Skip app support of Kodi PageUp PageDown

[revin]

In looking through the list of "Buttons" that the Skip app can send, it seems to be missing Kodi's native PageUP and PageDOWN support. Are they perhaps called something else? How hard would it be to add them to an upcoming build?

This would be really handy when looking a lists of items, and be able to go through them page by page, vs skips limit of item by item.

 

[monkeybrew]

I wish this would get some attention. Using Kodi with the Skip remote is frankly painful without the basic page up/down functions.

[revin]

@jason what are the chances of getting this in an upcoming release? Should be fairly easy as it's just another pair of key presses?

[monkeybrew]

On 8/10/2024 at 11:48 AM, revin said:

@jason what are the chances of getting this in an upcoming release? Should be fairly easy as it's just another pair of key presses?

I would really love the option to map these to Channel Up/Down. Those buttons are completely unused for everything I use or will ever use Kodi for.

[revin]

On 8/14/2024 at 12:47 PM, monkeybrew said:

I would really love the option to map these to Channel Up/Down. Those buttons are completely unused for everything I use or will ever use Kodi for.

Those are the exact same thoughts as me.

[berkhornet]

I got this working by

- mapping Ch Up to Zoom + and Ch Down to Zoom - in Skip app

- adding the following to keyboard.xml:

            <equals>PageUp</equals>
            <minus>PageDown</minus>

hope this helps

 

[revin]

Awesome, this works... don't know exactly why, but it does.

For anyone wanting to try this, the keyboard.xml file is the Kodi keyboard.xml file. You'll need to update the settings under the

   <keymap
     <global
       <keyboard

section. If there are existing equals or minus bindings, you'll need to replace them with these.

[snarfo67]

On 9/1/2024 at 3:27 AM, berkhornet said:

I got this working by

- mapping Ch Up to Zoom + and Ch Down to Zoom - in Skip app

- adding the following to keyboard.xml:

            <equals>PageUp</equals>
            <minus>PageDown</minus>

hope this helps

 

I just got my remote today (after my venerable Logitech Harmony Ultimate finally died) and was trying to do this exact thing. Thanks SO much for figuring out a workaround!

I was thinking the keyboard.xml file needed to be added to the keymaps folder in the %userdata%/blahblahblah folder. For anyone digging around, it's the main keyboard.xml file in C:\Program Files\Kodi\System\Keymaps (assuming default install location, of course).