Vero V & Harmony Elite

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Although you could program a long-press in Harmony to a different button press, it is highly unlikely this would be optimal for controlling Kodi. You can shift buttons pretty easy this way if you have something you like the default mappings, but if you want to go any farther then it gets really confusing trying to make any customizations on specific windows as your having to reference what buttons sent out what buttons and the whole thing turns into a mess. Also, after you get the hang of how the keymap works it is, in my opinion at least, a lot faster and easier to tweak than messing around in Logitech’s software.

Besides, the default Kodi mappings are sane defaults designed to work with a wide variety of remotes. Some simple things like enabling sms jumps in the library, single press live TV, deleting recordings without the context menu, etc. can bring some nice improvements with just a small time investment. There are a lot of things in Kodi you might want a button for that have no default mappings so you have to keymap them anyway.

42

Sure, and that;s what I use. But if he is having trouble with a single key, seems simpler to use the harmony software which he no doubt is familiar with

43

Can’t get it to work it seems, it just switches in recently added movies to Unwatched and normal view…

<keymap>
  <fullscreenvideo>
    <keyboard>
      <u>AudioNextLanguage</u>
      <w>PlayerDebug</w>
    </keyboard>
  </fullscreenvideo>
  <global>
    <keyboard>
      <return mod="longpress">contextmenu</return>
    </keyboard>
  </global>
  <home>
    <keyboard>
      <return mod="longpress">contextmenu</return>
    </keyboard>
  </home>
</keymap>

I also tried with <return mod="longpress"/> like you suggested in the home section.

44

This worked perfectly:
You can turn off the new keymap by going to Settings>System>Input>Peripherals>OSMC RF Remote>Don’t use the custom keymap for this device> [enable] and then reboot Kodi. This will fall back to a keymap that is very close to the old behavior.

I have undone all the other changes, thanks @darwindesign for your help!

45

That would be expected with the keymap you fed it. I linked the keymaps so you could search them and see all the windows where that key was being mapped. In this instance it is mapped to toggle watched movies showing on/off in the videos window (the series and movies library views) as that seemed much more useful than a redundant context menu button. To fully return long-press return to Kodi defaults the keymap you would use would look like this…

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<keymap>
	<global>
		<keyboard>
			<return mod="longpress">contextmenu</return>
		</keyboard>
	</global>
	<Home>
		<keyboard>
			<return mod="longpress"/>
		</keyboard>
	</Home>
	<VirtualKeyboard>
		<keyboard>
			<return mod="longpress"/>
		</keyboard>
	</VirtualKeyboard>
	<FullscreenVideo>
		<keyboard>
			<return mod="longpress">PlayPause</return>
		</keyboard>
	</FullscreenVideo>
	<Visualisation>
		<keyboard>
			<return mod="longpress">PlayPause</return>
		</keyboard>
	</Visualisation>
	<MusicOSD>
		<keyboard>
			<return mod="longpress"/>
		</keyboard>
	</MusicOSD>
	<slideshow>
		<keyboard>
			<return mod="longpress"/>
		</keyboard>
	</slideshow>
	<VideoOSD>
		<keyboard>
			<return mod="longpress"/>
		</keyboard>
	</VideoOSD>
	<Videos>
		<keyboard>
			<return mod="longpress"/>
		</keyboard>
	</Videos>
	<VideoPlaylist>
		<keyboard>
			<return mod="longpress"/>
		</keyboard>
	</VideoPlaylist>
	<MusicPlaylist>
		<keyboard>
			<return mod="longpress"/>
		</keyboard>
	</MusicPlaylist>
	<FullscreenLiveTV>
		<keyboard>
			<return mod="longpress">ActivateWindow(PVROSDChannels)</return>
		</keyboard>
	</FullscreenLiveTV>
	<TVGuide>
		<keyboard>
			<return mod="longpress"/>
		</keyboard>
	</TVGuide>
	</keymap>
46

I tried that actually, the global and home, just not with a capital H … would that matter?

47

The keymaps are not case sensitive. I think you may have missed the part about the mappings being per window. When you mapped the the long-press enter to global and home it changed it in the home window (that is the main landing page where you choose between movies, music, add-ons, etc.) and everywhere that hadn’t already been mapped to a specific window. Because you are trying to affect a change in the “videos” window, and that key is mapped in that window in the OSMC keymap, if you want to override that then you have to include that. That keymap I just posted scrolls so you may have missed that there is quite a few windows that were modified. I didn’t test what I posted but I did verify the syntax is correct and am fairly confident that what I posted will do what you want (you would need to add your fullscreenviideo changes to it though).

48

Aahh yeah I didn’t know about the video section and other sections then global/home, then that was probably the issue indeed.

49

Just to share my own experience upgrading from Vero 4k to 5k. I couldn’t get the 5k to see my Harmony remote even though I had a Microsoft/Kodi device already set up in Harmony (and working fine with the 4k). I had to delete the Microsoft/Kodi device in the Harmony App, then add another (apparently identical) Microsoft/Kodi device, then re-run the activity setup. After that, the Vero 5k immediately saw the Harmony remote when detecting Bluetooth devices.