Enable/Disable all input by button press

    Nice, the “Enabling“ part is working now, the working script is the following:

    Bash
    #!/bin/sh
rm /storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/keyboard.xml
sleep 1
kodi-send -a "Action(reloadkeymaps)"
sleep 1
kodi-send -a "Notification(Kodi Info,Keyboard Enabled,7000,http://powerpi.de/wp-content/uploads/powerpi/powerpi_ambi_thumb_off.jpg)"
</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &

    Now i have two keyboard.xml files, one is numb and the other is full.

    The full is the exact copy of the /usr/share/kodi/system/keymaps/keyboard.xml plus the following entry:

    Code
          <!-- PVR -->
      <red>ActivateWindow(TVChannels)</red>
      <green>ActivateWindow(Videos)</green>
      <yellow>ActivateWindow(Music)</yellow>
      <blue>XBMC.RunScript(/storage/.kodi/userdata/turnoff_keyboard.sh)</blue>
      <!-- Multimedia keyboard keys -->
      <browser_back>Back</browser_back>

    The numb is the exact copy off vpeter file, only replacing my script:

    However, when i press the blue button nothing happens :(

    Here are the code of my two .sh scripts:

    TurnOn:

    Bash
    #!/bin/sh
cp /storage/.kodi/userdata/bkpmaps/fullkeyboard.xml /storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/keyboard.xml
sleep 1
kodi-send -a "Action(reloadkeymaps)"
sleep 1
kodi-send -a "Notification(Kodi Info,Keyboard Enabled,7000,http://powerpi.de/wp-content/uploads/powerpi/powerpi_ambi_thumb_off.jpg)"
</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &

    TurnOff:

    Bash
    #!/bin/sh
cp /storage/.kodi/userdata/bkpmaps/numbkeyboard.xml /storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/keyboard.xml
kodi-send -a "Action(reloadkeymaps)"
sleep 1
kodi-send -a "Notification(Kodi Info,Keyboard Disabled,7000,http://powerpi.de/wp-content/uploads/powerpi/powerpi_ambi_thumb_off.jpg)"
</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &

    I think im next to my final goal but still missing something ?(

    XBMC.RunScript can execute only python script I think. I think the best would be to rewrote above script to python. To copy file use How do I copy a file in Python? - Stack Overflow and for notification xbmc.executebuiltin('Notification.

    Maybe something like

    Python
    #!/usr/bin/python

import xbmc
from shutil import copyfile

copyfile('/storage/.kodi/userdata/bkpmaps/numbkeyboard.xml', '/storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/keyboard.xml')
xbmc.executebuiltin('Action(reloadkeymaps)')
xbmc.executebuiltin('Notification(Kodi Info, Keyboard Disabled, 7000, http://powerpi.de/wp-content/uploads/powerpi/powerpi_ambi_thumb_off.jpg)')

    Hi, when i run the script above i get:

    Code
    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "turnoff_keyboard.py", line 3, in <module>
    import xbmc
ImportError: No module named xbmc

    im running directly from bash with python scriptname.py since from remote it didint worked also.

    You can't run such script directly because module xbmc is only available when running from kodi.

    But you can run

    Code
    kodi-send --action="RunScript(/storage/..../TurnOn.py)"

    I made it work by setting it run from Left key, but is not working for blue key, i tested with the following map:

    I can confirm the color keys (red,blue,green,yellow) works when i have my full keyboard map. But is not working to call the script, if i press left, it works correctly.

    Enable debug in kodi, press blue key and check what you got in log.

    Try using this one for blue button:

    Code
    <m mod="ctrl">XBMC.RunScript(/storage/.kodi/userdata/turnon_keyboard.py)</m> -->    <!-- blue button, MCE My music -->

    All 4 buttons from https://kodi.wiki/view/list_of_mce_remote_controls

    Code
    <t mod="ctrl,shift">Notification(Key, Yellow, 3)</t> <!-- Yellow button -->
<m mod="ctrl">Notification(Key, Blue, 3)</m>         <!-- Blue button -->
<i mod="ctrl">Notification(Key, Green, 3)</i>        <!-- Green button -->
<e mod="ctrl">Notification(Key, Red, 3)</e>          <!-- Red button -->

    Thank you! For some reason, my blue key was mapped to <e> key. Now i finally can use my remote for both Kodi and my TV. Its Solved!

    Thank you so much for your help, i would never make it without it.

    Cheers