2010-12-05, 04:11
Back to Win7 and XBMC is working a charm with the remote and my keymap. The range is ridiculous, I went on the other side of the house and down a floor into the basement and it still worked.
The remote brings it out of sleep just fine, but now I'm having the sleep problem that others describe where XBMC and Boxee both crap out on resume from sleep. Prolly something to do with the video card as it actually functions, just the graphics and sound are missing.
Loaded up Boxee to try out as a front end to Netflix. Surprisingly, there are a couple places in the UI where the "Menu" button mapping on their own remote is kinda weird and you get stuck. And the Netflix app (and all the other flash based players) are just plain horrible in Boxee. After a while the whole design idea of the Boxee interface starts to make more sense with a remote with just the 2 extra buttons on front, before on PC with keyboard/mouse it seemed like a joke.
I'm going to ditch Boxee for Chrome, just resorting to keep a mouse handy to queue a movie. I'm making an AHK script now to map the remote buttons to something for when Netflix is fullscreen.
I'll also probably make a script that can be launched by hotkey that kills XBMC and Chrome before suspend, and then bring a selection menu to the front upon resume to choose to launch XBMC or Netflix via Chrome.
The remote brings it out of sleep just fine, but now I'm having the sleep problem that others describe where XBMC and Boxee both crap out on resume from sleep. Prolly something to do with the video card as it actually functions, just the graphics and sound are missing.
Loaded up Boxee to try out as a front end to Netflix. Surprisingly, there are a couple places in the UI where the "Menu" button mapping on their own remote is kinda weird and you get stuck. And the Netflix app (and all the other flash based players) are just plain horrible in Boxee. After a while the whole design idea of the Boxee interface starts to make more sense with a remote with just the 2 extra buttons on front, before on PC with keyboard/mouse it seemed like a joke.
I'm going to ditch Boxee for Chrome, just resorting to keep a mouse handy to queue a movie. I'm making an AHK script now to map the remote buttons to something for when Netflix is fullscreen.
I'll also probably make a script that can be launched by hotkey that kills XBMC and Chrome before suspend, and then bring a selection menu to the front upon resume to choose to launch XBMC or Netflix via Chrome.
