2009-01-28, 08:21 AM
@possum:
yeah, that's what I did as well, told GB-PVR I had an MCE remote and used EventGhost where you used Intelliremote, I'm sure both accomplish the same thing. I mapped a few otherwise unrecognized keys.
Recently though I became desperate to map the little 'i' button to bring up the OSD. In XP, the 'i' is received by GB-PVR as the 'Home' key which brings up the main menu with the video playing in an inset window. I hated that. It turns out that sub has hard-coded the home key (along with arrows, enter and escape), and changing the keyappings files has no effect on those keys
(between you and me, if keys are going to be hardcoded, then fine, don't bother with keymappings files... and if you're going to have keymappings files, then let us change ANY key even if it means we screw something up... but it's not my program, sub's way is THE WAY).
The solution (pointed out to me by sub of course) was to disable GB-PVR's mce remote detection by setting the remote type to 'Default - Hauppauge' and then defining all the media buttons myself using EventGhost. Yeah, it was a bit of work, but now my 'i' key results in a ^B which brings up the OSD with program info and the play bar if applicable.
If I recall correctly, in Vista the 'i' key on the remote didn't do anything in GB-PVR so I wouldn't have had that problem, but I had all sorts of other problems in Vista so I went back to XP.
Using EventGhost is probably more work than something like Intelliremote, but it can do so many fun things. For example, I use Hulu.com to watch shows on my TV, and Hulu strictly uses mouse control (same story with Netflix and the Silverlight player). That's not so bad with a Gyration remote of course, but simply pausing the video is still more work than it should be. So I'm going to program EventGhost so that when I press Play or Pause with IE in the foreground, it will move the mouse pointer to the location of the on-screen pause button and click it for me. WAF up one more notch!
As to the weather plugin, the keymappings files do work for that, so originally I just changed the mappings that were pointing to blue and yellow to the skip fwd/back buttons, which gb-pvr sees as 'MediaNextTrack' and 'MediaPreviousTrack'. The problem with changing the keymapping files though is that they get overwritten each time you upgrade gb-pvr. At least I lost mine when I installed 1.3.11 over 1.3.7. I guess now that my 'i' button sends a ^B, which is the same as the hauppauge blue button, I can just use 'i' to cycle forward through the maps and not worry about going back. I find I never actually use the weather plugin though, the information it gets for my area is never accurate or current enough, so it's all moot.
yeah, that's what I did as well, told GB-PVR I had an MCE remote and used EventGhost where you used Intelliremote, I'm sure both accomplish the same thing. I mapped a few otherwise unrecognized keys.
Recently though I became desperate to map the little 'i' button to bring up the OSD. In XP, the 'i' is received by GB-PVR as the 'Home' key which brings up the main menu with the video playing in an inset window. I hated that. It turns out that sub has hard-coded the home key (along with arrows, enter and escape), and changing the keyappings files has no effect on those keys
(between you and me, if keys are going to be hardcoded, then fine, don't bother with keymappings files... and if you're going to have keymappings files, then let us change ANY key even if it means we screw something up... but it's not my program, sub's way is THE WAY).
The solution (pointed out to me by sub of course) was to disable GB-PVR's mce remote detection by setting the remote type to 'Default - Hauppauge' and then defining all the media buttons myself using EventGhost. Yeah, it was a bit of work, but now my 'i' key results in a ^B which brings up the OSD with program info and the play bar if applicable.
If I recall correctly, in Vista the 'i' key on the remote didn't do anything in GB-PVR so I wouldn't have had that problem, but I had all sorts of other problems in Vista so I went back to XP.
Using EventGhost is probably more work than something like Intelliremote, but it can do so many fun things. For example, I use Hulu.com to watch shows on my TV, and Hulu strictly uses mouse control (same story with Netflix and the Silverlight player). That's not so bad with a Gyration remote of course, but simply pausing the video is still more work than it should be. So I'm going to program EventGhost so that when I press Play or Pause with IE in the foreground, it will move the mouse pointer to the location of the on-screen pause button and click it for me. WAF up one more notch!
As to the weather plugin, the keymappings files do work for that, so originally I just changed the mappings that were pointing to blue and yellow to the skip fwd/back buttons, which gb-pvr sees as 'MediaNextTrack' and 'MediaPreviousTrack'. The problem with changing the keymapping files though is that they get overwritten each time you upgrade gb-pvr. At least I lost mine when I installed 1.3.11 over 1.3.7. I guess now that my 'i' button sends a ^B, which is the same as the hauppauge blue button, I can just use 'i' to cycle forward through the maps and not worry about going back. I find I never actually use the weather plugin though, the information it gets for my area is never accurate or current enough, so it's all moot.