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     </keyboard>
     </keyboard>
   </NumericInput>
   </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>
</keymap>
</syntaxhighlight>
</syntaxhighlight>

Revision as of 03:42, 30 December 2013

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, do the following:

  1. Settings/System/Input devices -> enable "Remote control sends keyboard presses"
  2. make a keyboard.xml keymap file with this (save it in userdata/keymaps/):
    <?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>
        </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>
        </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>