EventGhost

Tried pressing any number button on my remote

The number buttons are members of the set of buttons that do NOT require the 'Generic HID' plug-in; rather, they trigger *regular keyboard events*.
As such, they do not require an EG plug-in at all, except if you want to redefine what regular ...

There IS a way to distinguish between normal key events and those generated by the remote control, but there may be obstacles:

If you add another instance of the 'Generic HID' plug-in to EG's Autostart node, and try the various device names (in my case, it is the 1st in the list), you'll find one ...

This remote presents itself as a composite devices, right? Some key are real remote keys (PLAY, STOP, etc) and some (the navigation ones) are keyboard keys: that is if I press UP on the remote I've keyboard UP on the eventghost log windows as If I press "UP" on the keyboard...

Correct.

You say ...

Strange - I have no explanation for what you describe. On my system, only the Windows Media Center-related buttons control MP even when it does not have the focus.

> There is no way to filter out key-presses from the remote only NOT from Keyboard?

I don't think so; seems to me that what the ...

Voilà; formatting's not great (is there table support that I'm not aware of?), but I hope it'll do.

- Map of buttons and event names

Note:
- Unfortunately, events cannot be renamed in EventGhost.
- Buttons are listed by and large row by row (some are grouped by related functionality), from ...

@JXWNL: Thanks for getting me started; I have now figured out how to get ALL buttons working in EventGhost, with the sole exception of the Power button, on my Windows 7 32-bit machine:

- If enabled, disable the MCE plug-in.

- Support for the remote-control buttons must be enabled via *2 ...