Alternative keymaps for Fire TV remote

Amazon Fire TV

Alternative keymaps for Fire TV remote

Alternative keymaps for the Amazon Fire TV remote, as suggested by the community.

Note: These keymaps can also be applied using elmerohueso's "XBMC Tweaks for FTV" program addon, which is available from elmerohueso's XBMC repo.

Keymap 1

Changes from the default are shown in bold print.

Button	Global action	Fullscreen video action
3	Directional pad: Up Down Right Left	Directional pad: Up: Volume amplification up Down: Volume amplification down Right: +30 seconds Left: -30 seconds
4	Select	On-screen-display menu
6	Context menu	SmallStepBack (go back 7 seconds)
8	Play/pause	Play/pause
9	Back	Stop

Cut and paste the following into a new text document and save as keyboard.xml and place in userdata/keymaps/

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<keymap>
  <FullscreenVideo>
    <keyboard>
      <menu>SmallStepBack</menu>
      <backspace>Stop</backspace>
      <up>volampup</up>
      <down>volampdown</down>
      <rewind>Rewind</rewind>
      <fastforward>FastForward</fastforward>
    </keyboard>
  </FullscreenVideo>
  <VideoMenu>
    <keyboard>
      <backspace>Stop</backspace>
    </keyboard>
  </VideoMenu>
</keymap>

Keymap 2

Changes from the default are shown in bold print.

Button	Global action	Fullscreen video action
3	Directional pad: Up Down Right Left	Directional pad: Up: Next chapter or go forward 10 minutes Down: Previous chapter or go back 10 minutes Right: +30 seconds Left: -30 seconds
4	Select	On-screen-display menu
6	Context menu	CodecInfo overlay
8	Play/pause	Play/pause
9	Back	Stop

Cut and paste the following into a new text document and save as keyboard.xml and place in userdata/keymaps/

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<keymap>
  <FullscreenVideo>
    <keyboard>
      <menu>CodecInfo</menu>
      <backspace>Stop</backspace>
      <rewind>Rewind</rewind>
      <fastforward>FastForward</fastforward>
    </keyboard>
  </FullscreenVideo>
  <VideoMenu>
    <keyboard>
      <backspace>Stop</backspace>
    </keyboard>
  </VideoMenu>
</keymap>

Keymap 3

Cut and paste the following into a new text document and save as keyboard.xml and place in userdata/keymaps/

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<keymap>
  <Global>
    <keyboard>
      <rewind>PageUp</rewind>
      <fastforward>PageDown</fastforward>
    </keyboard>
  </Global>
  <Home>
    <keyboard>
      <menu>XBMC.ActivateWindow(favourites)</menu>
    </keyboard>
  </Home>
  <FullscreenVideo>
    <keyboard>
      <menu>ShowSubtitles</menu>
      <backspace>Stop</backspace>
      <rewind>Rewind</rewind>
      <fastforward>FastForward</fastforward>
    </keyboard>
  </FullscreenVideo>
  <VideoMenu>
    <keyboard>
      <backspace>Stop</backspace>
    </keyboard>
  </VideoMenu>
</keymap>

What it does

Button	Global action	Home Screen action	DVD Menu action	Fullscreen Video action
3	Directional pad: Up Down Right Left	Directional pad: Up Down Right Left	Directional pad: Up Down Right Left	Directional pad: Up: Next chapter or go forward 10 minutes Down: Previous chapter or go back 10 minutes Right: +30 seconds Left: -30 seconds
4	Select	Select	Select	On-screen-display menu
6	Context menu	Show Favourites	Context menu	Toggle subtitles on/off
7	Page Down	Page Down	Page Down	Fast forward
8	Play/pause	Play/pause	Play/pause	Play/pause
9	Back	Back	Stop	Stop
10	Page Up	Page Up	Page Up	Rewind

Keymap 4

Cut and paste the following into a new text document and save as keyboard.xml and place in userdata/keymaps/

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<keymap>
  <Global>
    <keyboard>
      <rewind>PageUp</rewind>
      <fastforward>PageDown</fastforward>
    </keyboard>
  </Global>
  <Home>
    <keyboard>
      <backspace>XBMC.ActivateWindow(favourites)</backspace>
    </keyboard>
  </Home>
  <FullscreenVideo>
    <keyboard>
      <menu>SmallStepBack</menu>
      <backspace>Stop</backspace>
      <rewind>Rewind</rewind>
      <fastforward>FastForward</fastforward>
    </keyboard>
  </FullscreenVideo>
  <VideoMenu>
    <keyboard>
      <backspace>Stop</backspace>
    </keyboard>
  </VideoMenu>
  <VideoOSD>
    <keyboard>
      <menu>CodecInfo</menu>
    </keyboard>
  </VideoOSD>
  <FullscreenLiveTV>
    <keyboard>
      <menu>ActivateWindow(pvrosdchannels)</menu>
    </keyboard>
  </FullscreenLiveTV>
  <pvrosdchannels>
    <keyboard>
      <menu>back</menu>
    </keyboard>
  </pvrosdchannels>
  <MyFiles>
    <keyboard>
      <play_pause>Highlight</play_pause>
    </keyboard>
  </MyFiles>
  <virtualkeyboard>
    <keyboard>
      <menu>shift</menu>
      <play_pause>Symbols</play_pause>
      <rewind>CursorLeft</rewind>
      <fastforward>CursorRight</fastforward>
    </keyboard>
  </virtualkeyboard>
</keymap>

What it does

Button	Global action	Virtual keyboard	Fullscreen Video action
3	Directional pad: Up Down Right Left	Directional pad: Up Down Right Left	Directional pad: Up: Video - Next chapter/channel or go forward 10 minutes Down: Previous chapter/channel or go back 10 minutes Right: +30 seconds Left: -30 seconds
4	Select	Select	On-screen-display menu
6	Context menu	Shift	SmallStepBack (go back 7 seconds) or Live TV OSD channel switcher (also opens CodecInfo when the on-screen-display controls are visible)
7	Page Down	Move cursor right	Fast forward
8	Play/pause (also highlights on File manager)	Symbols	Play/pause
9	Back (show Favorites while on home screen)	Stop
10	Page Up	Move cursor left	Rewind