harmony remote and usbuirt IR to control MP? (1 Viewer)

[bergsprekken]

I have the usb-uirt ir receiver for pc installed and it blinks when i hit something on the remote control.
The remote is Harmony 785 set to control "windows media center". I tried to set the remote settings in mediportal to mce control but it doesnt work. Is there something more i need for mediaportal to receive the commands, any software or remote drivers? Ive installed the drivers for usb-uirt..so I thought the only thing needed was to set harmony to act as a mce remote?


TV-Server Version: 1.0.0.0
MediaPortal Version: 1.0.0.0
MediaPortal Skin: blue3
Windows Version: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3
CPU Type: Intel Core 2 duo E6300 @ 1.86GHZ
HDD: Western Digital 74GB
Memory: 2GB DDR2
Motherboard: Asus P5K Deluxe wifi
Video Card: HSI Radeon HD 4650 silent
Video Card Driver: 8.561
Sound Card: ATI Function Driver for High Definition Audio - ATI AA01
Sound Card AC3: no AC3
Sound Card Driver: 5.0.50000.8
1. TV Card: Digital-Everywhere FloppyDTV T/CI
1. TV Card Type: DVB-T
1. TV Card Driver: 4.8.0
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec: MPV Decoder Filter
MPEG2 Audio Codec: MPA Decoder Filter
h.264 Video Codec: CoreAVC Video Decoder
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case: SilverStone
Cooling:
Power Supply:
Remote:
TV: Panasonic th42
TV - HTPC Connection: hdmi

 

[piairo]

Hi Bergsprekken,

Similar problem as you for the time, did you found a solution?

 

[matis1]

i am having the same problem again as it was about two years ago:
drivers installed and USBUIRT connected to an USBport but MP doesnt recognize either driver or device...

could someone of the devs look into that problem?
thanks in advance

 

[mike0999]

Usbuirt IR to control MP?

Hi

I know this is an old thread, but I recently purchased a USBUIRT to use with mediaportal. It works briefly, and I can get it configured using the learn commands, but it will at some point just stop working. Also, if I go back to the mediaportal configuration program after it has stopped working, the check box that I selected to activate USBUIRT will have become unchecked on its own, and mediaportal tells me that the driver for the USBUIRT is not installed if I try to check the box again. If I go to the device manager, though, the driver is installed and says that it is working properly. Also, I can see that the device is responding to transmission of RF by flashing when I press the remote.

Any thoughts? I am using the latest SVN version of mediaportal. I suppose I can uninstall everything and try it with the latest beta and alternatively production release.

Has anyone else experienced that problem? Any suggestions? I didn't see anything in any of the logs that was useful.

 

[bergsprekken]

Hello

You should try to use EventGhost with its usb-uirt "plugin". I havent been able to set up usb-uirt and a remote with mediaportals own setup controls, but when I installed EventGhost and chose the usb-uirt plugin the remote suddenly works in mediaportal client.
EventGhost

 

[mike0999]

Thanks. I'll give that a try. I'm actually wondering if I might have some sort of software conflict, but we'll see.

 

[D3tritus]

I'm seeing something similar. Sometimes my USB UIRT just stops working with Mediaportal. I don't see any change in config or any driver issues, however, and simply shutting down MP and starting it again generally fixes the issue. It's intermittent though and difficult to reproduce...

 

[mdg78]

Just to add my experience here, I'm using a USB-UIRT with MP without an issue. I originally got the USB-UIRT to blast commands, so I had IRSS plugin set up for that. MY case has an imon pad, which I find pretty crummy. When I recently got a new remote, I used IRSS to get the commands from the USB-UIRT to MP, and it works pretty well. It took a while to set up (but I'm not using a MCE remote, which I think is supposed to go pretty quickly) but I haven't had any problems with it. I haven't tried the build-in USB-UIRT support in MPconfig, though. Don't know if this will help anyone. I would assume that EventGhost would work just as well as an earlier poster suggested, but I haven't used it.

Michael

 

[D3tritus]

Hmmm. I'm not using the IR Server Suite, but the built-in support. I'll look into installing IRSS and give that a try. Sounds like it could resolve the issues. I'll post back here next week once I've had time to look into it. Thanks for the post.

 

[Crackofdawn]

I couldn't get my harmony to work with most functions in Mediaportal with the built in remote settings. I installed IR Server Suite and completely disabled the remote in MediaPortal, then in IRSS I chose my Harmony as an MCE Remote and in the harmony software I programmed the Harmony to emulate an MCE remote and everything just worked immediately without any additional configuration. Without IRSS many MCE functions like pause and stop didn't work.