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i really hope that someday this will be officially a feature of xbmc, because xbmc IS a Media Center and a media center SHOULD be controlled by remote. Thanks for your work, jhsrennie!
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spiff
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@ jhsrennie; feel free to ignore. but we would really appreciate if you made the build from the tag.
@ sergiocos; it will be added "properly" after camelot.
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Do we have the source for it?
Adding remote support isn't that easy on win32 as every remote uses it's own api and MS isn't nice to us. Therefore a lot of supplemental tools are there to come around the problem. XBMC supports the IR server suite which itself supports a lot of remotes.
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@spiff:
>we would really appreciate if you made the build from the tag
Ah, this is where I have to reveal how little I know about what I'm doing! I just checked out the source, made the (very minor) changes, pressed F7 and made a cup of tea. If I should be doing more please let me know. If you want to mail me off forum use john.rennie at ratsauce.co.uk.
@Wiso: the modified source is in the download, but we won't be adding it to the official Camelot as a far more elegant solution has already been proposed for the next version (Dungeness?). I'll make it available as a special build for the few people who want to use it. It's a ridiculously trivial change!
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2009-11-09, 22:59
(This post was last modified: 2009-11-09, 23:08 by needtotest.)
Argh come on - How much do one have to beg to get this in the builds now?
(if it is so simple and does not break anything ... of course)
/needtotest
...never mind I can wait ... but I am very much looking forward to kicking eventghost out the door.
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@needtotest: putting my code in now will make life harder when the proper solution is built in. However I'll continue to update my modified version at each test (i.e. alpha or beta) release and when Camelot is officially released.
JR
. I'm looking forward to the more elegant solution being implemented in the next release, but until then, this is great. And it certainly beats EventGhost or IRSS workarounds in terms of simplicity. I have a harmony remote so this solution lets me set it up to control both XBMC and windows 7 media center (using the standard keys as an MCE keyboard).
