2013-02-16, 21:00
Hi guys,
After playing around with Android and ATV2 XBMC I decided to go all out and built a new Windows based system for it. This system runs XBMC and iTunes (and some other services like Subsonic, Crashplan, uTorrent, etc). So far I'm loving the XBMC experience on a "real" computer! Hats off to all of the developers, this has come a long way since I first tried it out on a first wen Xbox.
However there's one issue that I'm having trouble with: I run iTunes (minimized) because I like to send my music around the house to a few Airport Express devices. iTunes seems to be "stealing" certain IR commands. My IR remote is a MCE remote, with a USB IR receiver. So far the "stop" key seems to be the only offender that I've identified, but it's a pain because it doesn't work at all in XBMC if I have iTunes running at the same time (iTunes gets the signal instead and stops whatever it's playing). If I close out iTunes, the stop key starts working again in XBMC.
Any ideas? iTunes has a setting to turn off keyboard control and I've tried that but it didn't change anything.
Thanks,
Aaron
After playing around with Android and ATV2 XBMC I decided to go all out and built a new Windows based system for it. This system runs XBMC and iTunes (and some other services like Subsonic, Crashplan, uTorrent, etc). So far I'm loving the XBMC experience on a "real" computer! Hats off to all of the developers, this has come a long way since I first tried it out on a first wen Xbox.
However there's one issue that I'm having trouble with: I run iTunes (minimized) because I like to send my music around the house to a few Airport Express devices. iTunes seems to be "stealing" certain IR commands. My IR remote is a MCE remote, with a USB IR receiver. So far the "stop" key seems to be the only offender that I've identified, but it's a pain because it doesn't work at all in XBMC if I have iTunes running at the same time (iTunes gets the signal instead and stops whatever it's playing). If I close out iTunes, the stop key starts working again in XBMC.
Any ideas? iTunes has a setting to turn off keyboard control and I've tried that but it didn't change anything.
Thanks,
Aaron