Weird IR Blaster/HIP Problem

[zed]

At least it seems weird to me...

I've been using an MCE blaster driven by Hip for quite a while with no issues. A week or so ago I started using this machine to act as the server for my MVP boxes. I set up config to start 3 instances of the MVP server. It worked fine but I started getting that window with the 'This is the MVP server process...' message. Based on some advice I found here the forums, I unset the 'Allow service to interact with desktop' box for the GB-PVR Recording service and that stopped the window. However, it also seems to have affected the IR blaster somehow. It would work fine if I selected a program in the guide and clicked on Watch...it would change the channel just fine. However, it would not change the channel for a recording. I went in and re-set the 'Allow service...' box for the recording server and now the blaster works fine again...but I get the MVP window.

Has anyone seen this before? Is there something I need to set in Hip? Any other ideas? For now I've turned off the MVP servers but I'd like to be able to run both.

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Based on some advice I found here the forums, I unset the 'Allow service to interact with desktop' box for the GB-PVR Recording service and that stopped the window. However, it also seems to have affected the IR blaster somehow. It would work fine if I selected a program in the guide and clicked on Watch...it would change the channel just fine. However, it would not change the channel for a recording. I went in and re-set the 'Allow service...' box for the recording server and now the blaster works fine again...but I get the MVP window.

This will be because HIP is using the clipboard (WM_COPYDATA message) to transfer data between processes. This only works when the 'Allow service...' setting is set.

You might need to try asking the author of HIP to provide a version that does not need two components to be in the same windows session.

[zed]

OK...that makes sense...

Thanks for the quick answer.