I’ve tried various USB keyboards, both full-sized and miniature and both US and Euro versions (Swedish), but they all have some limitations in their compatibility to Rasplex.
One basic limitation is the total lack of any setting for regional USB keyboard layouts.
This not only affects the regionally unique characters (like the three extra vowels of nordic languages), but also affects the positioning of many characters. Eg: To get Rasplex to see an underscore character ‘_’, I must press Shift + ‘+’ on a Swedish keyboard (which gives ‘?’ with a Swedish device driver). And that’s just one example of many displaced characters. Essentially, to get a specific non-alpha character I must press the key which in a US keyboard layout would represent that character. (That’s clearly because the USB keyboard interface mainly deals with matrix position codes.) I can live with this limitation, but I’m sure it makes entry of usernames and passwords difficult for some people. (Especially passwords, as the input string is invisible…)
Another problem is that the implementation of ‘Media keys’ seems very incomplete.
For example, the ‘Volume+’ key works fine, but both ‘Volume-’ and ‘Mute’ keys have no effect at all.
Finally I see a need to implement a command key, globally available within PlexHT, to allow the user to return to the current playback screen, after ‘falling out’ of it without terminating playback (usually ending up in the main menu). This has happened to me in various circumstances, some of which are still a mystery, while others are repeatable simply by pressing some function key on the keyboard (that differs for various keyboards, so only happens with some of them). I would then need a simple command key, or menu command, to go back to the current playback GUI, as the media is still playing in the background (though invisible).
I realize that some, or even all, of these problems may be due to the PlexHT design, rather than to the RasPlex implementation of it. But since it is the RPi version of PHT where I see these problems, this is where I need to report it. The keyboard mapping issue wouldn’t apply to a PC version of PHT anyway, as the PC OS handles the keyboard independently.
@Dale:
If some/all of these issues can’t be dealt with in your RasPlex implementation, I still think that you have a better chance than me of bringing these issues to the attention of the PHT programmers…
Best regards: dlanor
HI dlanor,
More generally speaking there is an issue with selecting the leyboard layout.
I am in France, and i have changed teh keyb layout in settings but it will not ne saved nor have any proper effect on the input.
This is not a specific rasplex issue but an openelec one. We are discussing with sraue quite often and are looking forward to see a patch for this.
For your information, this isssue is tracked in our trello system and the link to openelec open issue is here https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/issues/1965.
Thanks for the information.HI dlanor,
More generally speaking there is an issue with selecting the leyboard layout.
I am in France, and i have changed teh keyb layout in settings but it will not ne saved nor have any proper effect on the input.
This is not a specific rasplex issue but an openelec one. We are discussing with sraue quite often and are looking forward to see a patch for this.
For your information, this isssue is tracked in our trello system and the link to openelec open issue is here https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/issues/1965.
That settles one of my three issues for now, as we are apparently dependent on the OpenELEC implementation of regional keyboard layouts.
But this still leaves two issues unanswered:
1: Missing media key implementation.
Like for volume control only "Volume+" works, but neither "Volume-" nor "Mute" (and some others).
2: Missing command/key to regain playback GUI control after 'falling out' of it.
Both of these omissions may of course be due to original PlexHT coding rather than the RasPlex implementation, but in that case it would be nice to know that for sure, so the request can be passed on to the PlexHT programmers.
Best regards: dlanor
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