HOW-TO:Use SMS-style text entry for remotes
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If you have a remote control that is viewed as a keyboard to XBMC and want to enable SMS/T9-like text input and page jumping, this guide wills how you how to enable this using a custom keymap.
Steps
1 | Create a plain text file (no rich text formatting, don't use .doc, etc) and save it as keyboard.xml. Make sure that the file extension is ".xml" and not ".txt" or ".xml.txt". | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2 | Cut and paste this into your new plain text file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <keymap> <global> <keyboard> <zero>Number0</zero> <one>JumpSMS1</one> <two>JumpSMS2</two> <three>JumpSMS3</three> <four>JumpSMS4</four> <five>JumpSMS5</five> <six>JumpSMS6</six> <seven>JumpSMS7</seven> <eight>JumpSMS8</eight> <nine>JumpSMS9</nine> <escape>Back</escape> </keyboard> </global> <VirtualKeyboard> <keyboard> <zero>Number0</zero> <one>Number1</one> <two>Number2</two> <three>Number3</three> <four>Number4</four> <five>Number5</five> <six>Number6</six> <seven>Number7</seven> <eight>Number8</eight> <nine>Number9</nine> <backspace>Backspace</backspace> </keyboard> </VirtualKeyboard> <FullscreenVideo> <keyboard> <zero>Number0</zero> <one>Number1</one> <two>Number2</two> <three>Number3</three> <four>Number4</four> <five>Number5</five> <six>Number6</six> <seven>Number7</seven> <eight>Number8</eight> <nine>Number9</nine> <escape>Stop</escape> </keyboard> </FullscreenVideo> <VideoMenu> <keyboard> <zero>Number0</zero> <one>Number1</one> <two>Number2</two> <three>Number3</three> <four>Number4</four> <five>Number5</five> <six>Number6</six> <seven>Number7</seven> <eight>Number8</eight> <nine>Number9</nine> </keyboard> </VideoMenu> <NumericInput> <keyboard> <zero>Number0</zero> <one>Number1</one> <two>Number2</two> <three>Number3</three> <four>Number4</four> <five>Number5</five> <six>Number6</six> <seven>Number7</seven> <eight>Number8</eight> <nine>Number9</nine> </keyboard> </NumericInput> <Teletext> <keyboard> <zero>number0</zero> <one>number1</one> <two>number2</two> <three>number3</three> <four>number4</four> <five>number5</five> <six>number6</six> <seven>number7</seven> <eight>number8</eight> <nine>number9</nine> </keyboard> </Teletext> </keymap> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Save this file in userdata/Keymaps/:
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4 | If XBMC is already running then restart it so that the changes take effect. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Go into XBMC and then Settings -> System -> Input devices and enable Remote control sends keyboard presses. This will allow your arrow keys to use the on-screen keyboard even though XBMC thinks your remote is a keyboard already.
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Filter instead of jump
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You can also use FilterSMS instead of JumpSMS.