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Ok, I will throw in my two pennies as I have recently just replaced one of my old Xbox's for an HTPC.
I have the Asrock ION 330 but didn't like the Media Remote and didn't even want to worry about Eventghost or similar running on my system. The HTPC generally runs at 720p as the system also acts as my file server and link to the Internet.
After about a week of trying different methods I decided to give the XBOX remote idea a go as the original xbox remote does a fantastic job with XBMC on the XBOX.
I didn't want to break my XBOX IR dongle as I still have another xbox in house and gives me a backup incase my other IR dongle goes wrong.
So:
Making USB dongle.
- I removed one of the gameport pairs from my decomissioned xbox. Four ports definately an overkill so they wont be missed.
- Simply chopped up the cable and resoldered to a spare USB cable. Took only a few minutes and very easy soldering.
- Bingo, one xbox-port to USB cable.
Installing the drivers:
- Downloaded the XBCDRC software v0.28 and install as normal.
- Disable the second USB port created - just for safety.
- Setup XBCDRC to run at startup so its always in the task bar.
- Re-define all of the functions through the XBCDRC programm so that it mainly sends keystrokes and also re-assigned number "4" on the remote to perform Ctrl-F6.
- Bingo, Remote control prepped and ready.
XBMC Setup:
- Created a custom Keymapping so that all the controls perform exactly as the XBMC xbox version runs with the remote.
- Place the new file into the userdata\keymaps\keyboard directory.
Ease of Use:
As I do use the HTPC for other things I wanted a simple way to:
- Change the default screen resoloution to 1080p
- Startup XBMC
- When XBMC stop swap the resoloution back to 720p
This was all done by creating a small batch(BAT) file that is set to use the shortcut 'Ctrl-F6' and fire XBMC into action so that XBMC can be started using only the remote.
It took some time to do but the results I feel are superb.
If anyone is interested I can post up all my setup files so you can retain the old xbox-xbmc feel with a very small amount of effort.
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Thanks Chunk, it works better than my eventghost setup. I'm still having a couple problems though.
1. If I'm playing a video and want exit fullscreen by hitting the display button it shows audio offset instead.
I was looking through the settings and noticed that you have Display to act as the "A" key which you programmed to toggle fullscreen in the keyboard.xml file, but it doesn't seem to work for me. It's as if XBMC is ignoring my keyboard.xml file and resorting to default.
2. My arrow presses are still slow (ie. can't press down key quickly) and I can't hold it in to scroll fast. It did fix my unintentional double clicking problem though.
I'm starting to think this is either a hardware problem with the remote, or it's OS specific(Windows 7 32bit). I wish I knew if anyone successfully got the remote to work on Windows 7.
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doeman
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Hey Guys,
As soon as someone finds a solution to the Windows 7 64-bit issue please post. Or if there are new drivers for the dongle....EG has an error that says "Error finding an Xbox IR Receiver".
I haven't gotten past that. Thanks in advance.
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I'm trying to make my computer resume from sleep using the original XBOX remote controller. I'm using Windows 7 x86. Someone did it before?
Thanks!
NaBz