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First published by:
Kode
on Thu, Apr 16 2009
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dgaust
on Tue, Dec 1 2009
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Tips and Tricks

The Keyboard

Control+S Toggle between showing all or only unwatched shows
Control+A (only from Helix) Toggle between the Helix and BannerView main menu skins
# (Shift-3)
Show the popup
a-z Jump to the show starting with that letter

The Remote

# Show the popup
The "i" button Show the popup
Chan +/- Scroll up or down the helix view by 7 shows, scroll show by show or season by season when the popup is open
Play Button (On show or season selection screen)- Play the next unwatched episode (or play random if all episodes are watched)
1-9 Jump In List (press 1 once for a, twice for b, press 2 once for d, etc)

The Popup

(information below valid for myTV v1.2.+ only)

Pressing the "i" button or '#' on the remote whilst any Show is selected will bring up a 'More Info' type popup. This popup is divided into different sections, as outlined below.

Actions

This displays a set of buttons, which should be fairly self-explanatory. They are;

  • Play Next
  • Play Random
  • Display Seasons
  • Search Torrents
  • Flag Series/Season/Episode as watched
  • Flag Series/Season/Episode as not watched
  • Force metadata refresh (instantly check for new episodes and update the User Interface with new information from thetvdb.com)


All these are optional, so if there are no unwatched episodes in the current show, Play Next will be unavailable. Watched/Unwatched toggles depending on if none, all or some of the episodes are already flagged as watched.

Information

This gives you pretty much all the metadata for the Show in question. Including, but not limited to Network, which day/time it airs, if it still airs, actors, genres, overview etc.

Online

Interactive features. At the moment this gives you the option of marking the show as a favorite (or not) and rating it from 0-10. More features will be added at a later date. This section is only available/usable if you have registered over at TheTVDB.com and configured your account Identifier in myTV.

Edit

Basically gives you access to what you previously found under Settings/Database/Show - ie, an option to delete the series (from the databse, the file system or both), change Banners, names, fanart and season number.

This is work in progress - will be updated once the next release hits.

Map Remote Button to open myTV



Using ControlRemote you can intercept the commands from an MS remote (or universal remotes that use the MS receiver) and run a command depending on what is configured in the XML file.

For example, if you wanted to remap the Videos button you would find the <button id="MyVideos"></button> node in the xml

and add

<execute path="C:\WINDOWS\ehome\ehshell.exe" params="/entrypoint:{Appid}\{entrypoint}" oneinstance="false"/>


so to add/map a button to open myTV (I'm using the red teletext button in this example) it would read

<button id="Red">
<execute path="C:\WINDOWS\ehome\ehshell.exe" params="/entrypoint:{5F82B596-5C07-45bf-97C6-94B1A13730D4}\{FEB9A597-0998-431c-877A-ECDF00F07800}" oneinstance="false"/>
</button>


Now when you press the button, myTV should open.

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