Hello,
I have recently bought an
Harmony Smart Control, I thought I can directly control my PC but after reading the web, I saw that it's not possible. Options to do it seems to use IR or Bluetooth. In any cases persons expect somes issues. With an IR RC6 USB receiver and MCE Keyboard as
Harmony device there are some trouble with keys as prevously post deal with, I don't have an RC6 receiver so I didn't test it, but I sure this solution was completed tested. So I'm developping an alternative.
My solution use an IR receiver with an Arduino Uno and a custom .NET program. You can select any IR device in
Harmony to control your PC. With my program you can assign an instruction for each received IR code. For exemple, send a key to the focused application, shutdown computer, start a program, etc. Instead of sending key to XBMC, I'm thinking to use the XBMC API to control it.
This work is in progress but I will post here soon the Arduino schema and the source code of the application.
Keep in touch