Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="joehbad" data-source="post: 844362" data-attributes="member: 59706">This is an updating post because the details seemed to be slightly different these days. The instructions above are still broadly right, but now eventghost seems to only locate 3 HID devices. One of these doesn't work as above, and returns a message like "zero length file not allowed" when you add it. Don't worry about this. 1. Install the message plugin in mediaportal (recently updated for version 1.2.x, thank you to whoever did that). No configuration was required, just install it.2. Install eventghost3. start configuring eventghost by removing the default setup, and start a new config.3. Get all the input and output devices into eventghost by loading the 3 Generic HID plugins, the keyboard plugin, and the mediaportal plugin.4. Press a button on your keyboard, then drag the event from the left pane to the mediaportal action on the right pane.5. repeat until all the buttons you want are done.6. set eventghost to start automatically in the options menu. I had the same problem as above that all the left side buttons worked easily, but none of the right side buttons would appear as events. Until, I had a hunch and loaded the keyboard plugin. It turns out that the right side buttons are producing sequences of keypresses such as: rightctrl.leftshiftrightctrl.leftshift.trightctrl.t i.e. there are always 3 seperate events generated from one button press, with each event consisting of multiple keypresses. Presumably, the normal drivers would watch for these sequences and intercept them accordingly. So, to get the special keys on the right working, just drag the pretty unique middle event (rightctrl.leftshift.t in example above) to the action in the mediaportal plugin. Thank you very much to the people that worked this all out originally. It was great to finally get these extra buttons working, not least because it stops them triggering random stuff when they are bumped acidentally! I also would say that I was amazed by how powerful the Eventghost software is. It's actually really simple to use despite how confusing it looks when you first start it up. I can highly recommend watching a youtube video of someone working through an example before you start, and you will go from wtf to ahhh in a few minutes. The Homer Simpson description of what is does is that it sits between input devices that you choose and your system, and intercepts input events that you choose and uses them to trigger actions in software that you point at. Eventghost works so well that I'm going to bring some old remotes out of retirement that I struggled to get working consistently via things like IRSS. I used Mediaportal 1.2.2, Windows XP Pro SP3, and <a href="http://www.eventghost.org/downloads/EventGhost_0.4.1.r1544_Setup.exe" target="_blank">EventGhost 0.4.1.r1544, and a Genius Luxemate 810 media cruiser.</a></blockquote>

Verification