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<blockquote data-quote="iscrow" data-source="post: 50160" data-attributes="member: 19614">Yeah it is slick, but it wasn't that much work to create the profile.&nbsp; 95% of the credit should go to the MediaPortal dev team for integrating the X10 framework in MP. The hardest thing was trying to determine the X10 codes corresponding to each key on my firefly. The way I did this was to install EventGhost. It also has X10 support, but when you press a key on the X10 remote, event ghost kives you the generic button name, which is different than the function of the button. I correlated these names with the names in the default custom MediaPortal profile to figure out the actual codes. Then, when I had all this mapped out, I just chanjed the names in the XML profile to match the button names on the firefly and voila, it worked like a charm. What's slick is that thanks to the MP team, we can now call particular screens with a button press! so now the TV, Photos, Music, etc. buttons on the firefly remote can be mapped to the corresponding screens in Media Portal! That was impossible to do the &quot;old way&quot; with girder and sending keystrokes that didn't work right half the time...I'm glad this is helping people. I think the firefly is one of the slickest PC remote contorls out there, but very few apps support it natively. I wonder why? I have one in my home theater and one in my car. They are just awesome. I like the key layout and I like that it has some PC related keys on it unlike other remotes.Anyway... enjoy the profile.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="iscrow, post: 50160, member: 19614"] Yeah it is slick, but it wasn't that much work to create the profile. 95% of the credit should go to the MediaPortal dev team for integrating the X10 framework in MP. The hardest thing was trying to determine the X10 codes corresponding to each key on my firefly. The way I did this was to install EventGhost. It also has X10 support, but when you press a key on the X10 remote, event ghost kives you the generic button name, which is different than the function of the button. I correlated these names with the names in the default custom MediaPortal profile to figure out the actual codes. Then, when I had all this mapped out, I just chanjed the names in the XML profile to match the button names on the firefly and voila, it worked like a charm. What's slick is that thanks to the MP team, we can now call particular screens with a button press! so now the TV, Photos, Music, etc. buttons on the firefly remote can be mapped to the corresponding screens in Media Portal! That was impossible to do the "old way" with girder and sending keystrokes that didn't work right half the time... I'm glad this is helping people. I think the firefly is one of the slickest PC remote contorls out there, but very few apps support it natively. I wonder why? I have one in my home theater and one in my car. They are just awesome. I like the key layout and I like that it has some PC related keys on it unlike other remotes. Anyway... enjoy the profile. [/QUOTE]

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