XBMC

[dbbd]

You may need to experiment with XBMC event server settings.

I'd appreciate a pointer to where/how. Could not find anything relevant inside xbmc.
Thanks

[kricker]

You may need to experiment with XBMC event server settings.

I'd appreciate a pointer to where/how. Could not find anything relevant inside xbmc.
Thanks

Go into settings/network/eventserver

[dbbd]

The only options are initial repeat delay and continuous repeat delay.
Both deal with repeats. I played with both, and did not notice any effect on
the first response delay.
Anyway, thanks; I'll play with this some more.

[markowe]

Putting the XBMC plugin in the startup items only enables the ability to use the plugin. To have the XBMC controls available at startup of EG, you need to have a macro that enables those controls at startup (most likely after the plugin in enabled).

Aha, I didn't realise that! Think I got it now!

[Dark Helmet]

Hey everyone, new to the board.

I just switched from xbmc for xbox to xbmc for windows and I'm having some difficulties with setting up my remote. I managed to make it usable with EG but it's the little details that makes the solution lack some comfort compared to xbmc for xbox with the xbox dvd remote.

I have a Hama 00052451 remote. Basically chose this one because it looked roughly the same as the xbox remote. I'm especially used to having four buttons around the navigational (up, down, left, right) buttons.

In XBMC for xbox these buttons were "show, hide context menu", "OSD", "home screen" and "go back to previous menu". Here's a picture:
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=XBOX_DVD-Re ... l_Controls

It turns out that while "go back to previous menu" worked right out of the box (even without EG), the other three buttons are left and right mouse button and "info" (no idea what that button's supposed to do, it does the same as right mouse in EG).

Is it possible to use these buttons at all and if so how? Is it even possible to map other functions to "mouse actions" in xbmc or in EG? Is it possible to have other actions for buttons in an application specific way? Like mapping "OSD" to the left mouse button while xbmc is running but have it act "normal" when xbmc is closed? After all the mouse buttons are needed to work the way they're supposed to do in windows.

Another odd thing. I mapped a button to "OSD". This works while I'm playing videos, the same button does nothing while playing music. The OSD just won't show up. Strange. Can anyone confirm?

Thanks in advance, cheers.

[kricker]

....In XBMC for xbox these buttons were "show, hide context menu", "OSD", "home screen" and "go back to previous menu". Here's a picture:
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=XBOX_DVD-Re ... l_Controls

It turns out that while "go back to previous menu" worked right out of the box (even without EG), the other three buttons are left and right mouse button and "info" (no idea what that button's supposed to do, it does the same as right mouse in EG).

Is it possible to use these buttons at all and if so how? Is it even possible to map other functions to "mouse actions" in xbmc or in EG? Is it possible to have other actions for buttons in an application specific way? Like mapping "OSD" to the left mouse button while xbmc is running but have it act "normal" when xbmc is closed? After all the mouse buttons are needed to work the way they're supposed to do in windows.

Another odd thing. I mapped a button to "OSD". This works while I'm playing videos, the same button does nothing while playing music. The OSD just won't show up. Strange. Can anyone confirm?

Thanks in advance, cheers.

If you have the MCE plugin activated to receive the commands from your remote, then EG should eat all the commands sent by the remote and allow to to map them to whatever you want them to do.

I assume you are using the XBMC plugin to send the action to XBMC EventServer and not just keystrokes? With the plugin you choose the appropriate action you want the button to send. Most all of them are named properly. I know I have all my commands setup and working perfectly fine emulating the XBMC perfectly.

[Dark Helmet]

I assume you are using the XBMC plugin to send the action to XBMC EventServer and not just keystrokes?

I don't know what you mean by sending it to the eventserver. I used EG to appoint the "events" from to certain actions in the xbmc plugin of EG. I then start EG and XBMC and it works. I didn't touch anything in the settings of xbmc itself. The eventserver of xbmc is activated though.

Every button ony my remote works. However unfortunately the three "mouse buttons" of my remote so far can't be used. If I hit them while running EG, no event shows up in the left column of EG that I could use to point them to actions of the xbmc plugin. On a second though I have to admit that it does make sense though. Otherwise every mouse movement would trigger an event of itself in EG. These buttons don't do anything different than my mouse does.

I can use these buttons in xbmc when the mouse arrow shows up. However I don't really see the point in having mouse controls when you have a remote in your hand. Ultimately it would be cool if windows itself wouldn't recognize these buttons as mouse buttons but I guess this is not an issue that EG can do anything about.

[kricker]

The issue you are having is definitely between EG and your remote. You need to figure out how to get EG to recognize those button presses. A quick googling of your remote showed it as an MCE remote, so you should start by checking the MCE plugin for EG and check the support threads for more info. If you can get that worked out, you would have no trouble with this XBMC plugin controlling XBMC.

[nymart]

This action is available in XBMC but it's not mapped in EventGhost. Can someone tell me how to get it mapped if it's not a choice in the actions?

[nymart]

This action is available in XBMC but it's not mapped in EventGhost. Can someone tell me how to get it mapped if it's not a choice in the actions?

Bump...Anyone?

[kricker]

This action is available in XBMC but it's not mapped in EventGhost. Can someone tell me how to get it mapped if it's not a choice in the actions?

Bump...Anyone?

what action?

[nymart]

This action is available in XBMC but it's not mapped in EventGhost. Can someone tell me how to get it mapped if it's not a choice in the actions?

Bump...Anyone?

what action?

Sorry kricker...the one in my subject ShowDVDMenu

[kricker]

Sorry kricker...the one in my subject ShowDVDMenu

ahhh okay. You can add it to the list of actions. Look in the EventGhost\plugins\XBMC folder. Open the __init__.py file in something like notepadd ++. Find the ACTIONS = ( section. You can add the action into that last. I believe the format is something like:
("EG Action Name", "Short description", "Long description", "XBMC action")

That being said the actions listed at http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Action_IDs shows the following:

• Action-Description
  showvideomenu-Show DVD menu (not implemented yet)

So it appears to not be functional yet but you can try and let us know if it does.

("VideoMenu", "DVD menu", "Show DVD menu", "showvideomenu")

[nymart]

Sorry kricker...the one in my subject ShowDVDMenu

ahhh okay. You can add it to the list of actions. Look in the EventGhost\plugins\XBMC folder. Open the __init__.py file in something like notepadd ++. Find the ACTIONS = ( section. You can add the action into that last. I believe the format is something like:
("EG Action Name", "Short description", "Long description", "XBMC action")

That being said the actions listed at http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Action_IDs shows the following:

• Action-Description
  showvideomenu-Show DVD menu (not implemented yet)

So it appears to not be functional yet but you can try and let us know if it does.

("VideoMenu", "DVD menu", "Show DVD menu", "showvideomenu")

Thanks kricker, I'll give it a shot when I get home tonight...

I read some post on the xbmc forum that said it was implemented in 8.10 but I can't find it right now...

[nymart]

Sorry kricker...the one in my subject ShowDVDMenu

ahhh okay. You can add it to the list of actions. Look in the EventGhost\plugins\XBMC folder. Open the __init__.py file in something like notepadd ++. Find the ACTIONS = ( section. You can add the action into that last. I believe the format is something like:
("EG Action Name", "Short description", "Long description", "XBMC action")

That being said the actions listed at http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Action_IDs shows the following:

• Action-Description
  showvideomenu-Show DVD menu (not implemented yet)

So it appears to not be functional yet but you can try and let us know if it does.

("VideoMenu", "DVD menu", "Show DVD menu", "showvideomenu")

Thanks kricker, I'll give it a shot when I get home tonight...

I read some post on the xbmc forum that said it was implemented in 8.10 but I can't find it right now...

Just set it up and it works PERFECTLY!!!! Thanks so much for the help kricker