[mythtv-users] I need some myth keybindings help please

Michael A Weber mweberjunk01 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 24 04:19:54 UTC 2016


> On Mar 23, 2016, at 10:10 PM, steve <stevenospam at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I'm extremely new to myth.  So far I'm just (barely) able to use the keyboard doing it badly because I can never remember the keybindings.
> 
> I'd like to change the keys to be a bit more like kodi and mplayer.
> 
> For a couple simple remapping tests, I wanted to do things like:
> 
> - spacebar stops and starts the video
> - \ : toggle from full screen to window mode (is this possible?)
> - DELETE/BACKSPACE key duplicates what the ESC key does.
> - B: Bookmark
> - up arrow: skip 10 minutes ahead
> - down arrow: skip 10 minutes back
> 
> 
> But when I add spacebar to be the pause/play button and restart the FE, it just doesnt work, nothing happens.
> 
> When I tried to get Backspace function like the back button (same as ESC right now), I actually locked myself out and had to truncate the sql table.
> 
> Basically every time I try to change a few keys I somehow end up screwing up.  I've done it many times now and for some reason I never get it right and was getting very frustrated.
> 
> I'm sorry I can't actually explain better what I did.
> 
> The sections I think are most relevant are these, because I am not interested in the other sections at least at the moment.
> 
> Global
> Main Menu
> TV Frontend
> TV Playback
> 
> I have a sense that maybe there is a concept of setcion scope, and that perhaps other sections were were overriding me?
> 
> Maybe there is some debugging I can turn on or look for in the logs to help me understand what I am doing wrong?
> 
> For starters, I'd like to get spacebar working, and then move on to some other keys
> 
> Thanks
> Steve
> 
> 
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Steve—

The first thing you need to do when you want to assign a given key to a given function is to determine if that key has already been specified for a given function.  If the key is not assigned to a given function in Globals, Jumppoints, or the Mythtv function you want to use (i.e. TV playback, Video, etc) then you are good to go.

Are you using the Key Bindings setup page in the Frontend?  If not, that’s where you’ll want to do your work.

Keep in mind:  Jumppoints work like Globals.  Globals do the same function everywhere; Jumppoints take you someplace else, and they do it from anywhere as well.

Now…  taking a look at my keybindings table in my database, I see that Space is assigned to the Select function in Globals.  So, if you have the same thing, you’re stuck there unless you remove Space from that function.

Again, you should be using the Key Bindings setup page in the Frontend to make these changes.

My recommendation?  Get a remote control functioning and deal with that and not a keyboard, or learn the keyboard commands for Mythtv.  It will probably be easier in the long run.  Many remotes and their receivers are plug-and-play.  I started using a separate diskless front-end running minimyth2 and just plugged in my USB receiver, and it worked.

Hope this helps!

Mike



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