Remote

[Speedster]

The buttons in the harmony database is the buttons on the XIOS stock IR remote.
(power, menu, up, down, left, right, back, info, vol up, vol down).
The remote.conf trick will allow you to listen to different remote codes so couple that with a harmony (mapped to the remote which codes are updated in the remote.conf) and you got the extended functionality.

Thanks!

[papampi]

So from what I read in this post Harmony has the standard buttons for xios and if I want to add more functionality I should edit /etc/remote.conf
and there is remote.conf here : http://pastebin.com/bKDZbks3
from this post : viewtopic.php?f=15&t=855
the question is :
after I edit remote.conf how do I map harmony buttons to new codes ?

[sagacity]

Check out emveepee's post on the first page. It lists the keys xbmc understands and it lists a keymap which tells you which key has which scan code.

Then, basically you use remote.conf to map buttons on your remote to these keyboard scan codes. So when you press "power" on your remote, you would configure that button to send the key "S" which xbmc understands as the shutdown key.

[papampi]

Thanks for quick reply !
the problem I'm talking about is that if I set the Harmony to xios it only has standard controls and to add more functionality it needs a device to learn from it .
so how can I add a button to my harmony and tell it to send keyboard signal ?

[sagacity]

I'm not sure what the best way is to train a Harmony remote, sorry. Maybe borrow someone's bluray remote and have it learn from that? I dunno

[aasoror]

Thanks for quick reply !
the problem I'm talking about is that if I set the Harmony to xios it only has standard controls and to add more functionality it needs a device to learn from it .
so how can I add a button to my harmony and tell it to send keyboard signal ?

You don't need a device to learn from, for example you can load the WMC codes from the harmony database and edit those into the remote.conf

[Speedster]

You don't need a device to learn from, for example you can load the WMC codes from the harmony database and edit those into the remote.conf

So what you're suggesting is to create a standard Media PC as a device in the Harmony software (e.g. Microsoft Windows Media Center) instead of the XIOS profile and edit remote.conf to map the RC-6 commands sent by the Harmony to specific keys? And then map those keys to XBMC commands using keyboard.xml?

I think it's making sense now!

[papampi]

if anyone make the harmony remote to work with xios linux xbmc with extra buttons and features PLEASE post it !!!
Thanks in advance ...

[emveepee]

Maybe I am not interpreting things correctly, but I believe remote.conf is translating the remote key presses into keyboard scan codes and then to get extra functionality, you need to update keyboard.xml, if that isn't enough. Tonight I'll upload the remote.conf and keyboard.xml that I use with the Popcorn Hour remote that gives me direct keys for page up/down, aspect level zooming, subtitle toggling, play/pause, codec information, MyVideos, MyMusic etc. I do want to get the audio stream switching included first.

Martin

[papampi]

You don't need a device to learn from, for example you can load the WMC codes from the harmony database and edit those into the remote.conf

if we set xios to harmony it only has standard buttons so we can not map any new buttons unless we have the remote to learn the new buttons .
I tried to setup xios on harmony based on aios but xios wont recognize any of buttons
can some one help to map aios or mce remote codes to xios for harmony ?