Using HIP

[stangdaman]

Let me start by saying I've never had a need to use this. I use the Hauppauge MCE remote and the default settings for it within GBPVR have always worked for me but I'm considering trying to use something like HIP if I can program some more complex tasks into it. My main reason is trying to eliminate the use of the keyboard altogether for some tasks. Not a problem for me but some members of the family find this difficult. I know I've read that you can use HIP to utilize the Green Button on the MCE remote to launch PVRX2 now would it be possible to program buttons to close it or to open other programs?

I would like to be able to program the remote to hit one button to open PVRX2, one to close it and one to open PowerDVD so that if someone wants to watch a Blue Ray movie the only need to hit one or two buttons to do that. I just don't know if this is something you can do. If it has to only be controled by GBPVR so if you were to close it it would not be able to open another program. Anything like this.

One other question, sorry, if I use this software to do all of this. Can I just set some options for a couple buttons and keep the rest the same or do I have to remap the entire remote?

[stustunz]

i use a mce remote with hip
i have a custom task for power dvd and winamp. (note custom task will not work with FSE as renderer)
you can open power dvd (or any program)and close it with the remote
to close map the back button to alt+f4 in hip to close or use killtask.bat

[dark_half]

You should be able to use HIP or IR Server Suite to achieve just about anything you want to accomplish from the remote. You can have buttons map to start/close gbpvr or run batch files or macros to do multiples things with a single key press. I prefer IR Server since moving to Vista.