Select MCE remote buttons don't work. (1 Viewer)

[dmdbdd]

XP Pro would not plug & play with my HP eHome infrared receiver, even though HP says that it
should. I tried for hours to find a driver via Internet searches. I finally resorted to the sledge
hammer approach and forced a manual driver install. Still MCE didn’t work.

Installed IR server Suite - test build 1.4.2.4068 as a server per recommendation

MediaPortal Configuration:

On plugin screen, selected MP Control Plugin for IR Server and configured for Microsoft
MCE.

On remote screen, checked ‘Use Microsoft MCE remote’.

IR Server Configuration:

Configured for Microsoft MCE remote.

Received the following error message after closing configuration window:
‘IR Server Configuration encountered a problem and needs to close.’

Discovered that select remote buttons don’t work in MP.

Launching the Debug Client from the IR Server tray, determined that the following buttons are
not being responding; Up, Down, Left, Right, OK, Volume up & down, Mute, 1 thru 0, and
Enter.

All buttons work in Vista, so I know that it’s not the remote or the receiver. Could the above
error message and the dead button problem be related? Could it be a driver problem? The
following drivers are installed: hidclass.sys, hidir.sys, hidparse.sys, and hid.dll.

 

[jameson_uk]

Take it this is xp home not pro? Many years since I used home but IIRC I had issues getting MCE remote working (is plug and play under pro).

I vaguely remember something about installing an XP MCE rollup fix to home?

edit: scary what I remember from ten years ago... have you installed http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=7716

edit2: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?p=155499&postcount=9 (post 9)

 

[dmdbdd]

Thanks for for your input, however this is WinXP Pro - should have noted that, sorry.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Then if its a working ehome RC6 receiver it should auto install the ehome driver, funnily enough another user has just reported the same problem with a Dell receiver needing its own driver which he had supplied with remote, but still not shown in device manager as "ehome irreceiver (usbcir)", seems to be so kind of hid device instead.

Edit just found this possible gem http://it.megocollector.com/?p=8

 

[sonome]

This is an old problem I used to have with XP home edition - from memory, the driver "reserves" arrow keys & number buttons for MCE, causing issues with them being recognised for other uses. Try the registry edits listed in this post, which is what works for me: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/ir-server-suite-irss-165/obsolete-mce-replacement-driver-29024/

 

[VdR]

I use the LM Remote software to control my HP remotes for MP. You can find a free version on their website.

For me this works great both on my XP Pro client as on the W7 client. No conflict with the eHome drivers, no green button problems. You can reprogram any key. I reprogrammed the volume, mute and power keys to blast my Z5500 amplifier f.i.

Give it a try, it does wonders.

VdR

 

[DragonQ]

I tried both IR Server Suite and LM Remote but neither worked properly for me. In the end, I just installed KeyboardInputPlugin and used extended logging to find out what key combinations my remote was emulating. Then I just set those commands to do what I wanted in the KeyboardInputPlugin config page.

All of my remote buttons work as intended within MediaPortal now (except Info which for some reason is fixed as "right mouse click", stupid remote).