harmony 880 and shutdone command

[braswimmer]

hi

i managed to get my 880 to shutdown my xbox when pressing the off button on the remote and wanted to share this in case anyone is interested.

i followed the advice of kraqh3d and jmarshall on a different keymap forum post to get the desired result.

1. harmony880 - obtain the xbox dvd remote codes on your remote by interfacing from the harmony site. those with this remote (hopefully) know what i mean here. also ensure that you set the harmony to turn off the xbox on shutdown;
2. edit your xbmediacenter.xml - by changing the condition on the "displayremotecodes" to "true". re boot xbox. what this does is display the code that the remote is sending to the xbox.
3. get your harmony880 - select it to control your xbox and push all the buttons - you will note various remote codes displaying in the top lhs of the screen. you can select any code - however one code i found the harmony transmits that does not appear to be mapped in the xbmc keymap.xml file is "remotecode 58"
4. suggest that you test this out first to make sure for some reason code 58 is not assigned to your keymap.xml. im using the 1.0 version of xbmc so perhaps this has changed;
5. now, edit the keymap.xml file. you will find in the first section of this file (global settings area) an action that contains "xbmc.sutdown ()" - this is the xbmc shutdown command;
6. edit the action to read the following:
<action>
<description>shutdown power</description>
<id>xbmc.shutdown()</id>
<remotecode>58</remotecode>
</action>

7. enjoy! now you dont have to get off your ass to switch everything off!











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[robertmee]

could you please tell me exactly which device to select on the harmony website. while the xbox dvd remote controls xbmc perfectly, i cannot for the life of me get the harmony remote to do so. i've tried to use the device listed under game console - microsoft - xbox dvd w/ remote and xbox dvd, and neither work. yes, they give the correct list of commands but the ir codes don't seem to be the same. even if i go through and manually learn each ir code from the xbox dvd remote, it doesn't work well because the harmony will learn a single up or down command as three or four commands, no matter what i set the inter-device or inter-command delays to.

thanks for any insight

robert

[rcrh]

try the xbox media center extender.

selecting that got my harmony 676 to work fine. i particularly like that the page up & page down keys now move you a screen at a time.

[divinewrite]

i managed to get my 880 to shutdown my xbox when pressing the off button on the remote and wanted to share this in case anyone is interested.

Great! Thanks braswimmer.

I haven't tried this yet, but I plan to.

BTW, are you able to turn the xbox ON with the remote too?

Cheers.

[gzusrawx]

that tutuorial is outdated we no longer us xboxmediacenter.xml
infact I think all you need to change is keymap.xml which is in the userdata directory. And no without hardware modification you can't turn the xbox on by remote.

[gzusrawx]

Oh sorry the "display remote codes" is now in advancedsetttings.xml whic you may have to create if it's not there.

[finas]

I have an harmony 885, and what I did last week was to install a x3ir mod to power on/off the xbox with the remote. I also made the dvd dongle internal.
On the harmony I just configured it to power on with the "display" button and to power off when pressing "0" three times ( the default configuration that comes with the x3ir)
It works great.
And the best thing of this is that when the xbox crashes ( happens from time to time) I just need to poweroff and on again with the remote.. no need to get of the sofa :)

[sCAPe]

Also check out this tutorial:
http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=HOW-TO:_Setup_your_Harmony_Remote_to_turn_your_XBox_ON _and_OFF