CEC Remote Help

[raspberry_pd]

Hmm, sorry to hear about the sources switching bug. What is the exact model of your actual TV, as opposed to the remote? I have access to two LG TVs and both are ok with switching sources ATM. I tend to use the Input button as opposed to the Simplink button. Maybe that helps?

Cool that you already know that you need a remote.xml, the path and so forth. Here's an example remote.xml that should enable you to use that menu, which is known as ContextMenu .

Code:

<keymap>

        <global>
                <remote>
                        <skipplus>ContextMenu</skipplus>
                </remote>
        </global>

        <MyVideoLibrary>
                <remote>
                        <skipplus>ContextMenu</skipplus>
                </remote>
        </MyVideoLibrary>

        <MyVideoFiles>
                <remote>
                        <skipplus>ContextMenu</skipplus>
                </remote>
        </MyVideoFiles>

        <FullscreenVideo>
                <remote>
                        <skipplus>StepForward</skipplus>
                </remote>
        </FullscreenVideo>

</keymap>

That should map your >> Fast forward (skipplus) button to the ContextMenu globally and in video files and video library views.

You might want to nominate a different key to assign the ContextMenu to, that's up to you. I'd suggest do the above and if that doesn't get you access to the ContextMenu I don't know what will, LOL, because there's actually duplication there. You can probably omit the two MyVideo* sections as the global section covers that.

Anyway, just in case, the editing procedure that seems to work for me is:

1) Start XBian, wait for it to boot
2) Click the power icon in the bottom left
3) Select "Exit" to close XBMC as cleanly as possible
4) SSH in to the XBian command line / terminal / shell (whatever you like to call it), or log in if you have a keyboard plugged into your Pi
5) Edit remote.xml in ~xbian/.xbmc/userdata/keymaps/remote.xml by adding in the above code
6) run ...

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/xbmc  start

In other words, in my experience, XBMC does require restarting before it will attempt to use/implement your remote.xml edits.

Good luck!