Keyboard support on OSMC?

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@AndersG

We have a plexgear 94759 mini keyboard, but I have never gotten the layout right. It just works as a US/UK keyboard, despite me having chosen “Swedish qwerty” as layout. This has worked anyhow as most search engines will accept a instead of åä, or o instead of ö, but I would still like to fix it. How do I proceed. I have chosen Swedish in OSMC and location Finland.

As of today local keyboard layouts need to be set manually, see this post

Keyboard layout corresponding to set Region

Yes it is planned but with no ETA yet. Meanwhile, you will have to do some work with the commandline. Details regarding how to access the command line interface can be found here on our Wiki: Accessing the command line - General - OSMC You will have type the following commands: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install console-data sudo loadkeys de-latin1 Your keyboard should now be working correctly. To load the QWERTZ layout when vero starts you have to put a command into a file called r…

@AndersG

The keyboard has dedicated multimedia buttons for volume/mute/search etc. How do I figure out the kodes to be able to activate those in keymap.xml?

They easiest is to enable debug logging and have a tail on the log file tail -f /home/osmc/.kodi/temp/kodi.log