Volume, Mute, IR Server Suite and Windows 7 (1 Viewer)

[NickName]

Hi,

I have an external surround sound amplifier that is driven via my MCE remote and IR Server Suite. As this is an external device, IR Server Suite passes on remote presses to it via one of the LED cables cables that connect to the MCE receiver.
I recently rebuilt my HTPC but I now remember I had to "adjust" Windows 7 as the Volume and Mute buttons on my MCE remote were not being picked up IR Server Suite. I know it took me a lot of googling to find the answer and I think it involved enabling or disabling a Windows 7 policy.
From memory it's because Windows 7 has a Mediacentre built in and grabs the key presses for that. I know I have to change a setting somewhere and was hoping someone could tell me which setting it is as this will save me many days of googling (again).
This problem has nothing to do with remapping the remotes buttons. I had this working perfectly under XP and then Windows 7 but only Windows 7 required the mod to stop it hogging the keypresses

Thanks in advance,

Nick Name

 

[NickName]

Update!
Well I found part of the problem but haven't fully fixed it yet.
Basically it's the ehome keyboards that appear in the device manager. The take all remote control inputs and pass them on as keypresses. I can delete them but they come back after reboot.
The next trick is to remove all sections that start with ; \keyboard from the mceir.inf file.
Last time this was all that was required to fix it but it still is not working (and the ehome keyboards are still coming back).

Any ideas anyone? (Please)

 

[NickName]

Ok, I have solved it.
I made a mistake in the INF file name I quoted in my last post. So ignore that post and follow these easy steps.
The file to edit is called hidir.inf
Make a copy of the this file.
Now edit hidir.inf by looking for sections that start with
; \keyboard
and delete that whole section. There will be about 3 sections to delete. Save and close the file.

Load "regedit.exe" and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57da

To make sure you can undo the changes shouild you need to (I never have) you should export the key to a reg file.

Then delete the keys from "CodeSetNum0" to "CodeSetNum3".

Once the registry has been changed you will 'may' need to reboot for the change to take effect.

Good luck.

I am now a happy camper as I now have my external amplifier being controlled by my remote again.

Nick Name