[UncleDirtNap]

BLKMGK, or anyone else you cares to offer a suggestion, can you offer any hints, tips or tricks on how to get my MCE remote to work? I was under the impression that support was already included in the latest XBMC but mine doesn't work at all.

[UncleDirtNap]

Actually I think I figured the remote question out myself

[icekiller]

please share..

[BLKMGK]

Honestly the MCE USB I've got was pretty PnP. Set the correct config in the Lirc setup when it's run and it "just worked" with XBMC. Easiest setup ever! When I upgraded to 8.04 it continued to function much to my relief. ZipZoomFly has them dirt cheap too

BTW Snappz I sent you an email requesting you send to me so I can forward you my profile for meGUI.

[gryzor]

Honestly the MCE USB I've got was pretty PnP. Set the correct config in the Lirc setup when it's run and it "just worked" with XBMC. Easiest setup ever!

I had the same experience, very easy and very straightforward.

[UncleDirtNap]

Well I thought I had this figured out but only partially. I installed lirc but my model of remote didn't show up in the list. I found a post that said run lirc then "do irw" which I have no idea what that means and I found a suggestion on the site I purchased the remote from that I would need to use the lirc_mceusb2 driver to get it to work with linux, but my noobishness keeps me from figuring out how to install a driver in linux that's not showing up in the Hardware Driver tool.

I'm still looking but if anyone wants to toss out a suggestions I wouldn't complain :-)

[BLKMGK]

Reinstall Lirc, that will take you through the setup again. I seem to recall it is the "Microsoft" MCE remote you want to look for - it's in the list but a PITA to find as I recall.

Oh "do irw" means to bring up a console window and type "irw" to run that program

[UncleDirtNap]

I'll re-run the lirc install and look for the Microsoft remote as you suggest.

As for the irw, bringing up a terminal and running as you describe was my first guess but when I did that I got the message "connect: No such file or directory found" which I took to mean there was more to the command string that needed to be entered. Since "do irw" was all that was suggested I didn't know where to go from there.

[UncleDirtNap]

Ah ha, how about Windows Media Center Remotes - old and new versions. I'll give that a try tonight and report back.

Thanks again!

[UncleDirtNap]

Woo -hoo, remote now works, more or less. Some of the important buttons don't work with the default setting, but if I'm reading correctly there's a way to remap them.

One more step and I've got a functioning XBMC HTPC ... gotta figure out how to run XBMC, in full screen, on boot up.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

[BLKMGK]

Heh, this could turn into a FAQ xbmc.bin -q