[WINDOWS] HOW-TO use a Logitech Harmony Remote with XBMC

I'm going to ask a potentially really stupid question... Will I have to change anything in Linux to get this to work?
I ask because I have struggled for months to get ANY remote to work with the inbuilt IR receiver in my ASRock ION 330ht. I have tried and changed a million things in Linux and nothing has worked..

So if I buy this IR receiver you link to, and plug it in, it should just work (given I've followed your guide)?

ok, in the spirit of things I'm going to ask another potentially stupid question :-)

I'm currently using an old mce remote mapped through event ghost. It was super easy to set up, I didn't need to play with the keymap.xml file.

It is only used to control xbmc, and from what I can tell i have access to all functionality (e.g. codec view, subtile on off etc). There is no lag between keypress and action, from what I can tell.

Having been mistreated for the last few years the remote is in a bad shape and I have been thinking of replacing it with a harmony 300.

However looking at all the posting in this thread, i get a feeling that the harmony is rather hard to set up with xbmc? or am I missing something here?

Is it better I get another mce remote off ebay? All comments appreciated :-)

Harmony is super easy and super flexible. If you use mce remote now all you have to do is set your harmony device software to mce remote and it will function exactly the same with no effort at all.

is that the recomended way to use a harmony remote? i.e.will I be missing on some functionality if i put it in mce mode?

You wont lose any functionality if you set the harmony to "MCE Keyboard", but you might get some lag with the key presses.

You will be gaining functionality as you can use more than one device in an activity. Download the harmony SW from logitech and try it out, should be more apparent how it works then. You don't need the remote to have use the software.

I just got my Harmony Remote in the mail last night and was wanting to setup things correctly for XBMC, and looks like the OP's pictures aren't visible anymore.

Can anyone in the know write out the description for what he was doing on those activity screens?

Hey, guess there's a problem with my hoster. Let me see if I can find and reupload the pics. Sorry...

vanOert Wrote:Hey, guess there's a problem with my hoster. Let me see if I can find and reupload the pics. Sorry...

Thank you, Please add the pictures again, or make a PDF file and upload it, so that we can follow.

vanOert Wrote:Hey, guess there's a problem with my hoster. Let me see if I can find and reupload the pics. Sorry...

Hey I have a receiver that should be arriving in the next day or 2. Could you possibly upload the pics to Photobucket or type out the steps in the original post while you look for a new host?