How to map a remote key that's not listed?

[tankd0g]

Is there a way to map a key on the Hauppage remote to "Refresh imported media library"? It doesn't seem to be int he list of available commands.

[Opus4]

If you are trying to program a button to go to a screen that does not have a command assigned to go directly there, then you could use a series of commands to get you to that location. p. 252 of the v5 manual has an example of such a thing, though you don't have to use the SendMessage utility that it uses in the example.

- Andy

[Opus4]

The concept should work in any STV, provided you can get to a known state in the menus that you jump to in the series of commands. When I do this in the default STV, I use Page Up or Page Down to go to the first or last item on the menu, then use the arrow keys from there.

- Andy

[Opus4]

This isn't something you would do in SageTV... how you would implement it depends on how you use your remote. If you are using the Hauppauge IR receiver, you would edit the irremote.ini file. If you are using Girder or HIP, you would have to program them to send a sequence of comamnds instead of a single command.

If you are using a USB-UIRT directly with SageTV, then you would have to switch to Girder, HIP, or whatever, in order to be able to send multiple commands.

- Andy

[Opus4]

The only way to customize an MCE remote in this way is to use something like Girder or HIP.

- Andy

[mike1961]

Opus - I'm a user of HIP with the USB-UIRT for several apps and I think it works just great. I played with girder but it seemed a lot harder to set up and get working.

Mike

[Opus4]

From a different thread:

Originally Posted by jds23

Well, now after all that, I learned from HIP that you can only send ONE command via sendmessage at a time. On the Sage manual, it allows you to send multiple messages in sendmessage, but not HIP..One at a time there only...

I don't use HIP, so I'm curious: does it only allow a single paramter to be sent to SendMessage.exe? If so, obviously it won't work at all, since it needs multiple parameters to even send a single command. But, if you are able to send multiple parameters to send a single command, then can send multiple commands by adding more parameters to the command line.

- Andy

[Opus4]

Just so you know: the "sendmessage" they are referring to is not the SendMessage.exe utility I wrote & used as the example for sending multiple commands in the SageTV manual. What they are referring to is a built-in capability to send a windows message. If it can run an external program instead, then the SendMessage utility could be used, though there is always a slight delay when another program has to be run like that.

I guess it looks like HIP might be missing a script or batch type of response to a remote button press. (?)

(Yes, I know you got your issue of getting to a specific menu resolved... just offereing additonal comments.)

- Andy