channel up/down to initiate context (list) menu

[trekbot9]

Because of the lag between requesting a channel and actually getting a picture the traditional way of clicking up and down through channels just doesn't make much since.

However, a good method if already watching a channel is to press 'c' to bring up the context menu, which acts as a mini guide, and allows you to surf through the channels using up and down before actually selecting one to go to.

Using the keyboard this is simple but using a remote its complicated. Even somewhat if you have a remote but mapped to the 'c' key.

To me, the way it should work is that if you press the up or down key kodi would do some type of if then else logic to decide whether to open the context menu or act as up and down button.

if (up OR down == pressed AND context.menu == closed ) {
context.menu.open();
}

Is there any addon that does this or a way to achieve this without an addon?

[kens]

click on the little tv icon at the bottom of the screen. This brings up the smaller channels context menu./kens

[kens]

ps.. you could use the keymapper to map the up/down buttons of your remote, so when you are in full screen live tv mode, those buttons sens out a "C", which brings up the context menu mode, and your remote up/dn buttons revert back to original function, until you are in full screen again, and then they act as context again.
/kens