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<blockquote data-quote="fshagan" data-source="post: 481787" data-attributes="member: 89390">I had the same problem with my clone MCE remote.&nbsp; Couldn't get it to work with XP Pro, even with EventGhost (see below).I bought a Streamzap remote from Amazon.com ($31), and it works fine.&nbsp; URL for the page at Amazon is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Streamzap-USBIR2-PC-Remote-Control/dp/B00008XETO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=electronics&amp;qid=1246747331&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank"> Here </a>Streamzap has support for Mediaportal listed on their website.&nbsp; You can use the arrow keys to navigate menus, the &quot;OK&quot; button to select, the play, pause, fwd, etc. keys for their normal functions, the &quot;Exit&quot; key to back out of each section, the Menu key, etc.&nbsp; It did work out of the box.There isn't a Streamzap listed in the config program for MediaPortal; I have nothing checked off in there.&nbsp; The other possibility to try to get your MCE remote working with XP Pro is to use EventGhost, although I couldn't get it to work for me.&nbsp; I could only get basic keyboard emulation out of the MCE remote I bought ... it would never show up as anything other than a USB keyboard, and the keypresses never generated an action in the EventGhost logging panel.&nbsp; The arrow keys would work, but that was about it.&nbsp; If your remote does work with EventGhost, its easy enough to install it and try.&nbsp; It has a plug in for MediaPortal and the MCE remote.&nbsp; You then assign each command by pressing a button and then dragging the corresponding logged action over to the desired function on the MediaPortal side of the window.&nbsp; I actually did it for the Streamzap and it worked fine (and even gave me mouse-cursor movement with the arrow keys), but I decided the native Streamzap functionality was better for my use (moving the mouse cursor with the arrow keys was not that handy.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fshagan, post: 481787, member: 89390"] I had the same problem with my clone MCE remote. Couldn't get it to work with XP Pro, even with EventGhost (see below). I bought a Streamzap remote from Amazon.com ($31), and it works fine. URL for the page at Amazon is [url=http://www.amazon.com/Streamzap-USBIR2-PC-Remote-Control/dp/B00008XETO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1246747331&sr=8-1] Here [/url] Streamzap has support for Mediaportal listed on their website. You can use the arrow keys to navigate menus, the "OK" button to select, the play, pause, fwd, etc. keys for their normal functions, the "Exit" key to back out of each section, the Menu key, etc. It did work out of the box. There isn't a Streamzap listed in the config program for MediaPortal; I have nothing checked off in there. The other possibility to try to get your MCE remote working with XP Pro is to use EventGhost, although I couldn't get it to work for me. I could only get basic keyboard emulation out of the MCE remote I bought ... it would never show up as anything other than a USB keyboard, and the keypresses never generated an action in the EventGhost logging panel. The arrow keys would work, but that was about it. If your remote does work with EventGhost, its easy enough to install it and try. It has a plug in for MediaPortal and the MCE remote. You then assign each command by pressing a button and then dragging the corresponding logged action over to the desired function on the MediaPortal side of the window. I actually did it for the Streamzap and it worked fine (and even gave me mouse-cursor movement with the arrow keys), but I decided the native Streamzap functionality was better for my use (moving the mouse cursor with the arrow keys was not that handy.) [/QUOTE]

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