Trouble using ContextMenu - cannot launch irw, irrecord or mode2

[christov]

*bump*

Any thoughts anyone?

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Update!

Managed to get the context menu button working by using some info found over here:
http://xbian.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=78&page=3

My remote behaves as a keyboard so you have to find the button that you're pressing, I originally programmed this as volume_mute but for some reason xbian is now seeing this as f13. Possibly due to an MCE remote configuration but regardless here's how to find it for anyone else suffering with this problem, despite the fact my irw wasn't working; thanks to CurlyMo for posting this elsewhere!

Enable debugging in XBMC
Then enter this command in ssh:

Code:

tail -n 10 -f /home/xbian/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log

And press the buttons you want to know what they do, look for something like this:

Code:

12:16:36 T:3042897920   DEBUG: OnKey: f13 (f09c) pressed, action is Mute=

So I'm pressing the button on the remote but XBMC is seeing this as F13, so all we then need to do is edit the keyboard.xml (I made a copy at ~/.xbmc/userdata/keyboard.xml):

Code:

<f13>ContextMenu</f13>

then do this:

Code:

sudo xbmc stop
sudo xbmc start

Voila! Now it works properly.... sadly I've somehow broke my app that used to work with XBMC so we'll see how we get on with that!