CEC Remote Help

[raspberry_pd]

LOL, you're in luck, I have almost the exact same remote. Good timing of your purchase too because a few months back, LG TVs were experiencing a problem with CEC whereby once you switch source (say, back to normal DTV) and then back to the Raspi HDMI again, the CEC functionality would die. Aren't you lucky I bug reported that and the great guys at Pulse-Eight found a solution?

Essentially when XBian is running and the active source on your LG, if you press a button that doesn't apply to the current source, you should see an overlay from the TV software stating "This function is not available now". So you can rule out those keys, they will not be available to you.

Secondly, there will be some keys that do not produce the "This function is not available now" message but nevertheless do not do anything in Xbian because they are not passed through the HDMI CEC wire. These include, for example, the red/green/yellow/blue buttons.

Thirdly there are the keys like the Info button that are always completely mapped to the TV's system software. So you cannot remap those.

Lastly there are the keys you CAN remap. To do this is reasonably easy if you are not afraid of a little bit of XML, can access your Xbian via SSH and edit a text file. The one aspect that is a little messy is the documentation. Loosely speaking AFAIK there are about half a dozen different representations of the keys on a remote control so that gets messy but I can help you out and hopefully others will too. Let's keep it as simple as possible though ..

1) In which mode are you in when you press the button? The mappings for XBMC can be global or context specific. For example, pressing a key when watching full screen video can trigger a different action to pressing the same key when viewing a file list or the library.

2) What do you want to do when you click a certain button?

From what I can determine from your post, you want to have XBMC switch to the main Video menu when you press a button, is that correct?

Just let me know a little bit more about those two questions and I can write you a simple XML file to help.

pd