[RELEASE] MCERemote Addon - MCE Remote Control Plugin for XBMC on Windows

EDIT: Also just ran the addon and it gave me the error for it only runs on windows as well. I am running Vista x64.

Thanks for the info jhsrennie on how to edit it all, but i'm pretty sure i had that stuff. I was more looking at how to write a keyboard.xml for my userdata folder that will actually work.

So how i find the code that button sends, then write that code, the mce keypress it sends, and what i want it to do in a specific xbmc window properly.

jhsrennie Wrote:@mrpg and zpike: the plugin checks it's running on Windows by checking that the Python system.platform() function returns "Windows". However on Win7 the function unhelpfully returns "Microsoft" instead.

I'll fix this on Monday.

JR

thanks jhsrennie, looking forward to finally get my remote working

jhsrennie Wrote:@mrpg and zpike: the plugin checks it's running on Windows by checking that the Python system.platform() function returns "Windows". However on Win7 the function unhelpfully returns "Microsoft" instead.

I'll fix this on Monday.

JR

Fixed in v0.0.4 from http://xbmcmce.sourceforge.net/

JR

kulprit Wrote:EDIT: Also just ran the addon and it gave me the error for it only runs on windows as well. I am running Vista x64.

Thanks for the info jhsrennie on how to edit it all, but i'm pretty sure i had that stuff. I was more looking at how to write a keyboard.xml for my userdata folder that will actually work.

So how i find the code that button sends, then write that code, the mce keypress it sends, and what i want it to do in a specific xbmc window properly.

Well the Showkey applet generates a line of XML that you can copy and paste into keyboard.xml. It even has a "Copy" button to do the copy for you. A list of possible actions is on the Wiki somewhere.

JR

I got the 0.0.5 version and when i click the "Configure MCE keyboard shourtcuts" I get a error message : "MCERemote - Error opening the IR registry key"

zpike1 Wrote:I got the 0.0.5 version and when i click the "Configure MCE keyboard shourtcuts" I get a error message : "MCERemote - Error opening the IR registry key"

That means your account doesn't have permissions to write to that registry key. Either you're not using an administrator account, or you have User Access Control enabled. Try right-clicking the XBMC shortcut and choosing "Run as administrator", and then see if it works.

JR

All working so awesome jhsrennie. A few additions to my userdata keyboard.xml and working better than when using eventghost. Still a bit of tweaking to do with my setup i think but overall very good.

Cheers

This sounds like a great plugin!

What are your plans for further development? Would it be possible for when you press a button on your remote that isn't assigned, it pops up a window with a list of possible actions you can choose from?

It could then save the action to the specific button? That would make assigning the extra buttons on remotes easier, and also allow for reconfiguring without even leaving XBMC?!

bramblepants Wrote:This sounds like a great plugin!

What are your plans for further development? Would it be possible for when you press a button on your remote that isn't assigned, it pops up a window with a list of possible actions you can choose from?

It could then save the action to the specific button? That would make assigning the extra buttons on remotes easier, and also allow for reconfiguring without even leaving XBMC?!

What you describe is really outside the scope of the plugin. The plugin is just to configure the remote to send the standard Media Center keypresses. Configuring XBMC to respond to those keypresses is a different matter.

I did start on a Java program to edit keyboard.xml files, but to be honest I got bored with it and abandoned it. You'd have to use something like Java as I don't think the plugin system is powerful enough for a fully fledged keymap editor.

JR

jhsrennie Wrote:That means your account doesn't have permissions to write to that registry key. Either you're not using an administrator account, or you have User Access Control enabled. Try right-clicking the XBMC shortcut and choosing "Run as administrator", and then see if it works.

JR

thanks, working now is there any way to change setting or add functions to a key ?

edit : seems my asrock remote can't launch XBMC. I used this launcher http://inchoatethoughts.com/launching-xb...ter-remote ?