[Jackie78]

Hi,

as many other users, I do own a VCR-1100 remote control, which basically works, but I cannot get some things to work correctly.

1.) Volume Up, Down, Mute do not work at all in XBMC. I tried configuring the following:
<key id="61615">VolumeUp(ShutdownMenu)</key>
<key id="61614">VolumeDown(ShutdownMenu)</key>
and
<volume_up>VolumeUp</volume_up>
<volume_mute>Mute</volume_mute>
<volume_down>VolumeDown</volume_down>

None of these actually do work.


2.) The Power Button does not work either. I read in another posting that this keymap should work, but it doesn't, instead, it always hibernates my computer instead of doing what I expect it to.
<key id="61599">XBMC.ActivateWindow(ShutdownMenu)</key>


3.) The Sart-Button defaults to Microsoft Mediacenter, any way to fix this?


4.) Do oyu have any idea how to start XBMC using this remote in Windows 7?

[EngineerPeter]

I have this problem as well, so I'd be interested to hear of any solutions.

Tonight / this weekend, I was intending to try LMremote. outwardly it appears to have support, but not tried properly yet. I'll post results when i've tried it

[saitoh183]

I have this remote and most of my buttons work.

Have a look here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=VRC-1100

Also for the Explorer button (complete top left) you need to configure it appcommand.xml (create a file and put it in your keymap folder) and add whatever command to the following key:

I have "info" programmed

Code:

<keymap>
  <global>
    <appcommand>
          <browser_home>info</browser_home>
    </appcommand>
  </global>
</keymap>

To change the Start button to launch XBMC , i used this http://inchoatethoughts.com/launching-xb...ter-remote

To help me configure the buttons i used ShowKey . Start it and just press a key and it will tell you what the command is for the key, then all you have to do is configure it in your Keyboard.xml or appcommand.xml.

Hope that helps

[Jackie78]

I also used Showkey to get the mappings of volume Up and Down, and entered them in my keyboard.xml, but they do not work. This is what Showkey got me:

<key id="61615">VolumeUp</key>

But it is not working.

Which entry do you use?

How have you configured the power button?


The start Button thing worked very well, however, I had to fix the following: portable mode did not work until I copied the xbmcargs.txt file to c:\windows\ehome, because the application searches for this file in this working directory, it will not find it in the default directory c:\program files (x86) where the installer puts it, at least unter Win7 x64. I hope this can be fixed some time by searching in the right directory.

[saitoh183]

did you try putting it in the appcommand.xml file, like i said above?

[Jackie78]

Volume now works in appcomand.xml, thanks for that tipp.

Did you happen to also make the power button work? I tried entering:

<key id="61599">XBMC.ActivateWindow(ShutdownMenu)</key>

but it still hibernates when I press the power button

[baijuxavior]

Is this an mce remote control based on ehome drivers? If so you can my use my AdvancedMCERemoteMapper tool to configure the buttons. Set the power button to 'S'.

[Jackie78]

No, as you can see from the Wiki entry, this is not an ehome device. Any idea how to program the power button?

[baijuxavior]

Try eventghost. Add the plugin 'auvisio VRC-1100 Ro'.

[Jackie78]

Well, I have upgraded to Windows 8, and my remote (yes, the same one) now behaves completely different: The volume-keys don't show any key id anymore using showkey, instead they seem to alter the system volume directly (I can see an onscreen display form Windows 7 when changing the volume). That is not what I want, I want to change the XBMC volume insteadm how can I do that?