Martin,

Thank you for confirming which remote you have for the Technisat.

I can confirm that I have made an XML file based on your remote which can be downloaded from

Keith,

It is now everything up and running! Thank you so much for your time and effort!! You are doing an amazing job around here :)

Thanks again,

Cheers Martin.

Especially the hard key assignment is really well done 😐

Hallo.

Keith, could you please explain the difference between having the hardkeys and digits etc. pre-assigned in the XML file, vs just program the keys in the Configuration Tool.

Rgds

Atle🙂

Atle,

There are two main reasons for pre-assigning hardkeys, digits and logos within the 3rd party XML file before using it in the B&O Configuration Tool

1. The user can just drag-n-drop the 3rd party product in their existing configuration and need make no further modifications. So its just a matter of adding it to your existing configuration and downloading the configuration to the Beo5/6. Very quick and will take less that one minute to add and download.
2. Many changes you may wish to make to the 3rd party product within the Configuration Tool either don't work or work incorrectly.

All Beo5/6 configurations and product information is stored in a large number of XML files. When you add any product 3rd party or B&O to your main configuration you are effectively adding one XML file to another using the initial structure setup when you first created your zones.

So, you are now going to ask "What is an XML file?"

In simple terms XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language and is designed to transport and store data. XML defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable and is in a flat text file which can be opened with any text editor.

Thanks Keith.

Ok, I can see the advantage of getting a file with pre-assigned hardkeys etc, but  how do you program this in to the files?

Do you just manually type everything in, or is it cut and past, or?

Regards

Atle.

Atle,

I do NOT cut-n-paste within the XML file as this would take a very long time.

Some 2 years ago I spent several months developing a Windows based program which took much of the hard work out of creating full 3rd party XML with everything needed for that product pre-assigned. Below is a screen shot to allow you to understand how I do it. Also, if you open one of my XML files with a text editor you will be able to see the XML structure used.

Keith,

Well I guessed it was something like that. I have looked at a few of your files, trying to figure out the structure/system .I have also made a few XML's of my own, but I had to do cut-n-paste. Then as you say, it takes a long time, and it is very easy to do mistakes, by leaving out a character or two.

I guess you do not want to share your software 😁

Thanks

Atle