Windows HOW-TO use Logitech Harmony Universal Remote Control without EventGhost

This is great news, thanks for sharing. Will try later today

mykaln Wrote:What IR receiver are you using?

Im using the antec veris multimedia station ez and it works mostly fine. The only issue i have is when xbmc tweaks out thinking im pressing a directional button a million times. This may be due to lack of delay on my harmony software, but it only happens when i press one button repeatedly in quick succession. Any thoughts anyone? Higher delay maybe? Any recommended delay settings?

Jesse Wrote:Im using the antec veris multimedia station ez and it works mostly fine. The only issue i have is when xbmc tweaks out thinking im pressing a directional button a million times. This may be due to lack of delay on my harmony software, but it only happens when i press one button repeatedly in quick succession. Any thoughts anyone? Higher delay maybe? Any recommended delay settings?

This is really starting to annoy me when trying to scroll through TV shows or movies. Anyone got any input?

garvani Wrote:Ive figured out most commands, and configured xbmc to start using irserver suites translator..
Anyways im not having any luck with the coloured "teletxt" buttons.. really want the ability to jump straight to the home screen, amonst other functions that these keys will allow (is there a way to jump to movies, or is that what MyVideos does??) Anyways heres the relevant keymap.xml entries if someone could please look and tell me where im going wrong

Code:

<myvideo>XBMC.ActivateWindow(MyVideos)</myvideo>
      <mymusic>XBMC.ActivateWindow(MyMusic)</mymusic>
      <mypictures>XBMC.ActivateWindow(MyPictures)</mypictures>
      <mytv>XBMC.ActivateWindow(Home)</mytv>

Edit: Figured it out .. For future reference for anyone else, you need to change the IRSSMAP.xml as well.. This is what it will look like:

Code:

<mytv>31652</mytv> <!-- red -->
<mymusic>31651</mymusic> <!-- green -->
<mypictures>31650</mypictures> <!-- yellow -->
<myvideo>31649</myvideo> <!-- blue -->

and this is what it needs to look like for the logitech to work:

Code:

    <mytv>31669</mytv> <!-- red -->
        <mymusic>31672</mymusic> <!-- green -->
        <mypictures>31670</mypictures> <!-- yellow -->
        <myvideo>31673</myvideo> <!-- blue -->

Back to another question tho, is there a better way to to go directly to the movie library!? im using xbmc.activatewindow(videolibrary,movietitles) and its no good.. it dosnt take me into the library, it takes me to a very broken looking screen that looks like it could be some bad skinning, but im sure its because its not calling the window properly (using aeon showmix). Does anyone have it working properly? Thanks! time for sleep, argh work in 5 hours.. damn you xbmc and logitech!

Here is what i do to jump straight to the library or video pages. Map the logitech button to the F1, F2 buttons etc... and then map those buttons in the keymap.xml file as below: Note the 'Downloads' 'Movies' etc is the name of the source.

<keymap>
<Global>
<keyboard>
<f1>ActivateWindow(videolibrary,tvshowtitles)</f1>
<f2>ActivateWindow(videofiles,Downloads)</f2>
<f3>ActivateWindow(videofiles,Movies)</f3>
</keyboard>
</Global>
</keymap>

Edit:

Looks like 100/1000 delay settings helps enough to make it usable. durrrr....

Can you post your full key-map please?

atiinola Wrote:That was my experience as well. The remote seemed much more responsive. I made a few minor changes to the keymapping file for opening certain windows and mapped them to special keys. I also set up one of the unused function keys to open XBMC from the desktop. I had tried event ghost, but this method was much simpler for me. I am using an mce receiver.

Can someone post a link to a MCE IR receiver that can be used in this setup with XP Pro? It seems as if they are hard to find and I haven't had much luck searching here or google, everything looks deactivated or out of stock. Would love to try this out with my harmony one.

Hey, quick question here: when using the Harmony as a MCE Keyboard, is the genuine Microsoft MCE Receiver needed or just any ol' IR receiver would do the trick?

HA HA It´s working
I have a Hauppauge IR reciver and a remote from my PVR-500
and ill thought ill give it a go even if this should be for the MCE remote IR reciver
but it worked.
i can now controll my XBMC HTPC with my Harmony 525 remote using a Hauppage IR reciver.
Cool.

Thanx alot

Thanks for the post. Using the MCE keyboard device settings with the harmony helps a lot in controlling XBMC. I'm also using it to control the external player (MPC-HC) through XBMC (using mapped keys in MPC-HC).