Monday, 3 November 2014

XBMC Remote & Add Host Problems

I've recently revived my RaspBMC installation and on of the things I wanted to do was setup my HTC One X to act as remote...simple or so I thought.

Unfortunately, after installing the app I was prompted that no hosts were configured and I'd need to add them via the the menu button. The HTC One X has no physical buttons to act as a menu button and various suggestions around the internet did not help. FYI, some Samsung Galaxy users are able to long press the app switcher key to bring up the menu.
Others said that pressing and holding the home button should do the trick, unfortunately for me this kept bringing up Google Now. Disabling this in the settings menu did not resolve this.

In the end, I think I found a solution that should work for any* android phone. All you need to do, is go to: Settings > Buttons > Home Button. Then set either long press action or double tap action to be open/close menu.

Simple in the end.




* I have only tested it on my HTC One X.

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