EG is not picking up remote events

[odt]

Hi,

I just got a brand new HP MCE receiver and it's working flawlessly with my XBMC setup without EventGhost so far. But this was only to make sure the basic concept works, now I need to set it up for daily use which means I need to be able to control XBMC when the window is not in focus, due to the same PC being used in a multimonitor setup as a normal workstation and a HTPC.

The issue with EG is that I'm totally unable to get any remote keypresses to register in the events window. I read pretty much every single FAQ and short and long tutorial, but other than disabling the HID service - which does nothing in my case - I've not found what I might be doing wrong - or is my HP MCE receiver which registers as a normal Microsoft eHome tranceiver and as 3 keyboards in the device manager simply not working proplery? But I fail to see how that's possible, since the proof of concept scenario without EG is working.

The remote is a harmony 525, and I've tried to use it both as a microsoft mce keyboard and a microsoft mce 1040 remote, with the same results.

EG version: 0.3.7.r1462
Windows7 x64

And a picture to describe the problem, the events are from detaching/attaching the USB HP MCE receiver. I tried pressing pretty much every button on the remote afterwards without any event being picked up.



All help is kindly appreciated.

[stottle]

The MCE plugin that comes with EG was built for XP. Unless you run it with UAC turned off and as an administrator, the s/w cannot attach to the device, due to the privileges MS assigned within the OS. I wrote a Vista/Win7 version of the plugin which runs as a service so you can keep UAC on and don't need to be and administrator.

You can find it here.

Brett