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<blockquote data-quote="magao" data-source="post: 482103" data-attributes="member: 86026">You have to be very careful about which &quot;MCE&quot; remote you buy. The ones that just emulate a keyboard (and mouse) are not worth the money you pay for them. With a lot of fiddling with EventGhost it is possible to get them working reliably, but it's not worth the time. I accidentlly got one that didn't even issue the keycodes as a stack so instead of getting events like:CtrlCtrl+ShiftCtrl+Shift+FCtrl+ShiftCtrlit issued events like:CtrlCtrl+ShiftCtrl+Shift+FShift+FFTalk about brain-damaged! You capture the Ctrl+Shift+F, and then the application sees the Shift+F and F events. I managed to work around this with EventGhost (Ctrl+Shift+F puts EventGhost into a mode where it captures the Shift+F and F, and only performs the action on F), but it really is not worth the trouble.Instead, you need to get a remote that actually generates MCE remote codes. The Microsoft and Hauppage remotes are fine. I use the Hauppage USB MCE remote - the receiver is very unobtrusive, and it works just fine with my Harmony 525.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="magao, post: 482103, member: 86026"] You have to be very careful about which "MCE" remote you buy. The ones that just emulate a keyboard (and mouse) are not worth the money you pay for them. With a lot of fiddling with EventGhost it is possible to get them working reliably, but it's not worth the time. I accidentlly got one that didn't even issue the keycodes as a stack so instead of getting events like: Ctrl Ctrl+Shift Ctrl+Shift+F Ctrl+Shift Ctrl it issued events like: Ctrl Ctrl+Shift Ctrl+Shift+F Shift+F F Talk about brain-damaged! You capture the Ctrl+Shift+F, and then the application sees the Shift+F and F events. I managed to work around this with EventGhost (Ctrl+Shift+F puts EventGhost into a mode where it captures the Shift+F and F, and only performs the action on F), but it really is not worth the trouble. Instead, you need to get a remote that actually generates MCE remote codes. The Microsoft and Hauppage remotes are fine. I use the Hauppage USB MCE remote - the receiver is very unobtrusive, and it works just fine with my Harmony 525. [/QUOTE]

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