IR / RF Remote Controls for Windows: Links to Explanations, Tutorials, and Guides

Yah I honestly gave up on getting the built in IR receiver to work. I did however get my original xbox IR receiver working perfectly with the XBOX connector to USB and the XBCDRC v0.29 for vista32 drivers/program.

It works great and the response time is excellent. I also had it set so my pc would just go into hybernate and awake fine right into XBMC. I could even wake the pc from hybernation with my XBOX IR receiver. Then after a couple days I was having trouble, I would put the computer into hybernation and it would automatically wakeup instantly. I mananged to fix that problem by setting my network adapter to not WAKE ON LAN. However now I cant get it to wake via remote anymore. Only mouse, keyboard or power button will wake it.

I tried changing power settings in device manager, editing the registry with the USBBIOS dwords, and using differnt USB port. And I cannot for the life of me get it to awake via the remote anymore. I guess its not a big deal, but its weird that it would just stop working when it was fine before.

built in ir would not work. all i could get it to do was pretend to launch eltv when i pushed power. that was it...
so im ordering an mce remote from newegg to see if the ir receiver from that will help...trying not to spend a fortune on the receiver, already have a harmony 550

Riderzzz Wrote:hej xbmc users,

i bought a sony vaio computer where the infrared-receiver is build in. Now i also got an remote control with the device. This remote control from sony (special for wmc) is called rm-mce20e.

Now i cant find any working tutorial for this one. Is it possible to get this one to work with xbmc?

Mike

I have this remote also and was wondering if you managed to get it to work?

It lets me navigate my way around XBMC but there is no button on the remote to go back a step - I have to all the way to the main menu

Also - is there a button on the remote when on the list of movies to bring up the options menu for a particular film (ie movie info, edit title etc)?

any chance we can use the Xbox 360 wireless controller (for windows with the PC game receiver) for this? Thanks

to answer both AceJosh and qrsy2k yes...install the newest beta of eventghost add the xbmc plugin and if it sees the ir commands all you have to do is drag drop to corresponding xbmc functions. just set it up using eHome IR and my harmony and was super easy. so get eventghost, play with that and you should be able to squeeze some functionality out of it.

dgodot Wrote:I've finally got most everything working on my Snapstream Firefly RF remote via LM Remote Keymap. The one major sticking point is I can't seem to get the context menus to show up. Anybody familiar with LM Remote and have this working?

I've set up a PressKey event for the Menu key, but get no response from XBMC when it is pressed. The menu button on my keyboard brings up the context menu exactly as expected.

EDIT: I found a solution in the keymap.xml file. Apparently the "c" key performs the same function as the "menu" key, so using that instead solved the problem.

you mind telling us how you got this to work thanks!

Will an USB to IrDA work as a reciever for a harmony 890 remote.

role2682 Wrote:Will an USB to IrDA work as a reciever for a harmony 890 remote.

As I know USB IrDA cannot recieve remote control signals

I just made a new tutorial for getting the XBox Original remote to work with the Windows build.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=45337

I know there are others, but this uses the recommended methods, the response is the same as on my Xbox, and it just generally works well.

Hope this helps.

Maybe I'll even make the top of the sticky.



-Wes

With eventghost I have absolutely no remote control at all. I selected the XBMC and MCE plugins and nothing. Besides with eventghost i'm unable to use my password entered from my remote in windows.

So I think the best option for me is to edit the keymap file. I do have default controls. I can arrow around and select stuff but that's it. No play, FF, pause, etc. I can't back out to the main menu.

So I was wondering if anyone has the config file setup for a MCE remote and they could just email me that file to use? That would be great.