MCE Remote Control - Directional Keys and the OK Button Stop Working

[waltraud]

Hi,

I'm experiencing some weired behavior with my MCE Remote Control.

When I'm playing back imported videos the directional and the OK button do not work anymore. If I then connect remotely via UltraVNC and click once into the screen they start working again. I have this problem with the default SageTV.xml and flachbar's SageMC.xml

This is what I do ->

Sage.xml

- Playback an AVI
- Bring up the OSD with the OK button of the MCE Remote and select 'Stop Playback'
- Start playback again and the directional keys and the OK button stop working

SageMC.xml

- Playback an AVI
- Press the yellow button of the MCE Remote to bring up the aspect ratio menu
- Directional keys and the OK button stop working

All the other buttons seem to work fine. (Back, EPG, Info etc.)

Any ideas?

[waltraud]

Anyone?

[gplasky]

Sounds like a focus issue. You're losing focus of the OSD when it comes up. Are you using any other software withe the remote? Is anything else running while you're running Sage?

Gerry

[waltraud]

Originally Posted by gplasky

Sounds like a focus issue. You're losing focus of the OSD when it comes up. Are you using any other software withe the remote? Is anything else running while you're running Sage?

Gerry

The system dedicted to SageTV. No mouse or keyboard attached. There are a of couple background task running e.g. UltraVNC but no other Applikations. I use the MS driver for the remote.

I agree I seems to be a focus problem. The strange thing is that only the OK button and the directional keys seem to be affected.
I can for example still use the green button to get back to the main button but I won't be able to move the selection bar. The other strange thing is that it only happen when I am playing back stuff from within the media center. When I am playing back a recording everything works just fine.

[gplasky]

I would suggest double checking in Detail Setup and make sure you have chosen the MCE Remote as your remote and then go into Commands and make sure by trying to learn the keys that it actually sees them and try the OSD again. Do you have MS Powertoys or TwakUI installed with one of the options of keeping active app in focus or something like that?

Gerry

[waltraud]

Originally Posted by gplasky

I would suggest double checking in Detail Setup and make sure you have chosen the MCE Remote as your remote and then go into Commands and make sure by trying to learn the keys that it actually sees them and try the OSD again. Do you have MS Powertoys or TwakUI installed with one of the options of keeping active app in focus or something like that?

Gerry

Hi,

I have TeakUI installed. I disabled "Prevent applications from stealing focus" and now everything is fine.

Thanks for the help!