ok I know there are a ton of threads about if a wireless usb mouse will work with the Motorola Camera Connection Kit.
Yes a usb mouse does work (at least for me) with the camera usb connector, but what I've yet to find on here and my searches was that your limited on what the mouse actually does.
I guess this is still a software and Android OS limitation, but I was hoping I might have some functionality with the mouse other that just move/point click (all buttons on my win mouse are just normal click function) while the mouse wheel scrolls.
Is there anyway to configure the mouse's buttons for different key commands? I was really hoping to be able to use my mouse's previous/forward button in the default browser.
any apps that might configure or assign key commands to the mouse on honeycomb 3.2?
kwhy said:
ok I know there are a ton of threads about if a wireless usb mouse will work with the Motorola Camera Connection Kit.
Yes a usb mouse does work (at least for me) with the camera usb connector, but what I've yet to find on here and my searches was that your limited on what the mouse actually does.
I guess this is still a software and Android OS limitation, but I was hoping I might have some functionality with the mouse other that just move/point click (all buttons on my win mouse are just normal click function) while the mouse wheel scrolls.
Is there anyway to configure the mouse's buttons for different key commands? I was really hoping to be able to use my mouse's previous/forward button in the default browser.
any apps that might configure or assign key commands to the mouse on honeycomb 3.2?
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Not sure but I'd also like to know how to change the mouse cursor - it's kind of small and also if anyone knows where the cursor files are stored?
I use a Logitech V470 BT Mouse and also get click n' drag and some right click function depending on which app I'm in.
I just bought my elderly dad an iconia. He's been typing away in Vietnamese with a keyboard and an onscreen viet symbols on the viewsonic gtablet.
The problem is honeycomb won't have an onscreen keyboard pop up if you have a usb keyboard plugged in. Please help me. Is there anyway I can enable both the physical and soft keyboards so he can type Vietnamese symbols?
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I just bought my elderly dad an iconia. He's been typing away in Vietnamese with a keyboard and an onscreen viet symbols on the viewsonic gtablet.
The problem is honeycomb won't have an onscreen keyboard pop up if you have a usb keyboard plugged in. Please help me. Is there anyway I can enable both the physical and soft keyboards so he can type Vietnamese symbols?
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I haven't tried it, but I would try tapping and holding the input field and see if a pop up menu comes up with the option of showing the soft keyboard?
I think you can push the up key on the tablet to bring it up, theres also settings i believe for the keyboard.
I am trying to setup my Flirc with the Nexus Player, for both native NP keys and the full spectrum of XBMC/kodi keys. I have all of the kodi keys working properly and the UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, SELECT and PLAY/PAUSE buttons work just fine on the main Nexus Player interface. However, the mapped BACK and MENU keys are not working. For those that don't know, a Flirc USB devices presents itself as a standard keyboard to the Nexus Player and can be programmed on your PC to learn remote control commands to activate specific generic keyboard combinations.
If anyone has a standard keyboard hooked up to their NP either via Blutooth or USB OTG, can you tell me which keys correspond to the BACK and HOME functions on the Nexus Player or if those functions are working at all on your keyboard?
Thanks.
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I am trying to setup my Flirc with the Nexus Player, for both native NP keys and the full spectrum of XBMC/kodi keys. I have all of the kodi keys working properly and the UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, SELECT and PLAY/PAUSE buttons work just fine on the main Nexus Player interface. However, the mapped BACK and MENU keys are not working. For those that don't know, a Flirc USB devices presents itself as a standard keyboard to the Nexus Player and can be programmed on your PC to learn remote control commands to activate specific generic keyboard combinations.
If anyone has a standard keyboard hooked up to their NP either via Blutooth or USB OTG, can you tell me which keys correspond to the BACK and HOME functions on the Nexus Player or if those functions are working at all on your keyboard?
Thanks.
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I haven't tested this yet, but typically the Windows key + ESC = HOME (or, depending, sometimes the HOME key itself on a keyboard). BACK is typically the ESC key by itself.
My FLIRC arrived yesterday -- just haven't configured it yet. I'll give it a whirl and get back to you!
PearcePowers said:
I haven't tested this yet, but typically the Windows key + ESC = HOME (or, depending, sometimes the HOME key itself on a keyboard). BACK is typically the ESC key by itself.
My FLIRC arrived yesterday -- just haven't configured it yet. I'll give it a whirl and get back to you!
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Thank you. I got the back key working correctly (and, in the NP, it is indeed ESC), but you'll have to go in to XBMC/kodi and add in the keymapper in programs then globally change ESC to be BACKSPACE and BACKSPACE to be ESC. Otherwise the NP back key would be "previous menu" in kodi. Make sure to update your Flirc with the full keyboard template to change the ESC key to your remote button you wish. Once done, both the NP and kodi see ESC as the back key.
I still haven't figured out the HOME key yet... I have a "HOME" special button atop my wireless keyboard that works, but I can't scancode it properly so I'm not sure what it is yet (I've read it may be scancode 57, but thats normally "space", so not sure and haven't tested it yet) I'll see if WIN+ESC works from my keyboard when I get home tomorrow. Hope to hear your experiences as well... thanks.
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I'll see if WIN+ESC works from my keyboard when I get home tomorrow. Hope to hear your experiences as well... thanks.
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I tested the following three keyboard commands -- WIN + ESC, ALT + ESC, and HOME -- and none work in the Nexus Player to take you home. Grr. I've got everything working but the HOME key as well.
PearcePowers said:
I tested the following three keyboard commands -- WIN + ESC, ALT + ESC, and HOME -- and none work in the Nexus Player to take you home. Grr. I've got everything working but the HOME key as well.
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There is a topic about this over on the Flirc forums that you may want to follow:
http://forum.flirc.tv/index.php?/topic/1219-flirc-and-android-tv-adt-1/
I have a wireless keyboard that has extra media keys including a Home key (not the regular Home, End, etc). It works just like the Home key on the NP remote. I'm not at home right now, but had hooked it up to one of my laptops and that special Home key sends key code 172.
We just need to figure out how to teach Flirc that key code then map one of our remote buttons to that key.
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There is a topic about this over on the Flirc forums that you may want to follow:
http://forum.flirc.tv/index.php?/topic/1219-flirc-and-android-tv-adt-1/
I have a wireless keyboard that has extra media keys including a Home key (not the regular Home, End, etc). It works just like the Home key on the NP remote. I'm not at home right now, but had hooked it up to one of my laptops and that special Home key sends key code 172.
We just need to figure out how to teach Flirc that key code then map one of our remote buttons to that key.
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Any luck with the home key and Flirc? I noticed no one has responded over in the Flirc forums yet.
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Any luck with the home key and Flirc? I noticed no one has responded over in the Flirc forums yet.
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Not as yet. It seems more complicated than I first thought... the record_api function of flirc_util.exe can map HID commands to remote control buttons, but finding the correct HID for "Home" is difficult. There are thousands of HID commands as referenced in this document:
http://www.usb.org/developers/hidpage/Hut1_12v2.pdf
We're looking at the ones in the Consumer Page starting on page 75. There is a special modifier in the second argument of Firc's record_api, 102, that supposedly tells the Flirc to reference that Consumer Page, but finding the "Home" key for the first argument of record_api is difficult. In other words: no. No luck yet, but still trying.
It'd probably be useful if you were to post a thread over there asking for help with the Home key on the Nexus Player as well. I'd imagine the higher the request for it the more eyes it'll receive.
Could be something that could be setup in llama or tasker? Set NP to listen for XYZ key command and then "Go Home". Just a thought.
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Not as yet. It seems more complicated than I first thought... the record_api function of flirc_util.exe can map HID commands to remote control buttons, but finding the correct HID for "Home" is difficult. There are thousands of HID commands as referenced in this document:
http://www.usb.org/developers/hidpage/Hut1_12v2.pdf
We're looking at the ones in the Consumer Page starting on page 75. There is a special modifier in the second argument of Firc's record_api, 102, that supposedly tells the Flirc to reference that Consumer Page, but finding the "Home" key for the first argument of record_api is difficult. In other words: no. No luck yet, but still trying.
It'd probably be useful if you were to post a thread over there asking for help with the Home key on the Nexus Player as well. I'd imagine the higher the request for it the more eyes it'll receive.
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Did you manage to map a true home function to your Flirc device, Elrondolio? The ALT + ESC key combination works okay for me in most cases although it doesn't work when I use Kodi. It's still better than no home functionality at all, though, so at least I won't always have to use the original Nexus Player remote when I need that feature. There's another thread at the Flirc forum which discusses this topic at http://forum.flirc.tv/index.php?/topic/1462-flirc-with-android-tv/.
ALT + TAB seems to be the ideal key combination to use for the home button. It works no matter which app you're in and although it causes the Nexus Player to display "your recent screens appear here" when you use that key combination, the on-screen message disappears as soon as you release the button.
Now if I can just figure out how to use the Nexus Player's Leanback keyboard with my universal remote so that I can select on-screen keys for searches instead of having the ENTER button close the keyboard off, that would make things just about perfect.
I was the one that posted in Flirc forum about the alt+tab for home.
For search using on-screen, map flirc to window key using command. then combine this key with navigation right key using your universal remote, such as logitech. so WIN + Right will launch search with on screen keyboard to type.
Thanks for posting your solution in the Flirc forum. I'm not trying to map a command to launch an on-screen keyboard but I'm trying to see if I can find a way to press the keys on the Leanback keyboard using my universal remote. This isn't a problem with some apps like Netflix or Kodi that have their own keyboards but for the Leanback keyboard that's used in apps like Google Play and YouTube, pressing the ENTER button on a universal remote causes the keyboard to close off. This problem does not exist with the original Nexus Player remote's select button because it is context-sensitive.
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If anyone has a standard keyboard hooked up to their NP either via Blutooth or USB OTG, can you tell me which keys correspond to the BACK and HOME functions on the Nexus Player or if those functions are working at all on your keyboard?
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Back: Esc
Home: Alt+Esc
Unfortunately, the ALT + TAB key combination is not an ideal option for use with Android 6.0 Marshmallow. It actually brings up the recent apps screen and doesn't give the user easy access to the home screen (unless the recent apps screen is empty). I'll have to reprogram my Flirc back to ALT + ESC for the home screen function until someone finds a better solution for Android 6.0.
I don't have a nexus player but these issues sound similar to the shield tv.
To fix the Enter key issue with the onscreen keyboard, us the flirc_util to record the keypad's enter key (a different dev id than the other enter/return key):
HTML:
flirc_util.exe record_api 0 88
To record the Home button (that works from Kodi too), record Windows Key + Enter (the main Enter key works fine for this). Again, I don't have a nexus player but I assume it will work for it as well.
whiskaz77 said:
I don't have a nexus player but these issues sound similar to the shield tv.
To fix the Enter key issue with the onscreen keyboard, us the flirc_util to record the keypad's enter key (a different dev id than the other enter/return key):
HTML:
flirc_util.exe record_api 0 88
To record the Home button (that works from Kodi too), record Windows Key + Enter (the main Enter key works fine for this). Again, I don't have a nexus player but I assume it will work for it as well.
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I tried out these key combinations with my Flirc on the Nexus Player and am happy to report that everything now works perfectly! Thank you kindly for sharing that useful information here with the rest of us.
GabbyWC said:
I tried out these key combinations with my Flirc on the Nexus Player and am happy to report that everything now works perfectly! Thank you kindly for sharing that useful information here with the rest of us.
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Great! Happy to help. I'm glad it worked. Thanks for reporting back!
Windows Key + Enter => Home worked for me too!!! Kodi, Netflix and other apps now behave fine. Thanks a lot @whiskaz77
hi,
I've been using my shield with mkr(multilingual key redefiner) keyboard to remap extra buttons on my harmony but losing on-screen keyboard is quite uncomfortable.
although mkr works great as key remapper but it seems it's abandoned long ago (last update was feb. 2014) and cannot be used as a android tv keyboard at all.
so I'd like to know if there's another keyboard or any other way to accomplish this:
a good leanback keyboard + key remap (+multilingual support, if possible)
plz help.
thanks.
I am looking for the same! I emailed the original Dev, but got no response. I decompiled the APK and found that it contains the source code of the original latinIME keyboard -- not sure if we could decompile the Leanback Keyboard as well and "swap" it into the app.
shiree1 said:
hi,
I've been using my shield with mkr(multilingual key redefiner) keyboard to remap extra buttons on my harmony but losing on-screen keyboard is quite uncomfortable.
although mkr works great as key remapper but it seems it's abandoned long ago (last update was feb. 2014) and cannot be used as a android tv keyboard at all.
so I'd like to know if there's another keyboard or any other way to accomplish this:
a good leanback keyboard + key remap (+multilingual support, if possible)
plz help.
thanks.
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Hi,
check this one : https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/android-tv-control-mapper-keyboard-cmak-t3462028
The problem is that with Amazon TV stick remote ( BT one) I am not able to select any letter in keyboard - with shield gamepad it is working fine.