How to Power ON/OFF your HTPC using a Remote?

blackbango Wrote:Hi eskro, first time post so a bit of a newbie but would this do.http://www.pulse-eight.com/store/product...apter.aspx

would do!?

eskro Wrote:would do!?

Sorry I ment would this not allow me to turn my htpc off as well. The website says that it will control both your tv and htpc through xbmc.

that should be a question to ask them, i dunno sorry

voip-ninja Wrote:I just heard back from ASRock support in Chino, California. They will provide the USB CIR receiver for only $8 which includes shipping. Rather glad now that I did not spring for an extra $50 for a higher end motherboard that included it.

I'm not sure if it will work with other, non ASRock motherboards but $8 is a heckuva lot cheaper than anywhere else for this thing.

did they give you the price for their mce remote too? did they say where can you order it from? i emailed the same place as you, but they haven't reply.

So please post the ordering info when you get it for the $8 part

so when you get the IR header (receiver eye).

How are you going to get the power on and power off commands into the harmony? or is that already part of the MCE profile?

Very exciting

Free Solution : Use your Android phone if your computer is connected to a WLAN router

- Get XBMC remote, e.g. https://market.android.com/details?id=or...rch_result
- Get a wake on LAN app, e.g. https://market.android.com/search?q=wake...o=1&c=apps

Voila your mobile phone functions as remote and you can power on your computer with it

Edit : As it seems XBMC remote already supports wol by itself.

bluray Wrote:did they give you the price for their mce remote too? did they say where can you order it from? i emailed the same place as you, but they haven't reply.

They did not offer to sell me the Receiver + Remote, they directed me to SuperBiiz for those components, but I'm not sure that SuperBiiz sells them.

It took them about 1-2 days to reply to my support request.

They also warned me that they only support their IR receiver with their own remote and driver and that I was on my own if it did not work with my Harmony.

rufrothy Wrote:So please post the ordering info when you get it for the $8 part

so when you get the IR header (receiver eye).

How are you going to get the power on and power off commands into the harmony? or is that already part of the MCE profile?

Very exciting

I imagine that the remote profile is identical to the ASRock Vision 3D which should be in the Harmony database.

devport Wrote:Free Solution : Use your Android phone if your computer is connected to a WLAN router

- Get XBMC remote, e.g. https://market.android.com/details?id=or...rch_result
- Get a wake on LAN app, e.g. https://market.android.com/search?q=wake...o=1&c=apps

Voila your mobile phone functions as remote and you can power on your computer with it

Edit : As it seems XBMC remote already supports wol by itself.

how is that going to turn on/off htpc without cir? why would i want my kids to destroy my $550 phone?

bluray Wrote:how is that going to turn on/off htpc without cir? why would i want my kids to destroy my $550 phone?

not everyone has kids! But indeed, good point here. Cheap and good remote is the way to go with kids!