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#1
ok guys, so I have a tivo slide pro remote which I have programmed to control XBMC via eventghost. This remote is great and I love it. The one thing that is killing me is the guide button is hard coded to start WMC in EPG view even if XBMC is running in the foreground. Does anyone know of a command line or script way of killing the WMC process from starting so I can use that button to have XBMC load up the EPG view?
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#2
Hmm...my MCE remote guide button brings up the EPG in XBMC, doesn't launch WMC. I have Event Ghost installed as well and the MCE remote add on. Maybe disable the MCE plugin within Event Ghost?
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#3
So eventghost is hard coded to always start wmc when you press guide? I didn't think it worked like that. I don't know if these will help but its stuff I have filed away:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=46595
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=123466
Windows Media Center PVR addon (pvr.wmc) and server backend (ServerWMC)
http://bit.ly/serverwmc
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#4
(2014-04-10, 17:04)jdlive Wrote: Hmm...my MCE remote guide button brings up the EPG in XBMC, doesn't launch WMC. I have Event Ghost installed as well and the MCE remote add on. Maybe disable the MCE plugin within Event Ghost?

Yea I think I'm going to try and enable the MCE remote plugin in eventghost and see if that'll help me out

(2014-04-10, 17:07)krustyreturns Wrote: So eventghost is hard coded to always start wmc when you press guide? I didn't think it worked like that. I don't know if these will help but its stuff I have filed away:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=46595
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=123466

No, the remote is automatically recognized by windows as having some MCE commands like the guide button launches WMC EPG out of the box without eventghost. Same goes for the Search button. I want to disable this functionality so that I can fully program the remote.

Thanks for the links. I'll try them out and see if it resolves my problems. I might end up writing a plugin in for eventghost to make programming this remote easier.
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#5
Alright so an update. I finally got the guide button to work how I wanted. I could not use any MCE remote plugins in eventghost as it seems like my remote does not work with thats service. So instead I wrote two macros, one that tells XBMC to bring up the EPG when the guide button is pressed and the other that detects the ehshell.exe (WMC) process is starting and then runs this comment C:\Windows\System32\taskkill.exe /F /IM ehshell.exe /T

It actually works very well but still has me worried that my computer is going to act up one day and still launch WMC fully.

I still can't figure out the search button on the keyboard part of the remote. I think its mapped to a special keyboard button in windows. I wasn't able to remap it in KeyTweak. O well, atleast I solved the guide button problem as I will be using that way more often than the search button.

I still still feel this is the best HTPC remote I've ever used.
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#6
Thanks for following up. I have also thought about making an app that kills wmc when xbmc starts and vice versa, since we run both at my house. They can both run at the same time of course but its does get annoying when they fight to be in front of each other. The remote does look cool.
Windows Media Center PVR addon (pvr.wmc) and server backend (ServerWMC)
http://bit.ly/serverwmc
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#7
Your welcome, I too run both. I'll only run WMC for Live TV if XBMC is acting up, but I try to live in XBMC like its an appliance. The new problem I'm facing is I've configured eventghost to display an onscreen menu when I press the input button. This menu pops up and allows me to select if I want to launch/find-window (depends on application state) wither XBMC or WMC. This works great when I'm in XBMC or on the desktop but if I have WMC it doesn't allow the onscreen menu to be the focused window. I have to minimize WMC to see this menu.
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#8
Have you tried LM Remote KeyMap?

http://www.lmgestion.net/@en-us/4/22/60/78/article.asp

This app has a profile for the slide. Its works well. It should fix your guide button issue.
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#9
Yes. It did not work. Its profile is for the TiVo slide which was a Bluetooth remote. I have the TiVo slide pro which is an rf remote with different protocols and HID commands
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#10
When I configured my test box to run XBMC rather than WMC I simply ran the very basic install here:

http://xbmccustomregis.sourceforge.net/remote_auto.html

This then let me use my MCE remote to launch XBMC on pressing greenbutton and guide etc all worked and mapped through to XBMC, if your remote is recognized as the same RC6 remote it should work Smile
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#11
yea I tried those based on crusty's suggestions. Didn't work. I finally figured out the search button. Based on the answer provided to me here I had to disbale the Human Interface Device Access service. This allowed me to gain full control over the search button but sadly not over any other button. So now I have eventghost set up to send XBMC a json command to launch the Global Search addon when ever I press the search key. At this point I have my remote where I want it.
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#12
For all those who use the Tivo Slide Pro on windows BirdAPI has created a EvenGhost plugin that works with it. I haven't tried it out yet but will tonight when I get home from work. Hopefully it allows me to remove all the hacks (described above) I created in Eventghost to get certain buttons working correctly.
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