Im using the remote that came with my PVR350 and since it has a button with a picture of a home on it, I would like to set this button up to go directly to the main mythtv menu. Right now its setup just to escape. This works ok as long as it is only 1 escape away from the main menu. Is there any way that I could set it up to do this?

Thanks!

This thread may be of assistance:
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4281

the link above discusses 'jump points' which allow single key access to different parts of the myth system...unfortunatly, the list of places you can jump to does not include the main/top menu....any menu for that matter.

I'd guess that there are two reasons for this:

1) Once you 'jump' somewhere, say LiveTV and are done there and press 'ecsape' you return to where you jumped from. For example, it you are in the DVD menu and press the key mapped to 'LiveTV' you get LiveTV. then if you press escape to leave LiveTV you return to the DVD menu and NOT to the menu with the liveTV option.

This behavior would flow very oddly within menus. suppose you were on DVD menu and pressed the key to Jump to MainMenu, then watched LiveTV for a while....escape exits out of LiveTV, back to Main...then a second escape take you to DVD menu, rather then exiting the frontend. With some menu navigation and a few 'mainmenu jumps' you would get hopelessly lost in a stack of seemingly unrelated menus when escaping out

2) Compime the above with dynamicly (xml) configuruable menus...good luck!

this is just a guess, I haven't done any research on this

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Could you make the escape key do lots of escapes, combined with the change to make exiting the main menu use the Alt-X key? Then wherever you are, it should take you back to the main menu.

do know about that...but that might be kinda odd as well

LiveTV -> ProgramGuide -> want to go back to LiveTv -> escape button -> end up at MainMenu

Dont get me wrong here, I would love the same feature. Lets keep thinking.

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maybe a button on the remote (different from the escape key) that uses irxevents to call a script to send a handful of escapes to the frontend.

I've never used irxevents, is this possible?

Ill play at home tonight of I get a chance

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well, its not irevent its irexec

without going too far down a rathole...you can config a button to execute a script..


This script can then sent 'escapes' to the front end with somethingk like xremote, xmacro...never used these so I have no idea if these will do what you want....but it will be kinda messy

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When mythtv starts up it automatically knows to go to the main menu. How is this implemented?

another way (albeit ugly) to get to the main menu would just be to restart mythfrontend... there is a thread detailing how to restart the frontend with your remote....

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