Win How to enable Windows 8 Modern UI remote control apps on same machine as XBMC
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My setup might not be so common (yet). But with touch screen monitors getting cheaper and better others might run into the same problem I faced yesterday. I was trying to set up a Modern UI/ Metro app from the Windows store, in order to control XBMC running on the same machine.

What I was trying to do:

I have a Win8.1 machine running XBMC and a few portable instances of MediaMonkey (with MonkeyTunes installed on one of them). I want to control all these with several Win 8 apps (still testing which suits my needs best) on a second monitor (XBMC is running on the big screen and the MediaMonkeys should run in the background or even in another session on that machine.

Since I also own a Surface RT and all apps are working fine there, I assumed it shouldn’t be any problem to control XBMC and MM via Win8 apps running on the same machine. But this is not possible and reading up on the internet I roughly understood why (The Win8 apps run in a sandbox and none of the ususal communicatin channels like loopback etc, are there by design).

The solution(s):

In this thread http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=143709 Abdruggi pointed to this MSDN article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...80593.aspx
I had read that article, but to be perfectly honest I was sloppy and didn’t understand enough of it to apply the solution myself. Especially their reference “Loopback is permitted only for development purposes” threw me off, but then that’s exactly what they intended I guess ;-)

Guillaume Leborgne, from the Win8 app XBMCCommander, helped my by giving me the correct syntax to enable loopback for his app. For XBMCCommander, you will need to run this :

CheckNetIsolation.exe LoopbackExempt /a /n=MCNEXT.XBMCCommander_ptt4xv5hcsz3a

The MSDN article explained how to find the monikers for each Win8 app, so that I could "free" all necessary remote control apps.

Fredrik Zetterlund of XBMC RT Remote then pointed my to this even easier solution: http://loopback.codeplex.com/

I am happy now and wanted to thank those guys who helped me and posted this, in case anybody else ran into the same problem.
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