<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 5, 2021, 2:35 PM James Abernathy, <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 2:09 PM Ian Evans <<a href="mailto:dheianevans@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dheianevans@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">As I mentioned in my contribution to the "The future of MythTV" thread, the backend recording is still very important to me. In the pandemic we've consumed a lot of "comfort food" oldies sitcoms that broadcast on the retro OTA channels but may not stream or have home entertainment releases.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anyway, I tend to edit out/mark commercials in those shows which is easy for the big remotes as ai just key assign the editing commands to the red, green, blue, yellow buttons.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For those using, say, a Shield or Chromecast with Google TV (I have the latter and there's barely any buttons on the remote) how do you mark/edit? Could you use a Bluetooth keyboard at that point? </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So I do something similar. I have a 2017 Nvidia Shield TV with the really crappy remote. I use the Logitech Harmony smart hub remote system to solve that problem by adding a magic non-existent keyboard to the remote and assigning Harmony keys to needed functions.</div><div><br></div><div>However, when editing recordings to adjust the cut marks more accurately, I use a Bluetooth keyboard so I have all the keys that mythfrontend allows. The bluetooth keyboard is an old Apple Mac BT keyboard for a Mac that long ago was retired from use.</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for the info. Possibly dumb question: what receives the keyboard input? The Shield or a Bluetooth dongle on the MythTV box? </div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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