piCorePlayer jivelite IR Consecutive Key Press mode in now playing screen

[ajuga123]

With Jivelite you can go to a certain position within a music file by touching the progress bar on the touchscreen on the 'now playing' screen.

Unfortunately, at this time this is not possible when using a remote control because there is not a jive-action to achieve this (see jivekeys file on github)

One way to achieve this would be if there is a Jive Action to go into 'positioning mode' so that the next (1-9) digit-key press is interpreted as a percentage (10% - 90&). After the digit-key press or after a timeout period of a few seconds jivelite would leave this mode. To go even further there could also be modes like 'go relative forward' or 'go relative backward' in which the digit-keypress is a percentage between 1% and 9%

Such a feature would be especially useful when playing podcasts

[ralphy]

With Jivelite you can go to a certain position within a music file by touching the progress bar on the touchscreen on the 'now playing' screen.

Unfortunately, at this time this is not possible when using a remote control because there is not a jive-action to achieve this (see jivekeys file on github)

One way to achieve this would be if there is a Jive Action to go into 'positioning mode' so that the next (1-9) digit-key press is interpreted as a percentage (10% - 90&). After the digit-key press or after a timeout period of a few seconds jivelite would leave this mode. To go even further there could also be modes like 'go relative forward' or 'go relative backward' in which the digit-keypress is a percentage between 1% and 9%

Such a feature would be especially useful when playing podcasts

You can map key symbols KEY_E (scanner_rew) and KEY_R (scanner_fwd) which pops up a progress bar that you can scroll back and forward within the track using the remote keys with these mappings.

[ajuga123]

You can map key symbols KEY_E (scanner_rew) and KEY_R (scanner_fwd) which pops up a progress bar that you can scroll back and forward within the track using the remote keys with these mappings.

It works. Thanks!

btw (being a spoiled brat): Would it be possible to make KEY_Z (jump_rew) and KEY_B (jump_fwd) context-sensitive, so they can also be used for scrolling within the track, when the pop-up progress bar is visible. This way one could use one spare key to map to KEY_R or KEY_E (just to pop up the progress bar) and the fwd and rew keys (or left or right key for that matter) to control the progress bar.

[ralphy]

It works. Thanks!

btw (being a spoiled brat): Would it be possible to make KEY_Z (jump_rew) and KEY_B (jump_fwd) context-sensitive, so they can also be used for scrolling within the track, when the pop-up progress bar is visible. This way one could use one spare key to map to KEY_R or KEY_E (just to pop up the progress bar) and the fwd and rew keys (or left or right key for that matter) to control the progress bar.

Not without a lot of changes to jivelite.

Much easier to use a remote with lots of buttons to map.

[ajuga123]

Not without a lot of changes to jivelite.

Much easier to use a remote with lots of buttons to map.

Thanks for your reply. I didn't realize is would require a lot of changes.