Trouble with play and pause actions in the same remote button (1 Viewer)

[joie]

Hi there guys;

I own the logitech UltraX remote. I can use mediaportal with it thru eventghost without main issues. I have only one problem. The remote has the play and pause actions in the same button (play/pause button).

My problem is that if I press the play/pause button while watching a movie, it pauses (great), but if I press it again, it pauses again instead of resume the movie.

How can I fix that?, How can I tell Mediaportal to understand the button as "play" when the movie is paused, and as "pause" when it is playing?.

Thank's in advance.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Map your play key to spacebar not P, that should give pause resume.

 

[joie]

But inside eventghost I can map remote buttons to actions, not letters of the keyboard..., or I don't know how to do that. Do you know how to do that?.

Thank's in advance for your patience

 

[Deda]

Yes you can, just add an action, select Window actions on the left listbox and choose Emulate Keystrokes.

With that you can remap every remote button keypress event if you like.

 

[SilentException]

joie, are you using MessagePlugin in mediaportal?

 

[joie]

Yes I´m using message plugin in mediaportal, but without configuring anything since I don't know what to configure.

I'm going with the eventghost solution and see what happens

 

[SilentException]

EventGhost sends window messages to MePo and MessagePlugin processes them. It's faster and more reliable method than sending keystrokes.

You need to modify default bindings of MessagePlugin. If you already have separate play/pause actions, remove them. Then you should add one common play/pause action and assign a conditions.

Player.Playing action code = pause
otherwise action code = play

In EventGhost you should bind Play/Pause button on the remote to the newly created action..

Simple!

 

[joie]

Ok, I can now map the space key (wich is pause and play) to my play/pause remote button, but in mediaportal, when I press the button it receives play and pause actions at the same time, so the video is paused just a milisecond and then continue playing...

 

[Dragy]

Send your EventGhost config please.

 

[joie]

Now it works. instead of having two events, one for play and one for pause, now I have only one event that calls the space bar. It may not be an elegant solution, but it works.

Thank's.