manual commercial skipping?
#1
Most commercials here are around 8 minutes. I want a comfortable way by using a manual binary skipping scheme: skip 8 minutes forward, if too far, 4 minutes back, if too far back, 2 minutes forward and so on.
Is there a addon providing this?
(I don't want comskip or other automatic things)
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#2
You can approximate this by choosing the skip steps in the settings. By default, the setting is 10s, 30s, 1m, 3m, 5m, 10m. So, while watching a program, if you press RIGHT 4 times, it will seek to 3 minutes in the future.

(I find the defaults to be quite adequate, as in the US most commercial breaks are 3 minutes, while reality-type programs tend to have 5 minute breaks. And, the same steps work in reverse: press LEFT twice to seek backwards 30 seconds.)
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#3
Thank you, that makes it a bit easier.
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#4
You can also edit those times.

Man 8 minutes are a lot, ours are about 4 minutes, but maybe more often.
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#5
How do I press "RIGHT" on an android box?
I could use "swipe right" and "swipe left" with the mouse, but kodi does not react to mouse gestures.
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#6
By default, the same skip steps are also mapped to the PREV/NEXT buttons. (In Kodi, these buttons are internally named "skipminus" and "skipplus" if you want to change your keymap.)
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#7
I have kodi in an nvidia shield android box and an MX3 air mouse. 
I think I have to associate the PG-/PG+ buttons with skipminus/skipplus.
But in which keymap file?
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#8
(2018-04-14, 23:09)j-m-s Wrote: I have kodi in an nvidia shield android box and an MX3 air mouse. 
I think I have to associate the PG-/PG+ buttons with skipminus/skipplus.
But in which keymap file?
 Whichever one you'd like. If you don't want to worry about manually creating your keymap file, then use something like the Keymap Editor addon.
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#9
So I make a remote.xml and put sth. like this in:
 <keymap>
<TVRecordings>
<remote>
<key id="1234">SkipNext</key>
<key id="9876">SkipPrevious</key>
</remote>
</TVRecordings>
</keymap>

Or can I use 
<pageplus>SkipNext</pageplus>
<pageminus>SkipPrevious</pageminus>
?

But how do I know if kodi recognizes the key as pageplus?

In the standard remote.xml I see:
<skipplus>SkipNext</skipplus>
<skipminus>SkipPrevious</skipminus>

So skipplus and skipminus are the names of the buttons?
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#10
Now I found out how it works:
* the OSD menu must not be visible
* the buttons around "ok" on the remote control are used for skipping 
* left and right skip 0:10, 0:30, ... forwards/backwards
* up and down skip 10 minutes forward/backward.

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