[awp0]

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

[awp0]

Looks like EventGhost might solve this. Reading up on how to use it.

[baijuxavior]

You can configure the mce remote to send key press instead of playback ir commands. Use a tool like mceremotemapper.exe or xbmccustomregis by elitegamer360.

[awp0]

Thanks! I ended up installing EventGhost and spending some time with it. Pretty awesome utility. I've fixed my issue with iTunes, and mapped a bunch of custom actions as well. I used keystrokes for most of it.

Thanks for the help.