Bulding Keystroke-basesd remote

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Help!



I am laboriously building a keystroke based remote to eventually run on a Nevo and to control Plex on my mac via iRed. With the help of others here I have managed to designate keystrokes for most of the functions that I need. I am stumped on 2. Any help would be greatly appreciated:


  1. Movie Information. I want to have a button on the navigation screen on the remote to display Movie Information about the current selection in the movie titles listing. A one stop equivalent of pressing C to get the Context Menu and then drilling down the list to Movie Information. I have found an ActivateWindow(12003) ccommand in the list of Window ID’s (http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Window_IDs) but this does not reference the currently selected movie and displays the correct window but without any information in it. How do I build an instruction assignable to a keystroke in keyboard.xml ?



    2 Search by Category. I have noticed in the latest PLEX release (7.14) that if you select “Watch Your Movies” in the Home screen, that if you then hit the right arrow you get access to a sub menu by category. This may have been here for awhile and I have only just found it. I would like a button on my navigation screen to give the user direct access to this submenu. Cannot work out how specify access to this submenu via keyboard.xml. Any ideas?



    If I ever get all this worked out, I should be very happy to post the results, particularly of the modified keyboard.xml for anyone interested. Theres a log of fiddling around for a noob such as myself.



    Thanks in anticipation
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For the first one you don’t need to activate a window, all you need is “Info” assigned in the keymap. You can find that by pulling up the keyboard.xml keymap in the Plex bundle. Not sure about the search function though.

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