[mythtv-users] Harmony Hub and MythTV

[John P Poet]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 3:38 PM Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:

>
>> I bought the same Plugable that you have.  I have it paired, but it is
>> not obvious how to configure keys.  In the Harmony app, when I select
>> "Customize Remote" for the activity, then select a key to configure on the
>> remote, it only gives me a Up, Down, Left and Right as choices.  I assume I
>> have it configure wrong.
>>
>
> When you set up your computer as a device, you need to tell Harmony that
> it is a Windows computer rather than Other.  I beat my head against the
> wall on this one for a while too.
>
> Even after doing this, the list of keys is not complete. For instance,
> there is no way to map a button to CTRL-, (control-comma) which decreases
> time stretch (I mapped the red button on my Streamzap remote to this, and
> wanted to do the same with the Harmony Hub remote). It is on my list
> tonight to mess around with changing mapping of keypresses to actions on
> the Myth side to match key sequences that can be matched on the Harmony
> side, which will require using the Key editor in Mythweb, and if I want to
> avoid breaking use of the Streamzap, also in the ~mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc
> file. Tedious and messy, but it looks like it could be done.
>

Thank you, Greg.  That was it.
I will also have to fix some mythtv mappings, it looks like.
Were you able to get the "transport" buttons to work?  Back, play, stop,
etc?

John
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