EventGhost

barnabas1969 wrote:After installing the MCE Remote plugin for Vista/7 (see here), and the associated background service, I found it easier to just add the HID registry keys back into the registry. This makes the remote control send commands to Media Center just like it did before I installed EG... plus, EG gets the events from the button presses so I can trigger macros. Adding the HID registry keys back into the registry makes the plugin being discussed in this thread unnecessary.

In other words, when you add the HID registry keys back into the registry, the EG plugin for MCE Remote (Vista/7) no longer prevents those IR commands from being sent to Media Center.

The reason I wanted to use the MCE remote plugin for Vista/7 was so that I could use the MCE IR dongle to detect key presses from any remote, not just the MCE remote. For example, I can program my remote to send an IR code from a component that I don't even own and then use that IR code in EG to trigger a macro. I have buttons defined on my remote's touch-screen that go directly to Netflix, Hulu, MCE Sleep Timer, etc. There are no keyboard shortcuts for these in Media Center. What I did was I used a "PC Remote" (not the MCE remote) commands for F1, F2, F3, etc. Media Center ignores these commands... but EG sees them and runs the command-line for ehome.exe to navigate directly to Netflix, runs the HuluWatcher.exe for Hulu, and stuff like that.

Doing it my way (adding the HID registry keys back into the registry) also gives me back the fast-scroll feature in Media Center. For example, if you use this MCE plugin to send the keyboard key <Right-Arrow> to Media Center, even if you have it set to repeat the button... Media Center will never fast-scroll through the guide. This is because Media Center needs to detect that you are holding down the button in order to start fast-scroll.

steve1977 wrote:My problem is that the plugin checks whethe MCE is running and otherwise does not pass on the keyclick. Is there any way tp disable the "MCE-check"?

Context is that I am running Mediabrowser3 on Win7x64. Mediabrowser uses the MCE keymap. Please note that I am not using the MCE remote, but need this plugin for the MCE keymap.

FindMCE = eg.WindowMatcher(u'ehshell.exe', u'Windows Media Center', None, None, None, 1, False, 0.0, 0)

class hotKeys(eg.ActionClass):
    def __call__(self):
        hwnds = FindMCE()
        if len(hwnds) != 0:
            eg.SendKeys(hwnds[0], self.value, False)
        else:
            self.PrintError("MCE is not running")
            return

FindMediabrowser3 = eg.WindowMatcher(u'mediabrowser3process.exe', u'Media Browser 3 Windows Title', None, None, None, 1, False, 0.0, 0)

class hotKeys(eg.ActionClass):
    def __call__(self):
        hwnds = FindMediabrowser3()
        if len(hwnds) != 0:
            eg.SendKeys(hwnds[0], self.value, False)
        else:
            self.PrintError("Mediabrowser3 is not running")
            return

steve1977 wrote:Unfortunately, this does not work. When installing the revised plugin, I am getting the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last) (1640):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eg\Classes\PluginInstanceInfo.py", line 153, in CreateInstance
plugin.__init__()
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\plugins\MCE\__init__.py", line 124, in __init__
self.windowMatch = FindMCE
NameError: global name 'FindMCE' is not defined