2014-01-24, 00:03
I have read through the various guides but they don't seem to quite address my problems, and they are a little outdated considering the user interface has changed on myharmony.com. So here are my issues:
Hardware:
Harmony 700
IR6 receiver
HP Microserver N40L running Windows 7
Background:
For some reason my Harmony does not like the MCE keyboard or Microsoft Media Centre programmes from myharmony.com. Nothing works when I opt for these, so I have chosen to simply teach my remote all of the commands from the basic remote I bought.
Problems:
The basic remote doesn't have an info button, nor a tab button, so I can't activate info or go back to a playing video once I exit it. I have searched high and low to figure this one out but I can't. My volume buttons on the remote are also not functioning at all. They don't change XBMC nor Windows' volume.
My basic remote that I am using to teach my Harmony has one or two buttons that don't appear to do anything in XBMC. The problem is if I'd like to be able to customise these by teaching the Harmony and mapping other functions to it, I'd need to know what the functions are in the first place. I don't know how to work this out. I also don't know how to custom map anything at all.
What I'd like it to do:
I'd like to have an activity that switches on my TV and AV receiver (media centre is always switched on), but allows me to control XBMC with the custom learned functions, and let my amp control the volume. This seems pretty much impossible. I've tried all sorts of combinations of activities but I cannot figure it out. If this isn't possible, then I'd at least like to be able to control either XBMC or Windows' volume with the Harmony.
My HDMI CEC switches off my amp when the TV switches off which is fine, but it doesn't switch it on for some reason when the TV switches on. So I'd like to be able to add my amp and tv as devices in the activities when switching on, but only the TV when powering off. Seems myharmony doesn't allow this. Once a device is added in the activities, it doesn't allow you to remove it from either the switch on or switch off processes. It allows you to add new functions during this process, but the power functions are set in stone apparently. The problem here is that the amp is switching off from the TV CEC and then back on again from the signal from the remote. I don't want to switch off CEC as it is useful for other functions I use the amp and TV for. Any advice here would be great.
I'd also like to be able to map other functions to various unused keys. I just don't know how this works. I've read about Eventghost but the guides for it on the forum seem to be incredibly dated as well and reference plugins and so on that I think are no longer around.
If someone could guide me in the right direction here I would appreciate it...
Hardware:
Harmony 700
IR6 receiver
HP Microserver N40L running Windows 7
Background:
For some reason my Harmony does not like the MCE keyboard or Microsoft Media Centre programmes from myharmony.com. Nothing works when I opt for these, so I have chosen to simply teach my remote all of the commands from the basic remote I bought.
Problems:
The basic remote doesn't have an info button, nor a tab button, so I can't activate info or go back to a playing video once I exit it. I have searched high and low to figure this one out but I can't. My volume buttons on the remote are also not functioning at all. They don't change XBMC nor Windows' volume.
My basic remote that I am using to teach my Harmony has one or two buttons that don't appear to do anything in XBMC. The problem is if I'd like to be able to customise these by teaching the Harmony and mapping other functions to it, I'd need to know what the functions are in the first place. I don't know how to work this out. I also don't know how to custom map anything at all.
What I'd like it to do:
I'd like to have an activity that switches on my TV and AV receiver (media centre is always switched on), but allows me to control XBMC with the custom learned functions, and let my amp control the volume. This seems pretty much impossible. I've tried all sorts of combinations of activities but I cannot figure it out. If this isn't possible, then I'd at least like to be able to control either XBMC or Windows' volume with the Harmony.
My HDMI CEC switches off my amp when the TV switches off which is fine, but it doesn't switch it on for some reason when the TV switches on. So I'd like to be able to add my amp and tv as devices in the activities when switching on, but only the TV when powering off. Seems myharmony doesn't allow this. Once a device is added in the activities, it doesn't allow you to remove it from either the switch on or switch off processes. It allows you to add new functions during this process, but the power functions are set in stone apparently. The problem here is that the amp is switching off from the TV CEC and then back on again from the signal from the remote. I don't want to switch off CEC as it is useful for other functions I use the amp and TV for. Any advice here would be great.
I'd also like to be able to map other functions to various unused keys. I just don't know how this works. I've read about Eventghost but the guides for it on the forum seem to be incredibly dated as well and reference plugins and so on that I think are no longer around.
If someone could guide me in the right direction here I would appreciate it...
