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A few other things have broken for me so if gone back a few versions to one using "leftshift"
Thanks though, has helped me get it working how I want.
And on windows the power key sends the same as the sleep button not power, that's what confused me.
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Right, running the most recent build, the new "peripherals" section in input devices can be activated and the Nyxboard remote appears there with the ability to define the USER key and a couple of other things. Pretty cool.
Additionally, the play/pause button is being seen by xbmc and is not passed down to a running iTunes instance, which is lovely.
Thanks Malard, I assume you've done the coding for this? or was it davilla, hard to say sometimes with github.
Anyway, with good news comes the other stuff, so I'd like to suggest that the four colour buttons on the remote be definable in Peripherals in the same way as USER, and also I'm still having an issue with the STOP button doing nothing at all. It makes the light flash but it seems to send no signal, XBMC logs see nothing, and when XBMC's no running it seems to do nothing for itunes either.
I'll take it into work tomorrow and try it on a windows machine; I'm beginning to suspect a fault with that code, which would suck.
I'm happy to see the progress with this though, I was concerned that the coming feature freeze would cause problems.
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A little further playing with the remote and I've now got it setup so that the USER button now launches XBMC if it's not running, and quits it if it is. It's actually quite easy, here's how:
Simple part, quitting XBMC. Define USER in the 'peripherals' menu as: XBMC.ShutDown()
Trickier part, launching it. Two staged attack here, first make a service that launches XBMC, then assign a keyboard shortcut (F4 in this case) to that service.
To do this, launch Automator, make a new service and set the "service receives" setting to "no input" then look for "launch application" in the actions list, double click it and select XBMC as the application. File|Save as "LaunchXBMC" and then exit Automator
Now launch System Preferences and Keyboard|Keyboard Shortcuts|Services, scroll to bottom, double click the whitespace in the right column for your new entry, press F4, tick the entry and close System Preferences and you're done.
This isnt completely specific to the Nyxboard remote, you could tweak this idea to work with anything else, and be careful, there's no confirmation on that exit command, it just quits right away.
Hope that helps someone.
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So I received my replacement about 30 days ago, finally had more than thirty minutes to myself to figure why this one didn't work either. Step one, like Malard has said about 5 pages back: replace the batteries, they suck. The replacement dispatched does work for me, but only within a range of about 18 inches. Anyone want to buy a very lightly used Nyxboard?