Vista Remote In Xp Working!!! (1 Viewer)

[crazyfool]

Just thought i'd share this in case someone wanted to do this...
Basically I currently own 4 remotes 2 for vista, 1 for xp and a harmony 525. Neither of the vista ir receivers worked under xp so i bought an unofficial xp one which turns out to use different commands and therefore can't be controlled by an application such as intelliremote which i am using for media portal. After a bit of research i found a thread on the green button which helped me solve the issue and get a vista ir receiver installed and working in xp.
This is the thread: The Green Button - Vista Infrared receiver on Windows XP?
The gist of it is get the ir receivers hardware id from Computer Management (right click my computer, manage)
Create an entry for your remote in the irbus.inf file in C:\WINDOWS\inf. So for example all i did was copy an existing entry such as this:
%USB\VID_045E&PID_006D.DeviceDesc%=IrBus_V2, USB\VID_045E&PID_006D ; Microsoft Remote
And replace the last part with my ir recievers id:
%USB\VID_045E&PID_006D.DeviceDesc%=IrBus_V2, USB\VID_1784&PID_0006 ; VMC
After that i unplugged my reciever, plugged it back in and installed the driver automatically and it works great... maybe this can help someone else out...

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Added to my bookmarks, useful information, especially as it looks like the mce2005 remote has now stopped being produced.

 

[crazyfool]

yeh thats the reason i was tryin this because i couldn't find a mce one anywhere

 

[OnkelChris]

Thanks, that was the information I was looking for. My Philips SRM5100 will arrive today

I read the post on "The Green Button". If I'm getting it right, then you have to add the line mentionen in the [MicrosoftHw] part AND another one under [ControlFlags]?!
Will try it this evening

 

[OnkelChris]

u need to edit both lines...

but i do need eventghost and messageplugin because not every button is mapped right to MediaPortal...

 

[Spragleknas]

Moved it to the correct section, which is "tips and tricks"

 

[MadMagpie]

I have this remote, works fine with XP pro sp3 for me.
Hauppauge Computer Works Online Store- Hardware

hope it helps

 

[meq123]

Also vendor selling MCE remotes on eBay (from China). See: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/newcomers-forum-240/best-ir-receiver-use-67858/#post486511