multiple clients. How have you done a smart playlist for kids movies, for example (what criteria did you use)? It would be best if I could just have a key mapped to go to a file/folder location rather than a playlist, is that possible?