Its not really well documented anywhere, no. Just takes some experimentation, and, better yet, configuration and tweaking.
I have a Panasonic plasma TV, and my Rasplex pi is connected via HDMI through a Marantz receiver. I have configured a `remote.xml` file that maps some unused or lesser used functionality to useful settings, and reprogrammed my Logitech Harmony remote to make everything work really well. Here is my remote.xml:
Play
FastForward
Rewind
Stop
Left
Right
Up
Down
Select
My only issue is that if I switch my receiver from the Rasplex to my DirecTV or Apple TV and then back a little while later, Rasplex seems to lose its CEC handshake with the TV, and I have to either reboot the pi, or simply restart Plex Home Theater. I have configured a little single-tap shortcut in iSSH on my iPhone and iPad to `killall plexhometheater` for this purpose.
Its not really well documented anywhere, no. Just takes some experimentation, and, better yet, configuration and tweaking.
I have a Panasonic plasma TV, and my Rasplex pi is connected via HDMI through a Marantz receiver. I have configured a `remote.xml` file that maps some unused or lesser used functionality to useful settings, and reprogrammed my Logitech Harmony remote to make everything work really well. Here is my remote.xml:
Play
FastForward
Rewind
Stop
Left
Right
Up
Down
My only issue is that if I switch my receiver from the Rasplex to my DirecTV or Apple TV and then back a little while later, Rasplex seems to lose its CEC handshake with the TV, and I have to either reboot the pi, or simply restart Plex Home Theater. I have configured a little single-tap shortcut in iSSH on my iPhone and iPad to `killall plexhometheater` for this purpose.
Great !
Where do you install this file ?
Is there a list of the available key from the panasonic ? and the corresponding list of possible actions on PHT ?
I installed it at /storage/.plexht/userdata/keymaps and I think I also installed it at /storage/.plexht/userdata because I wasn't positive which place. Then, I reboot the pi.
I don't know if there is a list of available keys from panasonic. There are some tools out there for exploring and logging CEC commands, but I couldn't get any of them working reliably on the pi, so mostly did trial and error by pushing buttons on the remote to see if they did *anything* at all. If they did, but not what I wanted, I just remapped them in the XML file.
I installed it at /storage/.plexht/userdata/keymaps and I think I also installed it at /storage/.plexht/userdata because I wasn't positive which place. Then, I reboot the pi.
I don't know if there is a list of available keys from panasonic. There are some tools out there for exploring and logging CEC commands, but I couldn't get any of them working reliably on the pi, so mostly did trial and error by pushing buttons on the remote to see if they did *anything* at all. If they did, but not what I wanted, I just remapped them in the XML file.
/storage/.plexht/userdata/keymaps was the right pasth form me.
I used your remote.xml file, and added a command for the "exit" button to go back to home screen.
Thanks to the "cec-client" program (to be executed throug ssh) i have been able to monitor the CEC command received by the Pi.
Conclusion:
The only buttons that goes through CEC are :
- arrows
- select
- exit (seen as "clear" through CEC)
- option
- the 4 colored buttons.
All others buttons commands are not reaching the Pi.
then according on your findings edit the remote.xml file
vi /storage/.plexht/userdata/keymaps/remote.xml
Mine for Panasonic Viera TV remote looks like this: (to be able to use play, pause etc in lower part of the remote (part for VieraConnect player), you need to code the remote. In my case hold the lower power button, press 73 and STOP and release lower power button.)
Play
Pause
Stop
FastForward
Rewind
Left
Right
Up
Down
Select
FullScreen
PageUp
PageDown
Back
PreviousMenu
ContextMenu
Info
SkipNext
SkipPrevious
FullScreen
PreviousMenu
Screenshot
VolumeUp
VolumeDown
Mute
XBMC.ShutDown()
reloadkeymaps
XBMC.ActivateWindow(MySharedContent,plexserver://shared,return)
XBMC.ActivateWindow(VideoFiles,plexserver://2b1a499bb9906fc5ab5304f4345b90ae365264c0/library/sections/3/all,return)
XBMC.ActivateWindow(VideoFiles,plexserver://2b1a499bb9906fc5ab5304f4345b90ae365264c0/library/sections/7/all,return)
Number0
Number1
JumpSMS2
JumpSMS3
JumpSMS4
JumpSMS5
JumpSMS6
JumpSMS7
JumpSMS8
JumpSMS9
XBMC.ActivateWindow(SystemInfo)
Number0
Number1
Number2
Number3
Number4
Number5
Number6
Number7
Number8
Number9
StepBack
StepForward
BigStepForward
BigStepBack
Stop
OSD
OSD
OSD
NextSubtitle
AudioNextLanguage
Info
SubtitleDelayPlus
CodecInfo
Info
ChapterOrBigStepForward
ChapterOrBigStepBack
Playlist
AudioNextLanguage
SubtitleDelayPlus
SubtitleDelayMinus
....etc
I tried this lat night and it didn't seem to work.
This is the contents of the remote.xml:
Info
OSD
Rewind
ShowSubtitles
Left
Right
Up
Down
Clicking the colored buttons during playback had 0 effect. I place hte file under /storage/.plexht/userdata/keymaps and restarted the device.
Any suggestions?
Has anyone succefully remapped the color buttons on their TV remote to do what liight was trying to do? I am trying to do the exact same thing and am getting nowhere. Does Rasplex support mapping of the more exotic keystoke features like OSD or marking as watched or are we only able to map things like play or fast forward etc.?
I managed to figure out how to run a SSH shell and use the "trail" feature to show my button presses and discovered that the color buttons on my particular TV (2013 Vizio) are not registered as button presses by the Pi. Liiight, I am posting this for you in particular just in case you are still trying to figure out why your remote.xml file doesnt seem to do anything.
then according on your findings edit the remote.xml file
vi /storage/.plexht/userdata/keymaps/remote.xml
Mine for Panasonic Viera TV remote looks like this: (to be able to use play, pause etc in lower part of the remote (part for VieraConnect player), you need to code the remote. In my case hold the lower power button, press 73 and STOP and release lower power button.)
Hello Issic, any chance you could post your full remote.xml and tell me where you found the long urls for the plex server libraries? I have the same TV and have had only some success remapping remote buttons.
Where location is the correct location of the file.
Depending on your network, you might need to change rasplex.local to an IP address, you can get your IP address by doing these steps on the Pi:
Go left and choose System Settings
Select Connections - IP address should be listed.
If this is the first time, you'll be asked to accept the RSA key, type "yes" and hit enter/return.
You'll be asked for password, if this is your first time and everything is default, the password is: rasplex
3) Reboot Pi
Either unplug power, or use ssh and reboot.
Issues
If nothing works, check to make sure that remote.xml is in the correct place and isn't corrupted. Somehow copying once for me the file corrupted, so I had to redo
Extra Gravy AKA Get Your Remote REALLY Working
If anyone having trouble with the Pi recognizing your extra remote buttons, such as Fastforward/Rewind etc, you might want to try adding this line to your config.txt
hdmi_ignore_cec_init=1
Place it at the end of the config text file and do a power cycle of BOTH the Pi and your TV (just to make sure). You might need to redo your HDMI link, on my Panasonic I can hit Viera Tools, Viera Link, and confirm Player. I have a Panasonic 55" 3D TC something or other model, so your mileage might vary on this one.
Here's what I do with my keymap currently:
ContextMenu
Delete
AudioNextLanguage
NextSubtitle
Yellow - brings up the context menu on a file so I can delete.
Blue - was an attempt to map straight to a delete action, which is taken from XBMC list, but doesn't actually work, boooo..
Red - I can cycle through audio languages while playing
Green - I can cycle through subtitles while playing
You can pretty much set any of your buttons on your remote, other than hardcoded ones such as Netflix or whatever, to do various functions. I used to have it set up on a Mac so I could hit 1, 2, or 3 to change the view to recently added, etc.. but that was on the Mac version, and I haven't looked into it yet with the Pi.
One question which I hope someone knows the answer to, I have used winscp to search rasplex and found that there is a remote.xml file in the following location:
/usr/share/xbmc/system/keymaps
Does putting a remote.xml in to /storage/.plexht/userdata/keymaps/ override what is in /usr/share/xbmc/system/keymaps?
Or does they work together to provide extended functionality???
One question which I hope someone knows the answer to, I have used winscp to search rasplex and found that there is a remote.xml file in the following location:
/usr/share/xbmc/system/keymaps
Does putting a remote.xml in to /storage/.plexht/userdata/keymaps/ override what is in /usr/share/xbmc/system/keymaps?
Or does they work together to provide extended functionality???
