Gyration MCE Remote Supported

[mrspl]

Sound like everything I need
To bad they dont sell it in sweden though.
Anyone got a tip on oversea shipping ?

I am not going to Las Vegas until april this year, and dont think I can wait that loooong.

[level20peon]

Have a look at Amazon for this. You also can browse through the reseller list on the Gyration homepage but they most likely don't ship overseas and they do not necessarily have the GYR3101US out of various Gyration products.


-level20peon

[testimies]

Hi

I bought one about 5 months ago. Amazon doesn't ship to europe. It has something to do with warranty. Gyration doesn't provide any support for this product in europe and so Amazon can't send it.

I used international checkout. It buys products from U.S. stores and sends them forward to anywhere in the world. Problem is that they take quite big comission and sends products with UPS. So it can cost twice it costs in U.S.

I bought both remote and keyboard and they took 100 $ as a handling and shipping fees. On top of that I had to pay taxes also to finnish custom.

The combo costs about 130 $ in U.S and I ended up paying double. It is a great remote but not that great..

[mckzoo]

Hi Level20Open,

I was able to follow you advise and setup EventGhost OK. The I installed the KeyboardInputPlugin and your Remote.xml file to all the settings in the Keyboard.xml file - ASUS Remote .... I had to remove the existing Gyration HID file and add my own. I also had to update all the Actions to the new HID.Buttons etc.

I've remaped the Green Button to take me to MP Home. This seems OK for now but I noticed you are using the Green Button to launch a RC.exe file. What does this do? I'd be interested in looking at the file. Is it customisable at all.

After installing the KeyboardInputPlugin I found my navigation keys would jump 2 steps instead of one. To solve this, I opened Keymap.xml and removed all code, and saved it to my Backup directory. This way I can dump my Backup files into any new MP installation and over-write the Keymap.xml file with my blank one

Many thanks for your detailed instructions.

McKzoo

[level20peon]

I don't really get what you did other than basically configuring EventGhost from scratch since you deleted everything of my settings... Anyway, the RC.exe contains an autoIt script:

#NoTrayIcon

Func _Singleton($occurenceName, $flag = 0)
	Local $ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS = 183
	$occurenceName = StringReplace($occurenceName, "\", "") ; to avoid error
	;    Local $handle = DllCall("kernel32.dll", "int", "CreateSemaphore", "int", 0, "long", 1, "long", 1, "str", $occurenceName)
	Local $handle = DllCall("kernel32.dll", "int", "CreateMutex", "int", 0, "long", 1, "str", $occurenceName)
	Local $lastError = DllCall("kernel32.dll", "int", "GetLastError")
	If $lastError[0] = $ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS Then
		If $flag = 0 Then
			Exit -1
		Else
			SetError($lastError[0])
			Return 0
		EndIf
	EndIf
	Return $handle[0]
EndFunc


if Not _Singleton("RC.exe",1) = 0 Then
	
	While ProcessExists("joy.exe")
		ProcessClose("joy.exe")
	WEnd
	While ProcessExists("remap.exe")
		ProcessClose("remap.exe")
	WEnd
		Run("C:\Programme\Team Mediaportal\joy.exe", "", @SW_HIDE)
		Run("C:\Programme\Team Mediaportal\remap.exe", "", @SW_HIDE)
	if Not _Singleton("MediaPortal.exe",1) = 0 Then
		Run('C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\MediaPortal.exe')
	EndIf
	
EndIf

Basically I start MediaPortal along with "joy.exe", another AutoIt script which maps my Logitech Joypads without mapping them in the MediaPortal configuration (I can use more custom controls than the MediaPortal configuration would allow me to do).
"remap.exe" is an autohotkey script for two buttons on the remote (it's hard to explain without seing the full picture... I HAVE to use some parts of MediaPortal configuration to map some things I cannot do externally... this script does the trick of putting it all together).
Theoretically when I press the Green Button while MediaPortal is up and running it will kill my custom apps and reinitialize them (not that this has ever been necessary).

If you need more information on this feel free to ask .


-level20peon

[Mishref]

Has anyone been able to map the gyration to control plugins? I want to map the buttons to MP-TVseries and MyFilms. The MyKey Plugin is limited to non-plugins.

Thanks!

[level20peon]

This is a feature which MediaPortal lacks of, nobody is able to do so unless you rename the xml pages of these plugin to the respective ones which are supported by the MyKeys plugin. This would be really confusing to do in my opinion. So there is no rational way to do what you want by now.


-level20peon

[level20peon]

I just found a possibility to emulate ALL Windows media keys listet here. First of all we need a list for all Keys (The order of the list on the microsoft website isn't what we need):

PHP Code:

APPCOMMAND_BROWSER_BACKWARD       1
APPCOMMAND_BROWSER_FORWARD        2
APPCOMMAND_BROWSER_REFRESH        3
APPCOMMAND_BROWSER_STOP           4
APPCOMMAND_BROWSER_SEARCH         5
APPCOMMAND_BROWSER_FAVORITES      6
APPCOMMAND_BROWSER_HOME           7
APPCOMMAND_VOLUME_MUTE            8
APPCOMMAND_VOLUME_DOWN            9
APPCOMMAND_VOLUME_UP              10
APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_NEXTTRACK        11
APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_PREVIOUSTRACK    12
APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_STOP             13
APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE       14
APPCOMMAND_LAUNCH_MAIL            15
APPCOMMAND_LAUNCH_MEDIA_SELECT    16
APPCOMMAND_LAUNCH_APP1            17
APPCOMMAND_LAUNCH_APP2            18
APPCOMMAND_BASS_DOWN              19
APPCOMMAND_BASS_BOOST             20
APPCOMMAND_BASS_UP                21
APPCOMMAND_TREBLE_DOWN            22
APPCOMMAND_TREBLE_UP              23
APPCOMMAND_MICROPHONE_VOLUME_MUTE 24
APPCOMMAND_MICROPHONE_VOLUME_DOWN 25
APPCOMMAND_MICROPHONE_VOLUME_UP   26
APPCOMMAND_HELP                   27
APPCOMMAND_FIND                   28
APPCOMMAND_NEW                    29
APPCOMMAND_OPEN                   30
APPCOMMAND_CLOSE                  31
APPCOMMAND_SAVE                   32
APPCOMMAND_PRINT                  33
APPCOMMAND_UNDO                   34
APPCOMMAND_REDO                   35
APPCOMMAND_COPY                   36
APPCOMMAND_CUT                    37
APPCOMMAND_PASTE                  38
APPCOMMAND_REPLY_TO_MAIL          39
APPCOMMAND_FORWARD_MAIL           40
APPCOMMAND_SEND_MAIL              41
APPCOMMAND_SPELL_CHECK            42
APPCOMMAND_DICTATE_OR_COMMAND_CONTROL_TOGGLE    43
APPCOMMAND_MIC_ON_OFF_TOGGLE      44
APPCOMMAND_CORRECTION_LIST        45
APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_PLAY             46
APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_PAUSE            47
APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_RECORD           48
APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_FAST_FORWARD     49
APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_REWIND           50
APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_CHANNEL_UP       51
APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_CHANNEL_DOWN     52 


Now we select "Add command -> Window -> Send Message" in EventGhost.

In the window that pops up we select "WM_APPCOMMAND", wParam is always "0" and lParam is (example for channel-up):

APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_CHANNEL_UP * 65536 = 51 * 65536 = 3342336
... so it's always [desired command] * 65536 !


This is what the command looks like in EventGhost afterwards:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="908">
    <Action>
        Window.SendMessage(793, 0, 3342336, 0)
    </Action>
</EventGhost>

-level20peon



PS: Attached my current remote.xml

[esajesa]

Hi,

How do you supress the Power button???

also, has anyone been able to detect long keypresses in Eventghost with this remote??

//Jens

[carmenm]

That might look like a dumb question, but i just discovered the remote through a friend that works for gyration. Can the HID plugin for evenghost allow special movements done with the remote to be mapped to an action?