HTPC Remotes

[Gnome]

Thanks

Then we at least have 1 confirmed (or not) product available locally at a confirmed price VS no confirmed products.

 

[techead]

hard to believe there arent other members on this forum with experiences re topic

 

[xrapidx]

I'm running more than one of these, but they all the original ms receivers so can't comment.

 

[techead]

info

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Remote_Control_Reviews#HP_MCE_Remote

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I have the Compro K300, its a good remote however the receiver isn't very sensitive - you have to make sure you point the remote quite directly towards the receiver. I have also dropped it about a million times on to the tiles and its still going, so it is rugged.

As for compatibility with OpenElec, I am going to find out as soon as my HP Microserver is delivered, was previously running xbmc on Ubuntu 10.10 and was using lirc and irxevent to pass some custom key presses to xbmc. It works out of the box on linux, but not all the buttons were working as expected, hence I went the lirc/irxevent route. With lirc/irxevent my remote is a lot more useful. I am a bit skeptical about it working 100% in openElec (I am sure it will work, but again don't know if all my buttons will be useful).

 

[techead]

good start..

http://tinypic.com/r/ri6g02/5

 

[techead]

cant get the remote and XBMC to talk... following this but Im not winning

 

[xrapidx]

cant get the remote and XBMC to talk... following this but Im not winning

Can't see the link... But there's a plug in you can download while in xbmc for the media center remote... Have you tried it? I used it to get mine working.

 

[techead]

I managed to get things working... "working" , I use that term loosely :erm:

There are so many different, conflicting, sources of info on the net I nearly ended up raging

I got it communicating and working in XBMC, but I dont have the mod installed... explain THAT!?

Once I have this all figured out, I plan to write a details guide to WTF is going on.

what a mission :wtf:

 

[Archer]

I can send you my keymap, then you must just program the Harmony to suit. It looks pretty close to that earlier link of yours.
Is the receiver picking up the keypresses correctly?

 

[techead]

I can send you my keymap, then you must just program the Harmony to suit. It looks pretty close to that earlier link of yours.
Is the receiver picking up the keypresses correctly?

archer, what remote are you using?

in the screen where you add a device, you need to enter the manufacturer and the model number. I've been entering Microsoft and then MCE Keyboard. I havent bother with proper mapping yet, as I first wanna sort out the LAG

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=108568

 

[Archer]

Using the 700, have not experienced any input lag with it
And yes, that is the correct device to add (MCE Keyboard). Dumb question - you've set XMBC to see remote presses as a keyboard right?

 

[techead]

Using the 700, have not experienced any input lag with it
And yes, that is the correct device to add (MCE Keyboard). Dumb question - you've set XMBC to see remote presses as a keyboard right?

i have not... care to point me to some more info on this lol

 

[Archer]

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=System_Settings

Basically if you set up the Harmony as a MCE keyboard, you need to enable this for XBMC to know whats potting. Its somewhere under settings in XBMC

 

[techead]

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=System_Settings

Basically if you set up the Harmony as a MCE keyboard, you need to enable this for XBMC to know whats potting. Its somewhere under settings in XBMC

and if this is activated, then I imagine that you have that mod installed in XBMC

what IR are you using?

 

[Archer]

and if this is activated, then I imagine that you have that mod installed in XBMC

what IR are you using?

Mod? Huh
Dunno what IR I have, think its a Dell/HP RC6 jobby

 

[techead]

Mod? Huh
Dunno what IR I have, think its a Dell/HP RC6 jobby

see below

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Using_a_Microsoft_remote_control_in_Windows

The simplest way to use an eHome remote with XBMC is to configure it to emulate a keyboard. The eHome driver can be configured by modifying the registry (details below). The details are rather involved, but there are various resources you can use that make it all very simple.
EliteGamer360 has written a registry config file and associated keyboard.xml and these are available from http://xbmccustomregis.sourceforge.net/.
jhsrennie has written an add-on to configure MS remotes. To install it run XBMC and go to Settings, Add-ons, Get Add-ons, XBMC.org Add-ons, Program Add-ons and select MCERemote. Once installed, you can open the add-on by selecting Programs from the home page then MCERemote. The addon includes an option to display the instructions.

 

[Archer]

No I didnt do anything half as exciting as that
Plug in USB IR receiver
Tweak the keymap.xml (the keyboard section)
Setup Harmony remote with the correct key presses
Enable "remote sends key presses"
Done

 

[techead]

No I didnt do anything half as exciting as that
Plug in USB IR receiver okay
Tweak the keymap.xml (the keyboard section) why???
Setup Harmony remote with the correct key presses but thats done in the above step???
Enable "remote sends key presses"
Done

i dont understand it all....

Can you please explain it to me

im so confused lol

maybe you can post your keymappings here maybe that will help. or maybe just use an example of the keypress "a" and what the process flow would be

 

[Archer]

You can leave the keymap as is I guess, I just found it needed some tweaks, for example

<volume_down>VolumeDown</volume_down>
<volume_up>VolumeUp</volume_up>

Thats the default, and I changed it to something else, like 'a' 'b'

<a>VolumeDown</a>
<b>VolumeUp</b>

Then you need to go into the Harmony remote software and tell it to send a 'a' when you press vol up, and 'b' when you press vol down which will then trigger the correct events in XBMC

Am I making any sense?

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master/system/keymaps/keyboard.xml