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<blockquote data-quote="quartermain" data-source="post: 1079968" data-attributes="member: 147791">I also have this remote - I'm confused as to whether it is a &quot;Microsoft Remote&quot; or an &quot;MCE Remote&quot; - the XBMC Wiki article &quot;Using an MCE Remote in XBMC&quot; says they are different. The IRRC would seem to be a Microsoft Remote since the supplied manual says it uses RC-6 format and refers to eHome drivers.However Device Manager on my Win8.1 system does not show &quot;eHome&quot; anywhere. In Human Interface Devices I see two instances of &quot;HID-compliant consumer control device&quot; - I'm guessing one is the IRRC and one is the remote sensor on my TBS 6285 TVB-T2 card. So is the IRRC Microsoft or is it MCE?Another weird thing about this is that it is modal. Many buttons have two functions, the manual lists these as Mode 1 and Mode 2. The red button switches to Mode 1, the blue button to Mode 2.This is borne out in practice, at least in Windows. In Mode 1 the up/down/left/right rocker does the same thing as the up/down/left/right keys on the keyboard, but in Mode 2 these buttons move the mouse. In OpenELEC Mode 1 causes the buttons to emulate the up/down/left/right keys, but in Mode 2 nothing happens.Even weirder, I am conviced that the remote itself isn't modal. I've cloned it on to a URC-7555 using JP1.x software so I know the actual codes that each button generates, and each generates only one. The rocker Up button generates EFC 208/OBC 88, for example. So the modality must be a property of the driver. I could understand this if it were Windows only, but OpenELEC too? I think I need to do some low-level remote debugging.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="quartermain, post: 1079968, member: 147791"] I also have this remote - I'm confused as to whether it is a "Microsoft Remote" or an "MCE Remote" - the XBMC Wiki article "Using an MCE Remote in XBMC" says they are different. The IRRC would seem to be a Microsoft Remote since the supplied manual says it uses RC-6 format and refers to eHome drivers. However Device Manager on my Win8.1 system does not show "eHome" anywhere. In Human Interface Devices I see two instances of "HID-compliant consumer control device" - I'm guessing one is the IRRC and one is the remote sensor on my TBS 6285 TVB-T2 card. So is the IRRC Microsoft or is it MCE? Another weird thing about this is that it is modal. Many buttons have two functions, the manual lists these as Mode 1 and Mode 2. The red button switches to Mode 1, the blue button to Mode 2. This is borne out in practice, at least in Windows. In Mode 1 the up/down/left/right rocker does the same thing as the up/down/left/right keys on the keyboard, but in Mode 2 these buttons move the mouse. In OpenELEC Mode 1 causes the buttons to emulate the up/down/left/right keys, but in Mode 2 nothing happens. Even weirder, I am conviced that the remote itself isn't modal. I've cloned it on to a URC-7555 using JP1.x software so I know the actual codes that each button generates, and each generates only one. The rocker Up button generates EFC 208/OBC 88, for example. So the modality must be a property of the driver. I could understand this if it were Windows only, but OpenELEC too? I think I need to do some low-level remote debugging. [/QUOTE]

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