EventGhost /MCE and generical questions

[geedsen]

Just installed EventGhost. And going through the documentation a couple of things are unclear to me:

1) Do I need to run EventGhost to trap the events of the MCE Remote? So should I put it in the startup program group or something?
2) After dragging and dropping MCE actions to XBMC events, do I need to do something more . Export a configuration file or something to XBMC ? Or is that not neccesary because EventGhost is running and takes care of it?
3) Is it that EventGhost is running , traps an MCE button press and knows that the active application is XBMC.exe and therfor knows what keypress should be send to XBMC?
4) In the WIKI I found that if I want to remap the MCE remote buttons I should use another (not the standard eHome) driver. Why. I did not do that and can see the events appearing in EventGhost and can map these events to XMBC actions. So why would I need another driver?

Thanks

[CollinR]

1) Do I need to run EventGhost to trap the events of the MCE Remote? So should I put it in the startup program group or something?

Most likely, yes. If you want it always running you would put it in the startup group.

2) After dragging and dropping MCE actions to XBMC events, do I need to do something more . Export a configuration file or something to XBMC ? Or is that not neccesary because EventGhost is running and takes care of it?

Nope you are done assuming you have all events and actions matched, of course you can add more at anytime.

3) Is it that EventGhost is running , traps an MCE button press and knows that the active application is XBMC.exe and therfor knows what keypress should be send to XBMC?

Normally that depends on how you ave your system configured, I don't have the xbmc plugin and don't use mce or vmc. I normally have to specify if I want soemthing to work because it's in focus, always or whenever something else is in focus. However by having a plugin some of that may already be included and set to always regaurdless of focus.

4) In the WIKI I found that if I want to remap the MCE remote buttons I should use another (not the standard eHome) driver. Why. I did not do that and can see the events appearing in EventGhost and can map these events to XMBC actions. So why would I need another driver?

If it's not broken don't fix it. I think thats just a generic driver that is known to work with EG and known to work with several of the MCE approved remotes.

[geedsen]

Thanks for the answers