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

[noesis]

I'm a bit confused, but what I notice with my computer is that (under Windows Task manager) the Alternate MceIR "service" runs in the N/A group. If I go to the process level, it is running as a "SYSTEM" user name - other names under "Windows Task manager" (process area) include "user", "LOCAL SERVICE", "NETWORK SERVICE". My last idea is a bit of a guess & that you didn't install the MSI as an admin in the first place, and it is therefore showing up as a local service. Like I said a guess, but perhaps uninstalling it then reinstalling it as an admin user will help ?? - I don't have any other ideas, sorry, as my system/service doesn't seem to exhibit the same behaviour.

[blaher]

Well, installing the service directly from the msi has gotten rid of the error messages i posted previously. however, i'm still not getting any response from the device. if i use MCE-Vista:Test IR Transmit capability it says IR Service not running. If I go into my services I see the Alternate MceIR service running. It is logged on as Local System. I'm trying to make it log on as an admin account but then it fails to log on. Any more ideas?
Thanks!

When I have had problems with the MCE service I double click on the plug-in and click uninstall, then install. You probably have already tried that, but it's worth a shot if you haven't.

[bobn4burton]

Yes it is designed to work that way. The original mostly mapped to keyboard events (it did not talk exclusively to windows media center) so if it weren't disabled you wouldn't be able to do much without conflicting or duplicate actions.

OK...I think I have this plug-in working pretty well and I have gone through and mapped almost all of my normal MCE buttons to emulated keystrokes. Everything seems to be working pretty well, except how do you map the buttons which don't correlate to keystrokes? (i.e. eHome, Guide, etc) I can't figure out how to map those to an action that would work?

[bobn4burton]

OK...I think I have this plug-in working pretty well and I have gone through and mapped almost all of my normal MCE buttons to emulated keystrokes. Everything seems to be working pretty well, except how do you map the buttons which don't correlate to keystrokes? (i.e. eHome, Guide, etc) I can't figure out how to map those to an action that would work?

I guess I was just being an idiot. It appears there are valid keyboard shortcuts for everything. The particular table of keyboard shortcuts I found on the web was just incomplete. I found a more complete list of keyboard shortcuts and I got everything working...

Sorry to get everyone in a panic!!

[barnabas1969]

I just installed this plugin. The reason I wanted to use is is because it can receive any IR command. I still want my MCE remote to act normally though. So, what I'm looking to do is to let Media Center behave normally... for example, when I press the Guide button on the remote, I want to go to the guide in Media Center.

But when I press a button on a different remote, I wanted to be able to trigger a macro in EG. This part works great.

When I first install the plugin, it works both ways... Media Center responds to my MCE remote, and my macros can trigger based on buttons from different remotes. However, after rebooting or sleep/wake, this plugin seems to block my normal MCE remote from sending commands to Media Center. I can't get normal Media Center commands to work again until I uninstall the plugin and the service.

I don't want to create a macro for every button on the MCE remote. This would be tedious... and it also kills the fast scrolling feature in Media Center (when you hold down an arrow button, Media Center will scroll quickly through a list, like the guide).

So, is there a way to make this plugin so that it allows the MCE remote commands to pass through to Windows/Media Center?

Thanks,
Brian

[barnabas1969]

Never mind. I see what you did now. I looked in your python scripts and I see where you're changing the registry keys for the HIDIr remotes. I exported that key, installed the service, exported the key again and found the differences. Then, I made a registry patch that I can load after installing the service. EG now sees the button presses and so does Media Center. That's what I was hoping for. Perfect.

[bxr]

If the system logoff (like after disconnecting from remote access), the remote doesn't control anything,
so I can't enter the logoff which means I have to use keyboard or reset the system.
Any solution to that?

[Jbravo2]

EventGhost crashes learning remote code from MCE receiver, see viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3591

Any ideas to circumvent the problem?

[SlrG]

@stottle:

I have an Asrock z77 Extreme6 Mainboard with an Nuvoton W836x7HG CIR Receiver. The driver registers as Nuvoton W836x7HG CIR Device Driver and Microsoft eHome-Infrared Receiver using the stock Microsoft driver. I really want to get this to work with eventghost. Yet since 2009 (first posts I found regarding this topic) there doesn't seem to be any progress.

Do you see any chance we could work together to solve this problem? I'm willing to provide every possible info and help I can.

For Linux Lirc there seems to be a driver which works, but that doesn't solve the windows problem.

@Melloware:
Intelliremote (version 2.8.3.919) doesn't work for me. It produces an blue screen on installing. Crashing with the Nuvoton Driver it seems. But even without this driver it doesn't run. Giving me an Autoit 3 something error and xml error afterwards. I had to uninstall it. I'm on Windows 7 x64. Fresh install, fully updated.

regards,

Michael

[matejdro]

2) Right now it forwards the power button as any other button press, so there is no sleep/suspend capability.

Does that also removes wake capability (so you can wake PC from sleep using remote's power button)?

[barnabas1969]

2) Right now it forwards the power button as any other button press, so there is no sleep/suspend capability.

Does that also removes wake capability (so you can wake PC from sleep using remote's power button)?

It should still wake. When you put the PC in standby, the IR receiver is "wake armed" (if it's setup correctly). When in standby, the BIOS on the motherboard is in control, and will wake the PC when it receives the power command from the IR receiver.

[shimh]

I have an Intel DH77DF with Inteset CIR receiver (connected to Nuvoton chip via CIR header) connected to the CIR header. I cannot get Eventghost to receive IR event from CIR receiver (or it actually seems that the reception range becomes extremely small. If I put the remote in like less than 1 cm range, Eventghost sometimes does get the event from CIR). I've installed the alternative MCE service via the MCE plugin. The hardware should be fine. The remote can control Windows Media Center via the CIR receiver at normal range if Eventghost and the alternative mce service is not running.

So is there any trick to get this work with Eventghost? Thanks.

[megamacy]

Is there a way to get this plugin work on windows 8?

I updated from win7 and EG doesnt catch any IR command

[stax]

If I understand correctly then both mce plugins interface directly with the driver, would it be possible to build a plugin that uses raw input like described here, would that have limitations?

[blaher]

If the system logoff (like after disconnecting from remote access), the remote doesn't control anything,
so I can't enter the logoff which means I have to use keyboard or reset the system.
Any solution to that?

Make a shortcut on the PC you're logging into with:

%windir%\System32\tscon.exe 1 /dest:console

and click on it remotely to logoff