What is everyone's favorite remote for Media Portal? (1 Viewer)

[burdell1]

I am planning on buying one soon, but was wondering which one is other people's favorites since I really haven't started looking at them yet.

 

[Taipan]

The Australian (some call it "European") version of the MCE Remote - the one with the extra 4 coloured Teletext buttons....works beautifully....

 

[warney23]

I use imon ipad mainly because it came with my silverstone case, configuration was ok with the help of the .imo files on these forums
The pad part of the remote is a bit clumsy but other than that its great.

 

[Marcusb]

the "Australian" MCE remote is the best. It works straight out of the box, comes with two IR emitters to control other IR components and is back lit. All for only around $70 AU

There are many other threads about this. If you do a search you'll see that the MCE seems to have the most user votes.


The only downside is that very rarely (once a year or so) it will crash and need to be reset, but hey, it is made by MS so what can you expect (seriously, I'm not making that up).

 

[Callifo]

The only downside is that very rarely (once a year or so) it will crash and need to be reset

Dont let that put you off though, Ive had mine over 2 years and never had that happen (as far as I remember Ive yet to change the batteries).

 

[Efros]

Snapstream firefly, purely because it works (very important) is easily configurable, and my MP box is in the basement some 12 feet and 1 floor down from my couch! It also came bundled with a diamond Xtreme TV card which is also pretty good.

 

[Hildebrandt]

interesting... I'm considering buying new remote - the iMon that was bundled with VFD is a b**** to configure/get to work with MP... Considering firefly - this works "out of the box"???

 

[Efros]

pretty much if you need a profile for it I have a slightly customized one I can post.

 

[Hildebrandt]

pretty much if you need a profile for it I have a slightly customized one I can post.

That would be awesome... Customized how?

 

[Efros]

Assigning the firefly button for the MP homepage instead of beyond media, the ABCD buttons all have stuff, the C button is context menu, A button is TV, B button is TVGuide using mykeys, C button is the context menu I changed in MP to f12 cos of a conflict with WMP in Mymusic and generating playlists, D button is Aspect ratio,. DVD button is MyMovies, Video is Weather (??), Music is My Music. Any here is the profile save it as
MediaPortal-0.0.0.12.xml in the firefly profiles menu which is usually in the "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SnapStream\Firefly\Profiles" directory

<Profile Type="SnapStream.Firefly.Core.Profile" Name="Media Portal" ShowOSD="false">
<Identifier WindowText="MediaPortal" FileName="MediaPortal.exe" />
<Actions Button="Number9" Description="9">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="9" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Number8" Description="8">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="8" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Number7" Description="7">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="7" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Number6" Description="6">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="6" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Number5" Description="5">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="5" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Number4" Description="4">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="4" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Number3" Description="3">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="3" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Number2" Description="2">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="2" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Number1" Description="1">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="1" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Number0" Description="0">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="0" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Maximize" Description="Full Screen">
<KeyAction ActivationState="Down" Keys="%{enter}" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="VolumeDown" Description="Volume Down">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="-" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="VolumeUp" Description="Volume Up">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="=" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Right" Description="Right">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="{right}" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Left" Description="Left">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="{left}" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Down" Description="Down">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="{down}" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Up" Description="Up">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="{up}" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="OK" Description="Select">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="{enter}" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Exit" Description="Back">
<KeyAction ActivationState="Down" Keys="{esc}" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Stop" Description="Stop">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="b" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Pause" Description="Play/Pause">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys=" " />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Play" Description="Play/Pause">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys=" " />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Rewind" Description="rewind">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="{F5}" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="FastForward" Description="Fast Forward">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="{F6}" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Menu" Description="Gui/FullScreen">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="x" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Info" Description="OSD">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="y" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="SkipBack" Description="Previous Chapter">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="{F7}" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="SkipForward" Description="Next Chapter">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="{F8}" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Options" Description="Parent Dir">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="u" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="ChannelDown" Description="Next">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="{F7}" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="ChannelUp" Description="Prev">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="{F8}" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="A" Description="TV">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="T" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="C" Description="Show contextmenu">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="{F12}" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="B" Description="Show guide">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="g" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="D" Description="Zoom">
<KeyAction ActivationState="Down" Keys="s" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Video" Description="Weather">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="w" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="DVD" Description="My Movies">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="o" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Photos" Description="My Pictures">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="k" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Music" Description="My Music">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="i" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="Firefly" Description="Main Menu">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="{esc}{esc}{esc}{esc}" />
</Actions>
<Actions Button="ChannelEnter" Description="Enter">
<KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="{enter}" />
</Actions>
</Profile>