[HowTo] Use coloured buttons of remote (1 Viewer)

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This is a "How to" for Mediaportal to use the coloured buttons of the remote with a context related configuration.
What you need is, to change the skin files of the windows, where you want to use special commands for the coloured buttons and the Generic Keyboard Remote plugin.

The configuration is splitted in two parts:

1. Skin changes

• You can use the examples in "Skinfiles.zip" to get a start point.

• Copy the original *.xml skin files to a backup folder.

• The file "Default_Buttons.txt" contain the basic skin changes.

• Copy all lines into every skinfile, where you want to show the information for the coloured buttons.

• Change the text in the line where <label>Red Functions</label> is located.

• Repeat the action obove for the Green, Yellow, and Blue line.

2. Generic Keyboard Remote plugin

• Install Generic Keyboard Remote plugin.

• Open Mediaportal configuration.

• Go to "Plugins" section.

• Open "Keyboard input" plugin configuration.

• Import the "Keyboard.xml" file.

• Change the actions of every button related to the window of the skin.

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