Controling MCE and XBMC

[pbu50w]

I have Eventghost set up to use my MCE remote to control XBMC under Vista. Is there any way to get the remote to control both? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[dbbd]

yes, there is.
You'll need to assign 2 buttons to start the applications. Then when you start one of the applications, you enable
the context folder for the application. When you exit it, you disable as well.

So when EG starts, both applications are disabled, when you start one, you enable its context folder. That way,
the macros for keys can be used for various applications, but only one set is active at a time.

[we87]

Could you please be more specific on how to acomplish this?

I am new to this program and I am trying to control MCE and XBMC from the same remote as mentioned above, but I dont understand how to enable a context folder for a certain program. Could you please elaborate on that?

Thanks alot in advance!

[byronl]

I too am confused about this.

I've installed the latest eventghost version on XP MCE SP3, installed the MCE remote (HID disabled) and XBMC plugins. I've not changed the MCE remote driver as I got the impression this is not necessary with the new DLL.

I can control XBMC perfectly but even with eventghost shutdown I cannot control MCE? And I cannot see/find and MCE plugin (I'm guessing it's not needed?)

I can stop XBMC and bring up MCE and bring it up to the front. As part of this I disable all other macros and make the macro that starts MCE exclusive.

I've got all the action stuff down pat and it works wonderfully well. Very clever stuff.

What am I missing? Do I need to re-enable HID? I thought it would be a matter of making MCE be the front window?

Thanks

Byron

[byronl]

Ok, to control MCE and presumable VMC you need to re-enable HID in the MCE remote plugin. You then have control over MCE if it's running. I've set things up so only MCE or XBMC are running at any time.

The downside to this is that certain buttons such as Guide, My videos, Rec Tv, Live Tv etc all start media centre. This is annoying as I had assigned those keys to functions in XBMC. I need to undo this and use the keyboard plugin and use keyboard keys for these events. Fortunately I have the IR keyboard and learning remotes so F1, F2 etc or whatever can be captured and used to control XBMC or whatever.

To switch programs I capture the sleep button which disable all macros except ones to start MCE, XBMC etc and then use the coloured buttons on the remotes to kick off the correct macro. Since these buttons are not mapped like the special buttons above this works well. The XBMC and MCE macros needs to have an action that captures the sleep button press and disables the macro that it is in and re-enable the start MCE, XBMC macros.

I tried disable the HID service but the special buttons still work, a reboot is needed I guess (I wonder which process picking these button presses up, and can it be killed and restarted as desired????)

I hope this helps somebody struggling with this.

Byron

[byronl]

I've done a lot more playing and disabling HID and controlling MCE with emulated keystrokes is the only way. Leaving HID enabled and suspending ehtray.exe and other IR/MCE related processes caused control in XBMC to be very flaky ie. jumping 2 files at a time etc.

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