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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1191653" data-attributes="member: 141969"><p>Interesting question. My understanding is that the POWER button on a true WMC RC6 remote control sends the SLEEP command, and that this command is intercepted by Windows itself, and <em>never seen by the piece of code that is handling the button presses from the remote control</em>. So MP's "General HID" support will never see the SLEEP command, and so there is no definition for it in the HID mapping. What the application <em>will</em> see is a broadcast message informing all applications that the system is about to sleep, but it is not "General HID" that sees that.</p><p></p><p>For a true WMC remote control, you define in the Windows power plan what action the SLEEP button is to perform (sleep, hibernate, or ignore).</p><p></p><p>For your Harmony, you can of course define the POWER button to perform any action you like, including multiple actions (you do that using the Harmony software). But ultimately the Harmony must issue the SLEEP command if you want it to turn the HTPC on or off.</p><p></p><p>Windows supports only POWER_TOGGLE -- Windows does not have separate POWER_ON and POWER_OFF actions. Using "Activities" on my Harmony 650 remote, the absence of separate ON and OFF actions does not cause a problem, because the Hamony 650 does state tracking.</p><p></p><p>What exactly are you trying to do with your Harmony POWER button(s)?</p><p></p><p>-- from CyberSimian in the UK</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1191653, member: 141969"] Interesting question. My understanding is that the POWER button on a true WMC RC6 remote control sends the SLEEP command, and that this command is intercepted by Windows itself, and [i]never seen by the piece of code that is handling the button presses from the remote control[/i]. So MP's "General HID" support will never see the SLEEP command, and so there is no definition for it in the HID mapping. What the application [i]will[/i] see is a broadcast message informing all applications that the system is about to sleep, but it is not "General HID" that sees that. For a true WMC remote control, you define in the Windows power plan what action the SLEEP button is to perform (sleep, hibernate, or ignore). For your Harmony, you can of course define the POWER button to perform any action you like, including multiple actions (you do that using the Harmony software). But ultimately the Harmony must issue the SLEEP command if you want it to turn the HTPC on or off. Windows supports only POWER_TOGGLE -- Windows does not have separate POWER_ON and POWER_OFF actions. Using "Activities" on my Harmony 650 remote, the absence of separate ON and OFF actions does not cause a problem, because the Hamony 650 does state tracking. What exactly are you trying to do with your Harmony POWER button(s)? -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]
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