XBMC Keymap for a Diamond RC118N MCE Remote
May 5, 2010 – 9:47 pmThe Diamond RC118N is not a good remote to choose. I messed with this for a while without much luck. Most of the buttons work out of the box. The power buttons, those in the first row (Pictures, Radio, ect), the Back button and the row under mute (Rec TV, Guide, ect) do not work. There is no menu button. The pause button doesn't work, but you can get around that by pressing the play button.
This config below will get your ParentDir function working via the 'Back' button and the ContextMenu via * or #.
This needs to go into the global keyboard section of keymap.xml:
<code>
<key id="61606">ParentDir</key>
<key id="61600">ContextMenu</key>
</code>
2 Responses to “XBMC Keymap for a Diamond RC118N MCE Remote”
Dean,
Thanks for this quick update. I wish I saw your update before I bought the same remote!
I did find that the CLEAR key in the lower left of the remote does function like a menu key so with your fixes the remote is workable and not a total waste.
By the way what program/utility did you use to find the keyid’s? I would like to fix the PAUSE key and see if I could set one of the other keys to zoom.
Thanks!
By Eric W. on May 18, 2010
Glad it helped!
You can put XBMC into debug mode, then watch the xbmc.log it produces as you press buttons on the remote.
OnKey: XXXXX is the id you need.
By Dean on Jun 30, 2010