2011-03-07, 23:48
Ok so I bought a windows remote (RC118 model) over the weekend and spent Sunday setting it up with XBMC + EventGhost. I'm running Windows 7 Pro 64bit.
It took some fair old working and I'm a bit hazy on some parts cos there was a lot of following of tutorials but the rough jist was:
- Installed latest XBMC release
- Installed latest EG release
- Installed XBMCRepeat which I found in a forum (although I think it linked to a website where I then downloaded the latest)
I think I was doing stuff in the wrong order and what not but eventually I got to the stage where I was seeing my remote commands appearing in EG. One hurdle I came across was EG had "MCE Remote" and "MCE Remote Win Vista/7" as pre installed plugins. The tutorial said install the first but I ended up having to install the second, sounds obvious but that second options asks to install a service which I happily did. The tutorial is a bit old anyway so I figured it's fine.
Anyway, as it was detecting remote commands I was happy, so I pressed on and set up my remote control buttons to do the various tasks in XBMC, no problems. I even, although I don't know how, managed to stop WMC opening when I pressed the green button
All was good, I spent hours playing with it cos well, it's a new toy, and it's been fine. Opened it this morning as well, no problem.
Came home at 5 o'clock today with a friend to show it off, only to be left embarrassed when it's all broken. I've looked in the EG log, and my remote button presses now log as things like: "MceRemote.RC6mode6_0_800FB40D".
I tried uninstalling the plugins, uninstalling eHome Infrared Receiver (USBICR) from Device Manager, didn't do XBMC cos I figured the problem exists before commands reach XBMC.
Still absolutely nothing. It's working fine controlling WMC again, so no broken hardware. One thing I did notice, when I very first plugged in the USB receiver (on Sunday) it installed 4 things. Even though I uninstalled the device, it only installs 2 things when I plug in the USB receiver again.
Thanks for listening to my story, if anyone has any ideas I'd be very grateful.
Regards,
Chris
It took some fair old working and I'm a bit hazy on some parts cos there was a lot of following of tutorials but the rough jist was:
- Installed latest XBMC release
- Installed latest EG release
- Installed XBMCRepeat which I found in a forum (although I think it linked to a website where I then downloaded the latest)
I think I was doing stuff in the wrong order and what not but eventually I got to the stage where I was seeing my remote commands appearing in EG. One hurdle I came across was EG had "MCE Remote" and "MCE Remote Win Vista/7" as pre installed plugins. The tutorial said install the first but I ended up having to install the second, sounds obvious but that second options asks to install a service which I happily did. The tutorial is a bit old anyway so I figured it's fine.
Anyway, as it was detecting remote commands I was happy, so I pressed on and set up my remote control buttons to do the various tasks in XBMC, no problems. I even, although I don't know how, managed to stop WMC opening when I pressed the green button
All was good, I spent hours playing with it cos well, it's a new toy, and it's been fine. Opened it this morning as well, no problem.
Came home at 5 o'clock today with a friend to show it off, only to be left embarrassed when it's all broken. I've looked in the EG log, and my remote button presses now log as things like: "MceRemote.RC6mode6_0_800FB40D".
I tried uninstalling the plugins, uninstalling eHome Infrared Receiver (USBICR) from Device Manager, didn't do XBMC cos I figured the problem exists before commands reach XBMC.
Still absolutely nothing. It's working fine controlling WMC again, so no broken hardware. One thing I did notice, when I very first plugged in the USB receiver (on Sunday) it installed 4 things. Even though I uninstalled the device, it only installs 2 things when I plug in the USB receiver again.
Thanks for listening to my story, if anyone has any ideas I'd be very grateful.
Regards,
Chris