IR commands

[idkpmiller]

I recall much mucking around with drivers in the past, I am not finished investigating I would really like to understand what was happening as it may be something I take advantage of :-D

[stustunz]

have a look in device manager /usb controllers /
look for mce driver (hip)
or it will be ehome original
if the hip driver is installed nothing out side of hip should work as you remote will only control what hip wants it to
if the ehome one is loaded you can end up with double hits if you have things learned in hip that are the same as the original mce control
im guessing you may have had things selected
if you still have the config file from hip i would be interested to have a look
also need to know what you had under alternate input as this deoesnt get loaded from the config file normally

[idkpmiller]

have a look in device manager /usb controllers /
look for mce driver (hip)
or it will be ehome original
if the hip driver is installed nothing out side of hip should work as you remote will only control what hip wants it to
if the ehome one is loaded you can end up with double hits if you have things learned in hip that are the same as the original mce control
im guessing you may have had things selected
if you still have the config file from hip i would be interested to have a look
also need to know what you had under alternate input as this deoesnt get loaded from the config file normally

First just to explain what I did earlier, I simply used add & remove programs to remove HIP from my PC this had the efect of stopping the strange behaviour that I explained earlier.
Now as I look at what is left of HIP - it appears its all still there!

under usb controllers the driver being used by the ehome device is the original IrBus.sys which I am lead to believe HIP cannot use so I suspect all the add & remove programs does is change the driver and stop HIP being called at startup.

as for the config file, I am assumming the file called "LASTFILE.TXT" actually holds the name of the last config file I was using? if thats the case then the file I have attached is the config file I was using at the time.

I would be interested in what you find and if you would like to see other files to try to explain what was going on I can post you a directory listing if that would help.

Thanks

[idkpmiller]

This is quite interesting it seems that the original IrBus.sys is far more capable than people have previously thought!

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mce-re...ete-29024/

[stustunz]

i never bothered loading the hip replacement driver even though on the wiki it says you have to to get the blaster working i found this untrue
i havent even modified the registry
i have Hip on three machines and as long as i dont fiddle the remotes never fail

did you have anything loaded under alternate input ?
the file you sent me is the one i wanted but for some reason hip doesnt save the alternate input into that file

[idkpmiller]

could you give me an example of what the line for an alternative would look like?
I dont have HIP running on the PC at the moment and I am expecting to "play" with it tommorrow so would rather not start HIP up at the moment.

Cheers

[EDIT]
I cant be certain but looking at that file I would think that from the two keys defined below:

VOL+|31727=Vol+ ^x&{F10}
VOL-|31726=Vol- ^z&{F9}

that the main keys are ^x and ^z with the alternative F10 and F9

That seems to ring a bell as the alternatives I think I put there at one stage for WMP control.

[idkpmiller]

Hsaving looked a little closer what I think is interesting is that the "clear" button is not specified in the HIP configuration.

Now the clear button was sending an ESC the same as the "back" button so something was telling it what to send but not it would seem HIP

here is the only place I could find the clear button mentioned

File: Hip.key
====================

MCE=HINTERFACE
Remote=HREMOTE
31715=#
31714=*
31743=0
31742=1
31741=2
31740=3
31739=4
31738=5
31737=6
31736=7
31735=8
31734=9
31649=BLUE
31725=CH+
31724=CH-
31733=CLEAR
31707=DVD
31732=ENTER
31723=FF
31651=GREEN
31705=GUIDE
31728=INFO
31729=MUTE
31719=PAUSE
31731=PC
31721=PLAY
31720=RECORD
31652=RED
31722=REW
31730=START
31718=STOP
31653=TELETEXT
31717=TRACK+
31716=TRACK-
31706=TV_LIVE
31671=TV_REC
31727=VOL+
31726=VOL-
31650=YELLOW
31642=TV
31711=LEFT
31709=OK
31710=RIGHT
31713=UP
31712=DOWN
31708=BACK

[stustunz]

the alternate input is in hip preferences
its used for system wide keys so you dont have to have focus on the particular program you are using
ie if you wanted the volume to work no matter what program you were controlling

[idkpmiller]

the alternate input is in hip preferences
its used for system wide keys so you dont have to have focus on the particular program you are using
ie if you wanted the volume to work no matter what program you were controlling

I now understand which alternative you mean now, and AFAIK I never configured this.

To get Gamezone to respond to a remote key press when an emulator was running as the front focused app, I used to select a rarely used keyboard key, my favourite was the DECIMAL on the number pad and listen in on_keydown for that, if gamezone became focused and it had launched an emulator it killed the emulator process, it worked really well like that.
I never used global keys as I figured that would mean the emulators would all need to use the same key combo's which they dont; or I would need to add a different spplication in HIP for every emulator far too much work.

I am currently investigation IP Server Suite for possible integration.

[stustunz]

i just have the red button mapped to the master key then i can change what is been controlled
i dont really understand what you are trying to acheive but as long as you do thats the main thing