LM Remote KeyMap

LM Remote KeyMap : Customize your remote LM Remote KeyMap come with a default profile for your Streamzap, Firefly, Firefly Mini or Media Center (MCE) PC remote and should work for many multimedia application. However it is recommended that you add a profile for each application you want to use with your Streamzap, Firefly, Firefly Mini or Media Center (MCE) PC remote. Before reviewing how to add and edit an application profile, you need to understand how profiles are used. Each time you press a button on your Streamzap, Firefly, Firefly Mini or Media Center (MCE) PC remote, LM Remote KeyMap will search among all the profiles to find a matching profile and use it : 

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First LM Remote KeyMap will retreive the current active window (usually this is the Top Most active window) and retreive its window title, window class name and executable name. Then LM Remote KeyMap search for a profile that match : the executable name or the title and class name or the class name or the title or use the default profile If a matching profile is found LM Remote KeyMap will use it for each key that is assigned an action in this profile. If a key is not specifically assigned inside the matching profile LM Remote KeyMap use the key action of the default profile.

Also you can force a profile, in this case LM Remote KeyMap will not search for a profile profile but use the one you choose. For instance, you can make the "Red" button of the Streamzap, Firefly, Firefly Mini or Media Center (MCE) PC Remote to launch your favorite PVR software and make LM Remote KeyMap switch to that PVR application profile. LM Remote KeyMap will use this profile until you switch LM Remote KeyMap to use the default profile (for instance when pressing on the "Power" button). This way whatever window is the active window, LM Remote KeyMap will use the same profile and can even bring automatically to foreground your PVR application if needed.

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Adding / Removing a profile profile To add a new remote profile, click on the "Add" button belwo the remote profiles list and either select "New blank profile" or "Profile from Online Database" When you select "Profile from Online Database", you can search for profiles submitted by other users. The search screen opens and if this is the first time you open it, you'll be prompted to authenticate using your donator username and password. Once you are successfully authenticated you can type a keyword in the form and click on the "Search" button. The profiles that do match your query will be listed in the list, select the profile you want to use and click the "Add this profile to my profiles" link. To remove an existing profile click on the "Remove" link. If you want to share this profile with other LM Remote KeyMap users click on the "Share" link. Then fill in the upload form : type the application name and version as well as a description of your profile. As all differents profiles for an application are stored in the online database (that is you can have more than one profile for Media Center if the key mapping are not the same) you should tell in the description what is specific about your profile (for instance explain in few words what the "Menu" button will do).









Editing a profile To edit a profile, select it in the application profiles list and click on the "Edit" link. This will open the profile editor.

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Use the "Profile "Profile Name Name"" field to give a name to your profile Use the "Window "Window Class" Class " field to specify the window class name this profile should match. When LM Remote KeyMap is searching the profile to use it will get the active window class name and will try to match it to one of your profiles (with or without the window title name). You can leave this field blank if you only want to search by window title name or executable name. Use the "Window "Window Title" Title" field to specify the window title this profile should match. When LM Remote KeyMap is searching the profile to use it will get the active window title and will try to match it to one of your profiles (with or without the window class name). You can leave this field blank if you only want to search by window class name or executable name. Use the " Application Executable Executable " filed to specify the exectuable this profile should match. When LM Remote KeyMap is searching the profile to use it will get the executable









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Streamzap, Firefly, Firefly Mini or Media Center (MCE) PC Remote. This will only work if you are actually forcing a profile (by using the "Change Profile" action for one of your remote button). Use the "Description "Description"" field to write down some notes about this profile to help you remember what this profile is supposed to do.

For instance, if you want to create a profile that will apply only to the Notepad application, type "Notepad" into the "Window Class" field. You can also put the application corresponding to the profile to edit into focus and press the "Ctrl + Shift + R" on your keyboard, this will copy title, class name, exectuable name into LM Remote KeyMap. Tip: You don't have to keep the three fields Executable, Windows Title, Window Class Name to target the right application. Only one of them is enough. If you don't know what to do, keep only the Application Executable field. Click on the "Next >" button to change the remote buttons behavior, or click on the "Ok" button to save your changes without editing the remote buttons.

Buttons & Actions Use the remote picture for assigning actions to each of your you r remote buttons. An action is what LM Remote KeyMap is supposed to do when you press a button on your remote. You can have more than one actions per key. You don't have to assign each button an action, in this case when a button doesn't have any action LM Remote KeyMap will use the action in the default profile. For each button and in each profile you can type a (short) help string. This help h elp string can be displayed on the OSD when you enter the help mode by using the " Help Mode" Mode" action. To add an action to a remote button, click on the remote button in the picture (or select it in the drop down list, or press the button on your real remote) then click on the green " Add " Add an Action" Action" button in the actions list.









To remove an action, click on the red remove button located on the left of each action. To change the settings of an action click on the tool button located on the right of each action. To move up / down an action click on the arrow buttons located on the right of each movable action. When you add an action you are presented whit a dialog containing all possible actions to add, you can choose among these actions :  

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Keystroke : this action will send keys to the active application. Send Message : this action will send message (like : close / minimize etc...) to the active window or a window you searched for with the "FindWindow" action Find Window : this action will search a window by its window class name and or window title (just like the profile), the window found will be used by the "Send Message" / "Application Command" and "Foreground" actions instead ins tead of the active window. Change Volume : this action will let you change the master volume, either up or down (and you choose the increment) or absolutely. So you can say "up by 5%" or "down by 10%" or "set it to 50%". Application Command : this action will send a AppCommand message to the active window (or the window found using FindWindow). AppCommand message are messages used by multimedia keyboards or MCE remote like "Play", "Pause", "Mute" etc... Launch Application : this action will run the application of your choice Pause : this action let you pause the action chain. One button can have more that one action, each action are fired the one after the other, with this action you can make a pause (for instance to wait for an application before firing the next action) Display Menu : this action is for creating a menu. This menu will be displayed on top of any other window and you'll be able to navigate it by using the arrow buttons on the remote. When you select one entry in the menu it will then fire its associated actions. Change Profile : this action will force LM Remote KeyMap to use a profile until you use this action again to revert to the default profile. This is useful if you have an application that cannot be found by window class name and / or window title : you just program a button to launch this application and switch s witch to the corresponding profile and in this









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Foreground : this action is for bringing up a window to the foreground either the active one or the window found by the FindWindow action. MultiPress : this action is for telling LM Remote KeyMap to not fire the following actions but instead fire one of them depending on the number of times your are pressing the corresponding button. This is useful for numbers button : press one time on "2" to send "2", two time to send "A" etc... Volume Mute : this action is for muting the master volume. Play Sound : this action is for playing a wave file. Shutdown : this action is for shutdown / suspend / hibernate or reboot your computer Mouse : this action is for simulate s imulate mouse events (go up, down, left click etc...) Mouse Mode : this action is for entering the default "Mouse mode". In this mode you'll be able to mouve your mouse with the arrow buttons and left click with the "Ok" button, right click with the "Menu" button. To quit the mouse mode click on the "Exit button". This feature is four our donators only Press Key : this action is for simulating a key press (and only one key) Wake On Lan : this action is for waking up a computer from Hibernate or Power Off (by broadcasting a magic packet on your LAN) Application Activate Activate : this is basically the same action as "Foreground Foreground"" but should always work. Key Down or Down or Key Up : this action is for simulating a key down or a key up (for one key), you can use more than one KeyUp or KeyDown action to create keyboard shortcuts that doesn't work with the "Keystroke" action (don't forget to use a KeyUp for each KeyDown !) Navigation Mode : this put the remote into navigation mode useful for switching throuhg windows of form fields (see below). This feature is four our donators only Move Window : use this action to move the current active window or the one found foun d by the FindWindow action Blast : use this action to send an IR signal to an external IR device Eject CD : this action allow you to open / close a CD tray. If :: this action allow you to create conditionnal branchs If Stop : this action allow you to stop execution the remaining actions in the action chain Help Mode : this action put the remote into help mode. When active each button press will display the help text associated with the button (for the current application profile) Screen Saver : this action allows you to turn on / turn off your screen saver, as well as disabling / enabling the screen saver. Note : LM RKM cannot turn off your screen saver if the screen saver is locking the desktop (LM RKM is disabled if the desktop is locked) Monitor On / Off : Off : this action allows you to turn on / turn off you monitor. Close Application : this action let you close a running application (based on its executable path) Maximize : this action let you maximize a window (either the current one or one found by "Find Window") Minimize : this action let you minimize a window (either the current one or one found by "Find Window")











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Beep : an action to make your PC speaker beep (on 32 bits OS only) Script : use the C# scripting engine to extend LM Remote KeyMap Blast Raw : blast any IR codes to your IR devices not only the ones you alread learned Screenshot : take a screenshot of your desktop or of a running application Set Variable : define a global variable Increment Variable : add / remove a numeric value from a numeric global variable

Once you have selected the action click on the "Ok" button to set up the action if needed, if no configuration is needed, you'll return to the actions list for the remote button currently selected.

Available Actions This are all the actions you can use with LM Remote KeyMap. Application Activate This action will put a window found by the "Find " Find Window" Window" action into the foreground. Application Command Action Action The "Application Command" action simulate the keypress of a multimedia keyboard (or remote). You just choose the multimedia command to send. Note: the default profile already already use the appropriate command for your Streamzap, Firefly, Firefly Mini or Media Center (MCE) PC Remote, so you should not have to use it (Also some multimedia program don't always support such command). The supported commands are : 

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BrowserBackward : obvioulsy should make your browser go back. But it may also works in other program with a different puprose (still it should go back somehow) BrowserForward : the same as backward, but this time go forward. MediaPlay : supposed to make the application play something MediaPlayPause : a two state command, press once it plays, press again it pauses MediaPause : supposed to pause whatever is playing MediaStop : supposed to stop playback (or something else)









Beep Action This action will make your PC speake beep. This only works on 32 bits OS (this is a Windows issue). You can select the tone and duration for the beep. Blast Action This action blast the IR code for the IR device and button selected through your IR blaster. You can use more than one "Blast" action for f or a remote button and separate each of them by a "Pause Pause"" action. Note: you may have to add a "Pause" action before using the "Blast" action to avoid IR collisions: IR collision occurs when a device is busy discarding your PC remote IR code and cannot process the blasted IR code by the "Blast" action (the number of milliseconds to use for resolving collisions issues is dependent on your IR device, try a pause value of 30 ms up to 300 ms) Blast Raw Action The "Blast Raw Action" allows you to send IR codes for a LM Remote KeyMap IR devices. With this action you don't have to learn the IR codes, codes , instead you can directly type the IR code into the configuration dialog or compute the IR code yourself and an d send it through a LM Remote KeyMap C# script. script.

Change Profile Action The "Change Profile" action will force LM Remote KeyMap into the profile you choose in the "Profile" drop down list. When a profile is forced LM Remote KeyMap does not try to search for a profile matching the active window. Instead it will continue to use the actions assigned to the buttons for this profile until you use again the "Change Profile" action to change to the default profile.









Change Volume Action The "Change Volume" action will change the master volume of your PC and display a volume volu me OSD. You can choose among three options by using the radio buttons : 

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Set : this set the volume to an absolute value. Just type the value in the "Volume Value" field. The value you type must be an integer between 0 and 100. If you choose 50, the volume will be set to 50%. This is useful for setting the volume to an acceptable level (not awaking neighborood level ;)) prior to launch your favorite music application (and of course put the "Change Volume" action BEFORE the "Launch Application" action) Increment : this increment the volume by the value you type in the "Volume Value" field. For instance if you choose "5", the volume will be increased by 5 points (if it was at 40%, it will be at 45%) so this is a linear volume change only Decrement : the same as decrement instead it lower the volume.

Close Application Action This action can close a running application. To select the application to close, type the executable name of the application, or click on the "Browse" button to locate the executable. LM Remote KeyMap will then search for the first process corresponding to the executable and close it if it can. If you don't want to close an application by its executable name, but instead close the application appli cation currently in focus, use either a Keystroke application with Alt + F4 (%{F4}) or a Send Message action with 16 as the message.

Display Menu Action This action will display a menu when you press a button on your Streamzap PC Remote. To enable this feature you must be a donator and have installed the full version of LM Remote









choose a skin and to select the size and position of the menu). Also, all actions after the menu will not be executed at all. When the menu is displayed it will not be closed until you close it by choosing one of its entry or by pressing the "Exit" button on your Streamzap, Firefly, Firefly Mini or Media Center (MCE) PC Remote or by pressing on the same key that first launched the menu (in this case no action will be take). Navigate in the menu by using the Right / Left Lef t / Up / Down key on your Streamzap PC remote and click on the "Ok" button on your Streamzap, Firefly, Firefly Fir efly Mini or Media Center (MCE) PC Remote when you have selected the right menu entry to execute. At this point LM Remote KeyMap will execute all actions under this menu entry. Eject CD Action This action allows you to open or close the CD door for the drive of you choice. Select the drive to use and wether the door should be opened or closed. Find Window Action The "Find Window" action will search for a window matching the window class name and/or window title you typed in the "Window Class" field, "Window Title" field or "Executable" field. You can leave either the "Window Class", "Window Title" or "Executable" field blank, so as to s earch only the window by its title or its class name. The resulting window will be used by the " Send Message" Message", " Application Application Command" Command" and "Foreground Foreground"" actions. The resulting window can only be used for the actions under the same button. So if you are using "Find Window" for the "1" button, the window found will only be availabe for this button and not the "2" button for instance. Find Child Window The "Find Child Window" work like the "Find Window" Window" action, but will only search for child windows of the current focused window (or a previously "Find Window" window)









To exit the help mode press on the same button you used to enter the help mode. HTTP Get Action With this action you can request a Web page (or Xml document) through HTTP(S). In the configuration dialog you can type the URL for the page you want to request, as well as the username and password to use for the request. Within the configuration dialog you can use u se the "Test" button to check that LM Remote KeyMap is able to download the requested content. Use the "Wait for result before executing other actions" to wait for the document to be downloaded before executing the other actions that may follow the HTTP Get action. The downloaded content can be tested with the "If " action. You can also store the HTML (or Text) content downloaded into the global variable of your choice (the variable will be typed as text) Increment Variable Action With this action you can add or remove a value from a numeric global variable. v ariable. The variable should have been created with the "Set Variable" action.

If Action This action allows you to execute actions if a condition is verified or not. When you add a "If" action, you have to choose the condition to evaluate. evalua te. The available conditions are:  

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that one "Key Down" and "Key Up" actions to simulate keyboard shortcuts that doesn't work with the "Keystroke" action (for instance : Ctrl + Alt + M). You just have to choose the right virtual key code in the drop down list. Also don't forget to use a "Key Up" action for each "Key Down" you use. Keystroke action The Keystroke action just send keys to the active window. Just type the keys you want to send in the "Keystroke" field. Each key is represented by one or more characters. To specify a single keyboard character, use the character itself. For example, to represent the letter A, pass in the string "A" in the field. To represent more than one character, append each additional cha racter to the one preceding it. To represent the letters A, B, and C, specify the parameter as "ABC". The plus sign (+), caret (^), percent sign (%), tilde (~), and parentheses () have special meanings. To specify one of these characters, enclose it within braces ({}). For example, to specify the plus sign, use "{+}". To specify brace characters, use "{{}" and "{}}". Brackets ([ ]) have no special meaning, but you must enclose them in braces. To specify characters that aren't displayed when you press a key, such as ENTER or TAB, and keys that represent actions rather than characters, use the codes in the following table. Key codes Key

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Launch Application Action This action will launch the program of your choice. Just type the path to your application in the "Application" field or click on the "Browse" button to browse your disk to find the application. You can also type the command line arguments if any in the "Arguments" field. You can also choose the window type you want for the launched application : Normal, Minimized, Maximized or Hidden. You can also check options to : 

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make sure the application will get focus when launched (may not work in all case see tips below) wait for the application main window to be displayed before executing other actions (the actions that follow the "Launch Application" action for the same button) wait for the application to exit before executing other actions launch the application from the LM RKM Blaster Service (the application will not be visible on your desktop and will run under the account used by LM RKM Blaster Service : Local System by default) Note: if an application doesn't get focus when launched, make sure s ure that you selected the option "Ensure application got focus when started". If this still doesn't work you may have to select the "Wait for the application main window..." and use a "Pause Pause"" action, then a "Mouse Mouse"" action to click on the window to be sure that the application will get focus (you can click the mouse anywhere as you'll usually do this for full screen applications)









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(pixels)" field (actually it's not pixels it's more a relative delta function of your mouse sensitivity). Left Click / Right Click / Middle Click : perform a left, right or middle mouse button click (If you PC remote is fast enough you can even make double clicks).

Mouse Mode Action This action will enter the PC Remote mouse mode. This mouse mode is specifically designed to reduce button clicks on the PC remote to move the mouse pointer. When you press on the remote button linked to this action, LM Remote KeyMap enter mouse mode and will quickly display "Mouse On" on its Osd. All buttons on the remote are thus disabled except :   

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Press on the arrow keys button to make the mouse pointer move. The more your press on an arrow button, the faster the mouse pointer will move. The mouse pointer only go straight up / down / left / right. It will never use diagonals. If the mouse pointer is going to the right, clicking on the left button will stop the mouse pointer, however clicking on the down button it will instantly goes down (at the lowest speed).









the OSD displays "2", then quickly press again"2" on your remote, the OSD will change to "key a" and will vanish if you do not press any key on the remote and the key "a" will be send to your application. Note: all actions after a "MultiPress" actions are supposed to be part of the "MultiPress" chain. So if the number of key names you type in the "Key Names" fields of the "MultiPress" action doesn't match the number of actions following the "MultiPress" action the extraneous actions will be skipped. Navigation Mode Action The "Navigation Mode" action put your remote into a navigation mode (just like "Mouse Mode"). In this mode only the following buttons are working : 

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Play button : if you press this button you'll enter the "Alt+Tab" feature of Windows. Press Play button the "Play" button multiple times and when you finally selected the window you want to bring on top, press the "Ok" button on your remote Ok button button : it will either select the window to bring on top if you are in a "Alt+Tab" sequence or simulate the "Return" key Up / Up / Down Down / / Left Left / / Right Right : : simulate up / down / left / right keys of your keyboard Skip Forward and Forward and Skip Backward buttons Backward buttons : simulate "Tab" and "Shift Tab" Fast Forward and Forward and Rewind buttons : buttons : simulate "Ctrl Tab" and "Shift Ctrl Tab" Menu button Menu button : display the windows start menu

To exit the navigation mode press on the "Exit" button on your remote or the button you u sed to









Press Key Action The "Press Key" action simulate a key press on your keyboard (one key pressed). This action is mainly intended for the Firefly Mini / MCE Remote to reduce the side effects of setting up a global keyboard hook. To simulate a key press, just choose the virtual key code in the drop down list. Press Key To Action With this action you should be able to send a single keystroke to a non focused window. Select the window to send the keystroke to by using the " Find Window" Window" or "Find Child Window" Window" action before using the "Press Key To" action. Note: this action may not work at all. Usually Us ually for keyboard input to work correctly a window need to be focused, this is the way keyboard input works in Windows. Screen Saver Action The "Screen Saver" action allows you to turn on or turn off your screen saver. You can also disable (or enable) your screen saver: when you screen saver is disabled it will not launch when your computer is idle for the predefined amount of idle time; this can be useful if some of your application don't disable themselves the screen saver. Screenshot Action This action will take a screenshot of your you r current desktop or of the focused windows (or a window











Some Windows messages : WM_CLOSE = 16 / WM_KEYDOWN = 256 / WM_KEYUP = 257 / WM_CHAR = 258. For instance if you want to send a message for closing an application, just use the WM_CLOSE message, so type "16" in the "Message" field, and 0 in both wParam and lParam field. Set Variable Action With the "Set Variable" action you can create a global variable. The global variable will be accessible through all LM Remote KeyMap action chains (wether the action chain is executed for a button press or an event) Global variables can be used with the "If " action (to test for a basic condition), the "Show OSD" OSD" action (to display the content of a variable), the "Script Script"" action (for advanced use), the "Increment Variable" Variable" action (to add / remove value from numeric variables)









button again. You can do this by adding a "If " If " action for the "Green" button in the default profile with a "Is Running" condition : when the condition con dition is false, you use the "Launch Application" action; if the condition is true, you use a "Find Window" Window" action to find the front end window, then a " Application Application Activate" Activate" action to put the front end window into focus, then a "Switch Profile" action to switch the profile back to the front end, so as the action usually mapped to the "Green" button for the front end will be executed. Volume Mute Action Action This action will mute or unmute your PC master volume and display the volume OSD.

Wake On Lan Action This action will wake up a computer (another computer that the one that will fire this action) from Hibernation or Power Off (obviously you need a Wake On Lan (WOL) compliant network card and

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