The other three things you wanted I think will be in the final mapping. As for this one I understand why your wanting this so I searched high and low for a way to do this… and came up empty. You can map the action “AspectRatio” but that cycles through all of the options. Furthermore because of the way that control works it pretty much has to be put on a shortpress button as the delay with longpress makes that control incredibly frustrating to actually use that way.
I ran across someone who scripted it in python but that was a messy solution that was not seamless. I think there may be a way to program the function into a skin as a onclick action and then that would allow you to map a sendclick in a keymap but as I know nothing of skinning I could be completely wrong.
On a general note to this topic I think we are getting very close to getting to getting this into testing. If there is an action for a specific screen (other than full screen video playback) that would be useful and sensible to have added as a default mapping then right now would be the best time to speak up. I only use certain aspects of Kodi, and have only recently started using this remote, so please don’t expect me to know what is lacking in its current state. For example, I don’t use the picture section but I noticed when editing the map that this remote currently lacks the ability to properly zoom so it make sense to add…
I for one would love it, but I understand if your average user wouldn’t find them useful.
I’d be happy enough mapping this myself. @darwindesign good work mate, looking forward to testing.
As far as i’m aware without a custom map this is not available without a keyboard to press ctrl+shift+o. Are you thinking of playerprocessinfo which is something different (and will be longpress info button) and what the remote brings up now?
I decided to go ahead and map it for the initial testing release. I’m sure the users will let me know if there is a more important function to be added in it’s location.
EDIT: I just figured out what you meant. It looks like that is something that Chillbo added into the OSMC skin (I use estuary normally) and you can access it that way. Personally I think the longpress is a bit better approach than bringing up a window to turn on/off an overlay requiring you to dismiss the window again. Plus this allows the overlay to be seen on skins other than OSMC.
@darwindesign Sorry if this has already been proposed, but what I would find very useful would be a long press to trigger recording when in the live TV epg…atm I need about 4 button presses.
Would there be a change in battery usage in the newer OSMC remote controller?
Because I have found that I need to replace the battery almost every 3 months. (And I have 2 remotes, so every 6 weeks)
(And especially when it it is wearing out the button presses are not always working, pushing on the bottom battery lid when pressing helps to “squeeze” the last bits out of the battery :-D)
