EventGhost

Indeed. I had built out one of the rooms in the basement as a home office 10 years ago, all with perfectly nice cable channels on the wall at the floor, and now they're all hidden behind big shelves full of books. Some easily accessible and nice looking solution under the ceiling is certainly the ...

Indeed. Just installed a wire channel in the basement to pass my new 300 Mbps up/down FTTH Internet connection. Like a real ugly sports car. You don't ride it for the looks

running wire is easy.
you need a couple of specialty tools to make life a lot easier.


Thanks for the drill tips. The flex-shaft drill bits indeed look cool. Alas, i did not have the option to drill in my place with wood walls (renting). The one where i have the problem has brick walls and i ...

start --> run... gpedit

this will allow you to edit the global security policies on the computer.


I know the command, but i wouldn't know which object or access policy for my admin user i would need to change so that it can directly access the MCE interface. Would be interesting to try this so ...

Wrt arduinos IR dongles: I was primarily interested to learn if you have published the whole solution, but sounds as if not.

I have developed on arduino ethernet and yun years ago, but both of them seem to have been victims of the arduino break back then. Yun rev 2 doesn't even seem to support PoE ...

The inteset USB IR receiver seems to be working fine so far. Especially after reboot. *yeah*.
Uses eHome driver
lsusb says: 1934:5168 Feature Integration Technology Inc. (Fintek) F71610A or F71612A Consumer Infrared Receiver/Transceiver
EG says: 0 Transmitters (0 attached), does have learn ...

Nice.
Any pointer to these arduino IR transceivers ? Whats the cabling between arduino and the EG PC ?

Yes, in my place in germany i am using the URC-6430, but that backlit model is even cheaper here in the US. Should probably get a one or two. They don't show up on www.oneforall.com anymore, so they may be out of production.

Not even sure i would need the backlight, they are ergonomic enough that i ...

Never really played around with eventghost beside most basic mapping, MCE remote -> kodi plus a few custom command.

The most basic thing i am trying to understand is if/how eventghost would allow me control multiple programs from a single remote. Lets say i have N buttons to select one of N ...

Hate to see such good insight to be burried deep inside some random thread. Would be nice to have a sub-forum called product review or the likeso that there could be topics around specific product, such as the pinnacle. Maybe just expand on this in the explanation of the "show your setup"...

The ...

Not sure how much longer you want to humor me arguing about the degree of brokenness of that one IR receiver given how i've already given up on it. SO just in case you like to continue the argument: If the windows HID service can deal with whatever brokenness comes from the device via the windows ...

My logic for blaming AlternateMceIrService is that the receiver works fine with the standard HIDservice. How is that not a persuasive argument ? ;-))

The fact that the problem with the IR receiver happens also on win7 only says that this is an old problem in AlternateMceIrService and not something ...

Btw: same behavior of this IR receiver on the old win7 computer (works only after second start of AlternateMceIrService).
Same microsoft driver of 6/21/2006, EG 0.4.1.r1582 and whatever version of the service that came with it.

Output appended, but there is no difference.
I experimented a bit more:

AlternateMceIrService has to be started a second time to work. Even if AlternateMceIrService is started first manually long after windows has booted. The only way i found for the service to work first time around is to unplug ...

starting EG, AlternateMceIrService not running.
manually start AlternateMceIrService in services.msc.
Does not work.
Restarting it then and it does work.

Looks to me as if EG makes some mistake initializing the connection to the service...