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  5. Any chance of getting the Harmony Profile updated?

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    Posted · Edited by GoodOmens

    Yeah sorry for the multiposts, GoodOmen can you please tell me how to do this on the Chromebox and Openelec? I can not even change a dir in Linux.

     

    What exactly do you need help with?

     

    The Harmony profile provided from Flirc includes a Poweroff command that sends the XBMC the keyboard command Ctrl-F12.  Since that keyboard command does absolutely nothing I'm simply telling the XMBC to respond to that keyboard command by suspending through a custom keymap profile.

     

    This is how to ssh into openelec: http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/OpenELEC_FAQ#SSH

     

    This tells you everything you need to know about keymapping in xbmc: http://kodi.wiki/view/Keymap

  7. One Remote press, continued repeating Flirc commands

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    Ok so the Harmony 900 sends RF signals to a base unit that converts the RF into IR signals.  The base unit then sends the IR signals out via the mini IR blasters (IR senders).  You place the blasters in front of your Home Theatre (HT) equipment so that your remote can control multiple devices. 

     

    I had my home theatre equipment (XBMC box, DVR and Apple TV) all in the same cabinet, each with their own harmony mini-blaster.

    The harmony sends the IR signals to ALL of the mini-blasters at the same time.  eg. If I wanted to play a movie on XBMC I'd press "play" on my remote and the harmony would send the IR signal to all of the mini-blasters BUT only the XBMC would react to the play signal because the other devices (DVR and Apple TV) wouldn't recognise the IR signal being sent).

     

    The problem for me was because the IR signal is sent to all three mini blasters the FLIRC was picking up the 3 IR signals at the same time causing it to go crazy.  I had to move the flirc to a position where it would only pick up the signal from one IR blaster (not all three).  I did this by moving my XBMC/FLIRC and one IR blaster outside of the cabinet away from the other 2 IR blasters.  This solved my problem instantly.

     

    Hope that makes sense.

     

    Jeremy.

    You can in settings tell the rf receiver to assign a port to a specific device.

  8. Any chance of getting the Harmony Profile updated?

    in General Questions

    Posted · Edited by GoodOmens

    Ok it worked.

     

    In the harmony remote settings (The harmony software) edit the XMBC device (IE the Flirc profile for the XBMC).  Change the power settings to "One key turns the device on and off" and set it to Poweroff.  Ensure that for the activity you created for the XBMC is powered off when not in use.

     

    Then ssh into xbmc and create suspend.xml in .xbmc/userdata/keyboards with the following:

    <keymap>
 <global>
  <keyboard>
   <f12 mod="ctrl">XBMC.Suspend()</f12>
  </keyboard>
 </global>
</keymap>

    Now when turning off the device the XBMC will suspend!  Works just great on the chrome box.

  9. Any chance of getting the Harmony Profile updated?

    in General Questions

    Posted · Edited by GoodOmens

    So I've been trying to get Poweroff to work.

     

    So in theory, until the profile is updated, one could edit the XBMC mapping and map suspend to Ctrl+F12?

     

    IE doing something like:

    <F12 mod="ctrl">XBMC.Suspend()</f12>

    Haven't tried this approach as I didn't know what keys PowerOff sent.

     

    I'll see if I can create other remappings - like Skip Back |<< etc

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