New way to get MCE Remote signals in EG (for Vista/Win7)

[jitterjames]

oridanus: One thing you can try as a temporary solution.

1st: Don't use autorepeat on any macros where you are doing blasting.

2nd: just before your blast action, but a short wait action. .1 or .2 seconds. That way the blast isn't being fired until after the receiver has finished and it is like you are firing from another device (or like you said, right click and execute action).

example:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1194">
    <Macro Name="Right" Expanded="True">
        <Event Name="MceRemote.Mce.Num3" />
        <Action>
            EventGhost.Wait(0.20000000000000001)
        </Action>
        <Action Name="Right">
            MCE_Vista.TransmitIR(u'0000 0069 0000 0026 014E 00A6 0016 003D 0016 0014 0016 0014 0016 0014 0018 0012 0016 0014 0018 0012 0018 0014 0016 0012 0018 003D 0016 003D 0016 003D 0016 003D 0016 003D 0016 003D 0018 003D 0014 003F 0016 003D 0016 0014 0016 0014 0016 0014 0016 0014 0016 003D 0016 0014 0016 0014 0016 0014 0016 003F 0014 003F 0016 003D 0016 003D 0016 0014 0016 003D 0016 05C4 014C 0053 0016 0DE3 014E 0051 0016 0F6C', 1)
        </Action>
    </Macro>
</EventGhost>

I just tested this briefly and it seems to work pretty well. I haven't stress tested it because I don't really use my mce for input.

[oridanus]

great!!! its working !!

It was so simple...

thank you so much
now its preforming almost exactly like in windows XP.

thanks again!

[jitterjames]

what's the shortest wait that still works reliably?

perhaps a note could be added on the plugin description?

[oridanus]

EventGhost.Wait(0.20000000000000001)

0.1 cause the problem again.

beside, with 0.2 you can't feel the waiting time...
its response pretty much like you expect from a TV remote.

adding a note to the plug-in is a good idea in my opinion.
this solution , despite that it is not the cleanest solution - is a good solution in my opinion.
if you give up on telling the differences between those remotes you can add it to your code and close the deal
(-:

thanks again Brett

[jitterjames]

it could be added to the plugin as an option. Unless brett thinks he'll figure out the actual problem...

[oridanus]

oops I'm sorry.

I meant to thank you - jitterjames - for the solution... somehow I got the feeling that I'm in a private chat with Brett (-:

off-course thanking Brett to his great efforts too .

[stottle]

Thanks for finding a workaround, jitterjames. That reminded me, there was a delay put into the original code. I didn't see a difference with or without the delay, so I took it out. When I rework the code, I'll see about adding that back in. I think I can set it up so that the plugin passes the value to the service, that way it can be configured from the plugin.

Brett

[jitterjames]

that's OK Oridanus: your statement

great!!! its working !!

was very satisfying to see. It's always nice to be able to help someone out with just a little effort. I love this community because pretty much everyone seems to be on the same page about that.

J

[iGBH]

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere or is somewhat noobish but i am having some problems with various mce buttons.

It seems some buttons are being passed through to MCE and others are not. For instance, i have no problems with directional arrows and enter in mce. EG recognises these for what they are. However it does not seem to be passing on other buttons ie play, stop, record, ffwd, etc. It is recognising them as mce inputs according to the log but they have no effect in mce.

I thought perhaps i needed to create a macro for these activities but so far i have not worked out how to do this. I have tried transmit IR from the MCE Vista/W7 plugin using the MCE pronto code for a MCE remote and assigning my button press as the event. This still has no effect although to be honest i'm not even sure if this is the right way.

Can anyone offer any advice as to why these commands are not being passed or how i can map them so that they do now work.

Thanks.

[jitterjames]

Yes, I think it is well covered. Start by reading the short manual.

If all you want to do is control mce, and you have an mce remote, I don't think you need eventGhost at all. If it has been properly installed, I don't think it should be 'passing' anything to media center. (I could be wrong here)

Transmit IR would only be used to control external equipment, like a TV or Stereo.

[iGBH]

I do need to use EG as I have changed the action relating to the green mce button so that it loads mediabrowser (a mce plugin) rather than the default screen.

I have read the short manual, and it makes sense. What is not covered is how I can get EG to create mce action. As I said, it will recognize the button press as an event but how do I put in a mce command as an action?

[jitterjames]

afaik, using the mce remote plugin will disable all the default features of the remote so you will have to remap them all to macros. I don't think there is a plugin that is part of the standard install yet for controlling media center, but it looks like you can add one.

take a look here: http://www.eventghost.org/forum/viewtop ... 192#p10192

btw It took me about 2 minutes to find this by googling "eventghost control mce". at the top of the google results page was this http://www.eventghost.org/forum/viewtop ... f=2&t=1837 a bit of reading lead me to the next thread. It's ok to ask for help, but I'm just saying, I didn't do anything you could not have done yourself. I know I'm grumpy today

I haven't tried the plugin myself. You can probably also recreate most of the original functionality of media center using keyboard emulation macros. Keyboard emulation IS standard so you'd just need to figure out which keys do what, and make sure that mce has focus or they won't work.

good luck.

[jitterjames]

I do need to use EG as I have changed the action relating to the green mce button so that it loads mediabrowser (a mce plugin) rather than the default screen.

if it's just for one button, you might be able to skip EG and just edit the registry or something? I have heard mention of this sort of thing but never tried it.

[iGBH]

Thanks for the help. I had come to the conclusion that i was going to have to map the keyboard shortcuts if it couldn't be done by remote actions so this saves me some time.

I have spent a lot of time searching and trying to work this out. Perhaps for someone who understands EG it is intuitive, but for people new to EG the lack of comprehensive documentation makes it difficult to get your foot in the door. The forum is a good source of information but not nearly as instructive as a good guide/wiki would be.

[smolesen]

Hi

Really usefull plugin you've created, makes it possible for me to use the MCE Receiver with other remotes, really GREAT!

One thing however....

Is there a way to have all the events from the normal MCE remote controller go to MCE and all other events to show up in EventGhost?

Or do I (somehow?) map all events in EventGhost?

TIA

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