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

From looking at EventGhost log, it appears that Harmony is not consistent in the number of codes it sends when I click down or up... I bet this has to do with it being set as a MCE Keyboard... perhaps certain keys send more than 1 string?? With it set to other devices, it seems to work fine.

WannaTheater Wrote:From looking at EventGhost log, it appears that Harmony is not consistent in the number of codes it sends when I click down or up... I bet this has to do with it being set as a MCE Keyboard... perhaps certain keys send more than 1 string?? With it set to other devices, it seems to work fine.

Strange...that happens with me when I use something other than MCE Keyboard. Are you aiming at your USB-UIRT at a really oblique angle?

Nope... straight on. Does the same thing for 2 different USBUIRTs on 2 separate machines. You can even see the red light flashing more than once. The harmony is definitely sending more than one signal.

Hey,

first of all i have to say a BIG thank you for this thread!
It helped me a lot to solve my Harmony/XBMC issues. But some problems are still remaining:

I have tested several delay-settings, but i can't solve the problem of "repeating key presses". This always happens when i'm pressing a button (e.g.: direction up, ...) to short. In this case i keeps repeating my last command from my harmony and stops when i'm pressing another key :/

The second "issue" (it's more an annoying difference between keyboard and remote control) could be connected with the first problem. Key presses on my harmony seem to be transfered very slow, it takes ages to scroll through a longer list of films or tv shows.

I hope someone can help me, and i'm sorry for my poor english-grammer knowledge

cheers

steelman1991 Wrote:Anybody having difficulty when using Danielocean's tip for start-up? When I first set this up using F7 as start up key everything functioned as expected, however on several occasions since initial set-up the funtion to start-up (F7 in my case) has ceased to work. The only way to refocus the system is to re-boot my PC. Anyone else encountered this problem - or maybe offer a solution?

Did you find a solution to this? I browsed through the entire thread and didn't see a answer on it. I just recently ran into this on my machine. I had to reboot my machine aswell to make it work again.

Hey.
Very nice and rewarding thread.
My problem is how to map f.ex. F5 to open the favorites list in XBMC. There I have my netradiostations etc.
I have seen this in the keymap.file:
<browser_favorites>ActivateWindow(Favourites)</browser_favorites>
but I don't know how to use it from the keyboard.

I had in mind something like this:

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

Egon

I just have a tiny question: Does this way (harmony as mce keyboard) work with XBMC when XBMC is out of focus (your surfing or typing or whatever) and XBMC is running in the background on another screen)?
Does this work? Or does XBMC have to be in focus for this to work?

Hello!

Short answer:

It has to be in focus!

Bye,
Itzak

egon Wrote:Hey.
Very nice and rewarding thread.
My problem is how to map f.ex. F5 to open the favorites list in XBMC. There I have my netradiostations etc.
I have seen this in the keymap.file:
<browser_favorites>ActivateWindow(Favourites)</browser_favorites>
but I don't know how to use it from the keyboard.

I had in mind something like this:

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

Egon

Hi,

I'm also interested in this. I'd like to add a button on my harmony to go straight to favourites, movies, music and playlists.

Is this possible or do I have to adjust the keymap.xml?

thanks

johnmerrick Wrote:Hi,

I'm also interested in this. I'd like to add a button on my harmony to go straight to favourites, movies, music and playlists.

Is this possible or do I have to adjust the keymap.xml?

thanks

Her you can see the endresult, that works. You have to modify the keyboard.xml


- <keyboard>
<f1>ActivateWindow(musicfiles,musik-plugins)</f1>
<f2>ActivateWindow(musicfiles,music)</f2>
<f3>ActivateWindow(MyPictures,fotos)</f3>
<f4>ActivateWindow(videofiles,movies)</f4>
<f8>ActivateWindow(musicfiles,Favourites)</f8>
<f5>ActivateWindow(Home)</f5>
<f6>ActivateWindow(Favourites)</f6>


Egon