Keyboard shortcuts for beomaster 5 playback control? (beosound5)

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Hi all, I have just connected my beomaster 5 box into my beoplay v1 using a DVI > HDMI lead and a SPDIF coax cable for the digital sound. Sounds superb! A big improvement over the NL/ML converter. Now the Beomaster 5 is connected to the v1 TV, what I'd like to achieve is control of playback on the v1's remote via the V1's PUC IR blaster. I'm hoping that the beomaster 5 can react to USB keyboard commands for play/pause next/prev, but by trial and error I can't find anything obvious that works. All i can do is up/down and enter for navigating the menus, and R for presenting the slide-in menu. Does anyone know if there are specific playback controls via a keyboard? If so I can plug in a FLIRC device to map regular IR signals received to the relevant keyboard command presses. Many thanks.

Location: Eastbourne, UK

Interesting setup!  Does this old thread help?

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