OpenATV 7.3 - ZGemma. How to configure a key on the remote control for PiP.

Hi,

I just checked a bit OpenWebIf and saw that its virtual remote control has a PiP key which actually

works, but the ZGemma's remote control doesn't have this specific key. To avoid having to go

through the menus to activate PiP, how could I assign a key, long press if needed is fine, to activate

PiP with the physical remote control?

I thought of trying the HotKeys functions, but before that I'd like to know if there is another way

already available.

Also, I would like to assign another key to make the InfoBar visible permanently. Long pressing the

OK key would be fine.

Thanks.

Thanks, guys!

Yes, I can activate PiP by accesing the Extensions menu long pressing the blue button, but

then you have to scroll down and hit the 'Activation' entry... Many hits, so I want a faster

way, just hitting one key like the virtual remote control does.

I will try it later when I get home. Cool for the PiP feature. But what about the InfoBar? I want

it to stay permanently when long pressing the OK key and then making it disappear with the

Exit key. Is it posible to do this also with the HotKeys configuration?

Quote from giopet

InfoBar you can´t permanently with OK Long,but you can make the InfoBar permanently under Menue/Setup/Usage & GUI/OSD Settings/InfoBar Timeout = No Timeout,then it remains permanent when you press the OK button and extit from the InfoBar with the exit button..

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Yes, thanks, I knew that, but I don't like it permanently like that, I want it on only when I need it in some

cases like when checking the TV signal and such. Hmm, if not the OK key, perhaps another key? Maybe

there could be another way to do it...

OK, so I've assigned the PiP function to the Back key which is more handy than the yellow key,

and also because it was configured to show the History Zap and this was already available

with the Prev and Next keys.

Also assigned the PiP-Zap swapping feature to the Back key, but with the Long pressing. Both

work nicely. Although if PiP is used with video playback, neither work, I don't know why, so

you have to press the blue key to select the PiP-Zap feature - of course in order to use PiP

while playing back a video you have to activate first PiP and then load the video, because if

you try activating PiP while the video is already being played you get an error message, and

I guess this is normal.

Quote from abu baniaz

If you are checking signal, you can use the signal finder applet. Pressing Exit will exit the current screen almost everywhere. Otherwise people would be locked in and be unable to do anything else.

Not only checking the signal meter, also some other details like the blue progress bar or whatever.

Now that you mention it, what is the signal finder applet? where is it? not sure if I saw that...

I'll have a look at that signal finder, maybe I saw it but I don't remember now what that was exactly.

Regarding the second InfoBar, I have it activated but actually I have not seen it yet... weird. I did

try pressing the OK key twice several times just in case it could stay permanent, but it didn't,

and that didn't show any second bar... hmm, not sure it this second bar not showing up has

something to do with the configuration I modified a bit with the MetrixHD plugin this skin has.

Anyway, I'll have a look later whe I get home.

Thanks.

Thanks. PiP is fine now with the Back key. I will do some testings with both InfoBars to see what can

be done with them.

Now, a more important feature I'd like to enjoy and, asked about it here but nobody answered yet,

and I can not find any info about it anywhere: Zoom. Is it possible to have zoom for live TV and

video playback with the OpenATV image? If not, is there any other image that does it? I could try

any other image installing it on another multiboot slot since I have 3 free yet.

OpenATV's Teletext has zoom, so I guess it could also be implemented for live TV and video

playback. Maybe it's already there but I haven't seen it...

Too bad zoom wouldn't work... no Image team has been able to make it work?

I don't understand why. I still have an old dual tuner DVB-T Linux receiver, HMR-2000, which

does zoom pretty well, zooming in even at x8 and with the option to move the screen

up/down/left/right.

Quote from KiddaC

I dont think you can zoom in and out the tv picture. But you can change the aspect ratio.

probably v.mode button on zgemma (or long hold green)

<key id="KEY_VMODE" mapto="toggleAspectRatio" flags="m" />

<key id="KEY_GREEN" mapto="aspectSelection" flags="l" />




Regarding the keymap.xml file editing, two things:

I've seen 2 commands named "size+" and "size-" in the "PiPSetupActions" section. These change the size of the

window, I guess. So, a command like this could be used for the main window in order to zoom n? Maybe this

is just a wild guess.

And the second interesting thing I've seen in this keys config file: I want to configure the NEXT ans PREV keys

so they jump to the next and previous videos while playing back them in folders I have with several short

videos, home movies and such. I haven't found the way to do it in the HotKeys menu, so could this be done

by editing the keymap.xml file? I saw the commands "prevsong" and "nextsong". Would these commands

work for this simple tasks?

Thanks.

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