Windows 7 and MCE Remote (1 Viewer)

[Melloware]

I am hoping the Mediaportal community can help me. Many of my users have upgraded to Windows 7 using the MCE Remote with the standard MS Driver and NOT the replacement driver.

In the past with XP and Vista if you edited the registry and removed HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57da and deleted from "CodeSetNum0" to "CodeSetNum3" it would disable the default MS behavior with the remote. Thus removing the "Double Button Push" affect of having both EG and MS fire events for the same remote button.

Well, apparently in Windows 7 if you delete those registry keys then other applications like Mediaportal or EG that listen for the HID signals from the remote no longer see those HID Signals. I have had it suggested to Run As Administrator but that also does not appear to work.

Is anyone else having this issue or have any suggestions to get the MS remote to work in Windows 7? Any help or thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[chefkoch]

I am hoping the Mediaportal community can help me. Many of my users have upgraded to Windows 7 using the MCE Remote with the standard MS Driver and NOT the replacement driver.

In the past with XP and Vista if you edited the registry and removed HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57da and deleted from "CodeSetNum0" to "CodeSetNum3" it would disable the default MS behavior with the remote. Thus removing the "Double Button Push" affect of having both EG and MS fire events for the same remote button.

Well, apparently in Windows 7 if you delete those registry keys then other applications like Mediaportal or EG that listen for the HID signals from the remote no longer see those HID Signals. I have had it suggested to Run As Administrator but that also does not appear to work.

Is anyone else having this issue or have any suggestions to get the MS remote to work in Windows 7? Any help or thoughts would be appreciated.

MCE remote support on Win7 will be fixed with MediaPortal 1.1.0.

regards
chefkoch

 

[Melloware]

MCE remote support on Win7 will be fixed with MediaPortal 1.1.0.

regards
chefkoch

I guess my question is HOW will it be fixed. If you don't do anything then you can pick up the HID signals for MediaPortal to act on but then the Green Button will still launch MCE. The only way to disable both MediaPortal and Windows from acting on MCE remote button pushes was to delete those registry entries?

 

[chefkoch]

MCE remote support on Win7 will be fixed with MediaPortal 1.1.0.

regards
chefkoch

I guess my question is HOW will it be fixed. If you don't do anything then you can pick up the HID signals for MediaPortal to act on but then the Green Button will still launch MCE. The only way to disable both MediaPortal and Windows from acting on MCE remote button pushes was to delete those registry entries?

What is fixed is simply the support itself, so that mp reacts again on mce ir signals.

But the behaviour of the green button stays as it always have been in win7/vista/xp.

So you can use IRSS' Tray Launcher to lunch mp isntead of mce or maybe mptray or whatever, but this won't be done by mp itself, irrc.

regards
chefkoch