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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ScoobyMP" data-source="post: 505394" data-attributes="member: 96480">Remotes and MPHi In2Photos,I couldn't get MediaPortal itself to recognise the buttons. EventGhost did however so what I did was copy the keyboard emulation profile, and map the keys for MediaPortal to the remote - basically I created a keyboard emulation profile for MP. I also have it so that it en/disables profiles as different applications are launched or shut down. This turns out to make for a solution that's more powerful than I expected because I can have the remote launch different applications but also have good functionality in all of them. For instance, In the default "Keyboard Emulation" profile, the green Windows button launches MediaPortal, but by hooking into the event for MP becoming active, I disable the Keyboard Emulation profile. Similarly, when MediaPortal is deactivated, its profile is disabled, and the ordinary keyboard emulation one is enabled. I do the same for WinAmp. This allows me to use the green windows button to do "X" in MP and toggle full screen for visualisations/video. The music button on the desktop launches WinAmp, but in MediaPortal it runs a macro that does keypresses to get into the music menu within MP. The keyboard emulation approach isn't ideal though, as MP has some overlap of functionality for keys, but the main ones are consistent. I do have odd things though like the "i" on my remote shows the info panel for whatever movie I'm watching but in the music view, the same underlying key press ("Y" I think) adds items to the playlist when it's showing movies/albums/etc.. So it's a bit of a compromise. Doing macros like the music one does make some assumptions so if you run it from somewhere a bit quirky in MP, the macro won't take you to where you expect it to. From main areas it's ok though and the main thing is I can now use all the buttons! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />EventGhost does have a MediaPortal plugin but as I understand it it needs something else to be in place in order to work with MediaPortal. It lets you map straight to particular actions in MP, rather than emulating keyboard strokes. I've not yet had time to look into that and try and get it working. I wasn't sure what was required and couldn't find any particularly clear info on that... it seems you need a plugin for MP but when I looked it seemed to be a very out of date one that isn't supported or something (if I remember rightly). Perhaps someone can advise us if they're using EventGhost with the MP plugin...  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" />Scooby</blockquote>

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