MCE Remotes

[phenixdragon]

With 2.1, is this talking about the Windows Media Center remotes? Both the 2005 and th previous version?

[gplasky]

Yes. I have the Phillips MCE Remote and it works. I have the previous version so I can't confirm if the 2005 version works but it should.

Gerry

[Opus4]

If you look at this MS site, you will see a list of remote commands. SageTV 2.1 currently responds to everythings but the ones that use WM_INPUT, I believe.

- Andy

[Scriber]

Does this with work with the MCE receiver too (I assume the blaster won't which I don't need anyway) or would I need to get another receiver?

Originally Posted by Opus4

If you look at this MS site, you will see a list of remote commands. SageTV 2.1 currently responds to everythings but the ones that use WM_INPUT, I believe.

- Andy

Seems a lot of commands use WM_INPUT. Is Girder required for those to work?

[Opus4]

I don't have an MCE remote, so I'm only going on what I was told. Maybe someone like gplasky can confirm actual operation...

Originally Posted by Scriber

Does this with work with the MCE receiver too (I assume the blaster won't which I don't need anyway)

I believe the receiver is part of the package & using a different receiver would mean using differnet software, like Girder. SageTV does not use MCE's blaster.

Seems a lot of commands use WM_INPUT. Is Girder required for those to work?

It depends on how many of those commands are actually implemented on the remote. As far as I know, SageTV doesn't respond to the buttons that use those commands, but I could be wrong. It should do so in the future at some point, but I don't know when. If SageTV doesn't respond to those buttons, then you could use Girder or use it with a USB-UIRT directly with SageTV.

- Andy

[gplasky]

Yes this works with the MCE receiver. (No blasting)
If you want to use all the buttons you have 2 choices: Either use Girder with the MCE plugin or use a USB-UIRT receiver. Sage supports the USB-UIRT but I wasn't successful trying to get it to work thru Sage. I kept coming up with some duplicate codes on the keys that I couldn't resolve.

For me and wanting the most flexability I'm using Girder on the one PC and USB-UIRT and Girder on my Main PC.

[Scriber]

Originally Posted by gplasky

Yes this works with the MCE receiver. (No blasting)
If you want to use all the buttons you have 2 choices: Either use Girder with the MCE plugin or use a USB-UIRT receiver. Sage supports the USB-UIRT but I wasn't successful trying to get it to work thru Sage. I kept coming up with some duplicate codes on the keys that I couldn't resolve.

For me and wanting the most flexability I'm using Girder on the one PC and USB-UIRT and Girder on my Main PC.

Thx for the confirmation. Forgive my ignorance, but is there some reason why Sage doesn't support these WM_INPUT buttons? Seems strange.

I tried using the MCE remote/receiver and the Girder plugin on an XP SP1 computer awhile back but IIRC (its been a month or 2) I had issues with XP stealing the remote commands (i.e. TGB started WMP even though mapped to Sage via Girder). On an MCE computer I disabled ehome(?) service and it worked fine.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by Scriber

Forgive my ignorance, but is there some reason why Sage doesn't support these WM_INPUT buttons? Seems strange.

Don't know... lack of time when this was worked on, perhaps? Maybe it will get added at some point.

- Andy

[phenixdragon]

It is a nice step to having a remote. Hopfully the 2005 remote gets support.