[Request] Better Playstaion BD Remote Control support

[Unshackle8078]

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  Details:

I paired a Playstation BD Remote Control (The Bluetooth remote you can buy separately - ie not a controller) in the desktop interface.

Delightedly, it works pretty decently out of the box. I'm trying to use it for Plex Media Player & Kodi and for basic usage, it does work.

TODO: I have not yet tried manually configuration button maps in BPM - this may do wonders, hopefully.

Works:

• Navigation (up, down, left, right, enter)
• Numbers work (0-9) - awesome for Plex pins
• Using the "Return" button to go back (cross, circle, square, triangle do not work in BPM)
• "Play" button works as Play/Pause

  Doesn't work:

  1. Basic buttons (cross, circle, square, triangle do not work in BPM - they do in Plex Media Player)
  2. Playstation Guide button (does nothing so far as I can tell - should act as the controller Guide)
  3. Most media buttons (All but "Play" and FF/RW)
  4. (Above are most notable but there are probably other buttons that could/should work that I haven't tested yet)
  5. Can't actually add it or see it in BPM Bluetooth menu. I had to do this in Gnome/desktop mode

[mdeguzis]

Ahead of this, you're best current bet is to either

a. Remap in BPM and see if that works for you b. Use remapping software like Antimicro, create profile that mimicks what you want it to do (keyboard actions, and loads this with the program.

If you are loading the program in desktop mode, a bash script will work fine. If not, /usr/bin/steamos-ession is where you can put this. I'd place the line after steamcompmgr. I believe once the compositor is loaded you can tack on software.

steamcompmgr &
antimicro --hidden --no-tray --profile /antimicro/dir/ps3-bd-remote.gamecontroller.amgp &

This probably isn't ideal though, since I'm guessing you don't want it like this all the time. In that case, a script and desktop file would work:

plex-media-player-launch.sh

antimicro --hidden --no-tray --profile /antimicro/dir/ps3-bd-remote.gamecontroller.amgp &
plex-media-player
killall antimicro