Pavilion DV9640us remote control (1 Viewer)

[Mileni]

Please, can anyone tell me how can I get all buttons working in my little remote controller, which came with my entertainment laptop. I have downgraded Vista to XP PRO, and I've installed MEDIAPORTAL (also MCE replacement plugin)...
I can use buttons like up, down, left, right, volume up, volume down, but I would like to have fully functionality, for example green windows button for starting and exiting MP, end the others buttons as well...
Thank you in advance for any kind of answer!

 

[soguy]

I just posted a similar problem. Did you find a solution?

 

[Mileni]

Not yet... I have deinstalled MP until I find solution, sorry

 

[Melloware]

This remote uses standard IR port to receive its signals. I believe with MP you can configure the IR input with one of the plugins to do what you want. You can customize the buttons.

If not something like Girder will definitely allow you to do it.

 

[soguy]

Actually I found out that the remote sends standard keyboard strokes for most of the buttons except for:

• MCE button
• DVD button
• QuickPlay button

So I configured the keyboard shortcuts in MP accordingly.
When I tried to use Girder it detected all other buttons as keyboard strokes and not as IR transmits.

 

[Lolento]

Actually I found out that the remote sends standard keyboard strokes for most of the buttons except for:

• MCE button
• DVD button
• QuickPlay button

So I configured the keyboard shortcuts in MP accordingly.
When I tried to use Girder it detected all other buttons as keyboard strokes and not as IR transmits.

Hi, I was looking for the solution as well as I have an HP laptop.

I found this program that reassigns the default keyboard shortcuts to do whatever you want. So you can reassign all the MCE, DVD and Quickplay button. I already have this working.

AutoHotkey - Free Mouse and Keyboard Macro Program with Hotkeys and AutoText

 

[soguy]

Actually I found out that the remote sends standard keyboard strokes for most of the buttons except for:

• MCE button
• DVD button
• QuickPlay button

So I configured the keyboard shortcuts in MP accordingly.
When I tried to use Girder it detected all other buttons as keyboard strokes and not as IR transmits.

Hi, I was looking for the solution as well as I have an HP laptop.

I found this program that reassigns the default keyboard shortcuts to do whatever you want. So you can reassign all the MCE, DVD and Quickplay button. I already have this working.

AutoHotkey - Free Mouse and Keyboard Macro Program with Hotkeys and AutoText

Sounds great. Can you share the configuration file?

 

[Lolento]

Sure, there are some prerequisites for using my autohotkey script.

1.) HP Quickplay and HP QuickPlay Button Controls has to be uninstalled.
2.) Media Center has to be disabled. For Win Vista (which I'm using), you have to disable all 4 Windows Media Center services; delete the ehtray.exe startup key from the registry; and lastly, rename the ehtray.exe to (for example) ehtray.bak. To rename ehtray.exe in Vista, you need to run CMD with Admin rights and then take ownership of ehtray.exe first.
3.) You need My Keys plugin for MP.
4.) You need to disable the Sleep button on the remote by going to Window's Power Profile. Change option for Action when Sleep Button is push to "Nothing".

What this does now it disable the quickplay buttons, the sleep button and the media center button on the remote and on the laptop. (If you have the screen rotate button and the QuickPlay control panel button on you laptop, then you won't gain their functions back even with my script as I cannot scan the codes for these two buttons.)

So now you setup AutoHotKey to run on boot with the following ahk script file:
DetectHiddenWindows, on
SetTitleMatchMode, 1

#!Enter::
IfWinNotExist, MediaPortal
Run "C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\MediaPortal.exe"
Else
{
IfWinNotActive
WinActivate
Else
Send {h}
Return
}

SC10E::
IfWinNotExist, MediaPortal
Run "C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\MediaPortal.exe"
Else
{
IfWinNotActive
WinActivate
Else
Send {o}
Return
}

SC108::
IfWinNotExist, MediaPortal
Run "C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\MediaPortal.exe"
Else
{
IfWinNotActive
WinActivate
Else
Send {t}
Return
}

#IfWinActive, MediaPortal
{
BS::Esc
SC15F::!F4
SC15D::F9
SC119::F8
SC110::F7
SC122:
SC124::b
^+f::F6
^+b::F5
Return
}

What this script does is that it detects whether Mediaportal is running firstly (or any window with a title that starts with Mediaportal such as Mediaportal config). If Mediaportal is not running, then the QuickPlay, DVD, or MCE button will start Mediaportal. If Mediaportal is running but not in focus, then QuickPlay, DVD, or MCE button will bring it to focus. If Mediaportal is running and in focus, then the remote control will have the following assigned keys:

Power - Alt F4 or Exit MP
Green Button - h or Goto MP Home
QuickPlay - t or Goto My Tv
DVD - o or Goto My Videos
Info - F9 or Show Context Menu
Next Chapter - F8 or Next Chapter or Next Channel
Prev Chapter - F7 or Prev Chapter or Prev Channel
Play - Play or Pause
Stop - Stop
FF - FF
Rw - Rw

I know there are some bugs with this script as I use it because when I check the Autohotkey console window, I see that some loops are ran a couple more times then it should... It doesn't effect anything functionally though. So it should do what you want. If you notice something wrong with the script, let me know because I only been playing with it for a few days.

 

[soguy]

Lolento, many thanks for your reply!
I will definitely follow the steps your provided and reply...

 

[josetto]

Hi,

I have HP Pavilion dv 6750ec with HP remote and win 7. I was able to run almost all buttons on my remote with MP plugin Keyboard Input. Only buttons, that I didn't make work are quickplay button and DVD button, these buttons just seems don't react. I tried to set them through autohotkey script but it's not working there either (But for a while, dvd and quickplay button on keyboard worked, but it's not working anymore ). I tried it with installed and uninstalled quickplay buttons and quickplay. Any suggestions?

THX