Apple Remote (silver) Context Menu

gabegabe69 · 29 October 2015 17:38

I’ve configured the apple remote (silver) to work with the raspberry pi 2.

I’ve used the default conf file (I’ve found on Remotes menu in MyOSMC configuration):

osmc/osmc/blob/master/package/remote-osmc/files/etc/lirc/apple-silver-A1294-lircd.conf


# Please make this file available to others
# by sending it to <lirc@bartelmus.de>
#
# this config file was automatically generated
# using lirc-0.9.0(default) on Tue Jun  2 22:56:05 2015
#
# contributed by DBMandrake
#
# brand:                       Apple
# model no. of remote control: A1294 (silver)
# devices being controlled by this remote:
#

begin remote

  name  Apple_A1294
  bits            8
  flags SPACE_ENC|CONST_LENGTH
  eps            30

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Everything work fine!

But… I cannot configure the apple remote in order to access to the “Context Menu”
Is there any way in order to add some new keymap (long press, hold press, double clic, etc.)

Into the conf file I’ve found only 7 Keymap:
KEY_UP 0x50
KEY_DOWN 0x30
KEY_LEFT 0x90
KEY_RIGHT 0x60
KEY_OK 0x3A 0xA0
KEY_MENU 0xC0
KEY_PLAY 0xFA 0xA0

Is there any way to add others Keymap:
something like:

Alternative_keymaps_for_Apple_remote (joystick.AppleRemote.xml)

Thank You

DBMandrake · 5 November 2015 12:21

At the moment there is no way to configure a long press or double click to perform a different action so yes, it does make the Apple remote barely usable, with no way to really use the context menu, as the menu button ends up needing to be used as a back button.

In the next major release of Kodi (Jarvis) I believe native support is being added for “long press” which would make it possible to do what you are asking, however Jarvis is a few months away yet.

Unfortunately the Apple remotes (especially the original white ones) just don’t have enough buttons to be a fully usable Kodi remote without long press support.