About: MCE Replacement Plugin

[and-81]

MCE Replacement Plugin V1.0.3.1
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Made for MediaPortal by and-81

This plugin serves as a replacement for MediaPortal's built in support for the MCE remote. The reason for developing this plugin was to support a replacement driver for the MCE remote and to add complex IR blasting capabilities to MediaPortal. From those humble beginnings the plugin has grown to do a lot more than that.

So what exactly can this plugin do?

* Set complex IR blasting commands and macros to any button on the MCE remote.

* You can re-map buttons that until now have had a fixed function, like the arrows, the PC Power and others. (requires a small registry modification or the replacement driver)

* Control your set top box to tune external channels. And if your set top box is on the list you can set it up automatically without teaching the plugin any of your set top box's IR codes.

* Minimize MediaPortal and still control it, handy for listening to music.

* "Different Remote" lets you configure a different (compatible) remote to function as an MCE remote. This means you can configure a programmable universal remote (or even just some spare buttons on another compatible remote) to act as if it was the MCE remote.

* Map a button on your remote to launch an external program.

* Use external programs to change channels on your set top box. Like the MPExTuneCmd plugin, but with more flexibility.

* "Message Mode" lets you use HIP, EventGhost or Girder to send commands to MediaPortal, the plugin will make MediaPortal think it was receiving the actual remote button presses itself. This means you can get the same level of control over MediaPortal as you would if you were using the native MCE remote support while still being able to use HIP, EventGhost or Girder for all your other remote control needs.

* "Mouse Mode" lets you press a button on your MCE Remote and have it take control of the on screen mouse. While in Mouse Mode you can control the mouse not only in MediaPortal but across your whole PC.

* "Multi-Mapping" lets you cycle through multiple sets of button mappings, effectively giving you an unlimited number of buttons.

* "Event Mapper" can assign an IR code or macro to a MediaPortal event. For example, you could have have it turn on your tv when it starts or resumes from standby and turn it off again when it shuts down or goes into standby.

Please read the plugin documentation for more details here:
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mc...on-t22667.html

The plugin can be downloaded from the main site, here:
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/file...Plugin1.0.3.1/

From time to time a "test version" of the plugin will be released, the idea is to get new features out to a small group of users for testing, if you're interested then keep an eye on this sub-forum.

I also want to take this opportunity to thank the MediaPortal Developers for all the hard work they have put in. Keep up the good work guys. I know you hear it a lot, but seriously, you're doing good work.

Cheers,