[mythtv-users] Quick scrolling on Frontend

[Mike Perkins]

On 21/04/14 19:58, Andréas Kühne wrote:
> 2014-04-21 20:56 GMT+02:00 Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
>
>> On 04/21/2014 02:45 PM, Andréas Kühne wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have a question about the "Show recordings" page on a Frontend. I have
>>> over 400 recorded programs split into many films and tv-series. The
>>> TV-series are all grouped, which is great, but there are still alot of
>>> programs on that screen.
>>>
>>> I am using the frontend with a standard tv remote (a Logitech Harmony
>>> one), this works great, but I would like to quickly scroll through the list
>>> of recordings. As it is now, I can only scroll down one recording at a
>>> time. I would like to be able to either enter the first letter of the item
>>> I am looking for or scroll down one "page" at a time.
>>>
>>> Is this possible somehow?
>>>
>>> I am running a Mythtv 0.26 fixes system at the moment, but will be
>>> upgrading to 0.27 fixes shortly.
>>>
>>>
>> Global/PAGEDOWN (by default Page Down key)
>> Global/PAGEUP (by default Page Up key)
>>
>> There are also:
>>
>> Global/PAGEBOTTOM
>> Global/PAGEMIDDLE
>> Global/PAGETOP
>>
>> No generic search/autocomplete.
>>
>> Also, MENU|Change Group View; and consider using Recording Groups, then
>> MENU|Change Group Filter.
>>
> Thanks Mike,
>
> I'll have to try to map the page up / page down key to my remote somehow.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andréas
>
(Fixed top posting)

You'll probably find PageUp and PageDown are already mapped - on my remote they 
are the same keys as Prog+ and Prog-, which obviously don't have a function 
while in the menus.

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Mike Perkins