[japh]

Hi everyone. I've searched around and found a lot of information about getting XBMC to work smoothly with a Harmony remote. Here's what I'm using:

- Acer Aspire Revo R3610 running Windows 7 Premium
- Mediagate GP-IR02BK remote with MCE RC6 IR Receiver
- Harmony 550 remote

What I've read is that you have to setup the Harmony Remote to act as an MCE Keyboard. I've done that, however I still have some confusion.

Does anybody out there have a keyboard map and also how they've mapped their Harmony I could see? I'm just confused as to how I should be mapping everything out. Also, I would like it so that Windows Media Center does not come up at all (it tends to fire up when I press certain buttons on the Harmony 550 now).

Thanks for any/all help!

[jhsrennie]

The Mediagate is compatible with the official Microsoft remote so see http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Usi...in_Windows for how to get it working with XBMC. You'll need to use a recent nightly build of XBMC from http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/win32/ to get all the buttons working as some send control/shift keypresses.

Once you've got the Mediagate handset working you should find the Harmony MCE emulation will work as well.

JR

[japh]

Thanks!

So... just so I have it right.

• Backup my registry key
  
• Import Remote-Sendkeys.reg
  
• Reboot
  
• Mediagate should work at this point?
  

I'm assuming I also have to enable the "Remote sends keyboard presses" or whatever that option is called in XBMC as well?

Do I have to update any keyboard.xml maps?

Thanks again for any/all help.

[jhsrennie]

Yes, though note that you need to be running one of the recent nightly builds as the release v9.11 doesn't have support for key modifiers.

You don't need to change "Remote sends keyboard presses". XBMC just sees a keypress and treats it as if it had come from the keyboard.

The nightly builds already have keymaps that supports the basic MCE keystrokes like ctrl-shift-P for Play. If you grab mceremote.zip from http://xbmcmce.sourceforge.net/ this includes a keyboard.xml that adds support for the extra keys that appear on the Mediagate. You just copy the keyboard.xml to %appdata%\xbmc\userdata\keymaps.

Remote-SendKeys.reg keeps compatability with Windows Media Center. Unless you need this i would use Remote-XBMC.reg as this has been tweaked for XBMC.

JR