[WINDOWS] HOW-TO get XBMC for Windows to work with remote control via IR Server Suite

I woudl like to add the info from my last post to the first post..so anybody reading this for the first tiem sees it without going tot eh bottom...but i cant work out how...

Is it possible to edit posts? If so how? Am i perhaps prevented as I only registered recently?

Cam73 Wrote:My remote is this one: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mousea...px?pid=065

I bought mine from my wholesale supplier (in a box o 3) so that wont help you too much... but with the info on the MS page i suspect you can find one easy enough.

Thanks
I went and ordered a few remote one for each PC.

Keep an eye on it Cam and see if it continues to work...

This is the problem that I have been working on. The service seems to be stopped and not restart when resuming from hibernate. It also seems to randomly stop even if the PC is left on. I tried setting the service to restart on failure and noticed (about 8 hours later) that although the service was still running, it just didn't work until I stopped and restarted it.

If you have this happen, there is something you can try that I haven't been able to yet seeing how you aren't using VMC at all. I have to leave VMC as a backup for the wife. If something glitches in XBMC or with the remote while I'm at work she'll freak out if if there isn't a plan B.

The first part you already did with the disabling the windows actions in IRSS.
The second is to disable all of the services related to VMC. There is a good possibility that one of those conflicts with the input service for IRSS.

I'm trying to free a box up specifically for testing/troubleshooting but just haven't had the time.

Keep us (me) posted! Thanks and good luck!

P.S. I have contacted the developer with all of the issues that I and everyone else here has encountered. I haven't gotten an answer yet. From what I can tell this IS and known problem and he IS working on it but I'll update when I have some solid information.

Ive been running this for about 4 days now.

In that time i have not rebooted the PC at all.
I have not stopeed and restarted IR Suite.

When i finish watching XBMC i just leave it running.

I have foudn that XBMC starts behaving badly - movies not playing, library missing lots of entries, locking up... so about 2-3 times so far I have come to use XBMC and have had to CAD it and restart it...but i have not restarted IR Suite as yet.

Ill keep an eye on it though.

UPDATE: From the developer this morning...

and-81 Wrote:I'll post an update by the end of the week. It will fix the Vista suspend/resume bug and will have new imon config.

Thanks for your patience,

Cheers,
Aaron

TechLife Wrote:UPDATE: From the developer this morning...

Is this the developer of IR Suite?

Cam73 Wrote:Is this the developer of IR Suite?

Yes

Woohoo! One step closer to keyboardless HTPC.

TechLife Wrote:UPDATE: From the developer this morning...

This might be a basic question. Does all the set up work on XP machine?

librajak Wrote:This might be a basic question. Does all the set up work on XP machine?

Yes, all of this setup works great on XP. I have been testing XBMC on XP for a few days with this remote configuration and it seems to work great. Occasionally the remote buttons stop responding for a moment but they quickly return.