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This will allow your arrow keys to use the on-screen keyboard even though Kodi thinks your remote is a keyboard already. Go into Kodi and then Settings -> System -> Input devices and enable Remote control sends keyboard presses. Note: This step is not required for Kodi v14 and higher. If Kodi is already running then restart it so that the changes take effect. In March of 2015, the file generated by Keymap Editor is called "gen.xml". Note: if you use the Keymap Editor addon for Kodi, you need to append these new XML lines above inside the XML file generated by this addon, not in keyboard.xml. Note: In some Android setups the path may be slightly different to the one stated above. %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\XBMCFoundation.Kodi_4n2hpmxwrvr6p\LocalCache\Roaming\Kodi\ Smb:///internal/Android/data//files/.kodi/userdata Users//Library/Application Support/Kodi/userdata/ private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/Kodi/userdata/ The Userdata folder is a subfolder of the Kodi Data Folder and is located as shown in the table below.Īndroid/data//files/.kodi/userdata/ (see note) Make sure that the file extension is ".xml" and not ".txt" or ".xml.txt".Ĭut and paste this into your new plain text file: If you have a normal "MCE" style remote or non-Android CEC device, then this how-to may not necessary.Ĭreate a plain text file (no rich text formatting, don't use.
#MAP PRIVATE CHARACTER EDITOR TO KEYBOARD KEYS HOW TO#
If you have a remote control that is viewed as a keyboard to Kodi and want to enable SMS-style text input and page jumping, this guide wills how you how to enable this using a custom keymap. HOW-TO:Use SMS-style text entry for remotes