Start GBPVR w/ Hauppauge IR remote?

[skoodog]

This may be not so much a GB-PVR issue as much as a Hauppauge issue - I want to load GB-PVR by hitting the Power button on my Hauppauge remote. Is there something that can do this? I searched the forums real quick for something but came up empty.

[Ted the Penguin]

edit your irremote.ini file in the default section to launch GBPVR when the powerbutton is hit. search the internet for irremote.ini file editing

EDIT: yeah what he says, I dont have my main machine here to look at what the command is

[gEd]

In the [default] section add

GRNPOWER={run(c:\Progra~1\devnz\gbpvr\GBPVR.exe)}

[dgeezer]

I was going to say,"Oh, just press the red button on your remote and it will bring up GBpvr." Then I wondered why no one else said this.

I looked at the irremote.ini and found that I had added this feature without even knowing it. I wrote a one line autoit script to start GBpvr and compiled it as WinTV2K.exe and replaced the original file in the winTV directory with this one. Now if I press the Go button on the remote it brings up the Hauppauge menu and the first selection takes you to GBpvr but also the red button which is supposed to start wintv2k also starts GBpvr.

I always assumed that the red button had always started GBpvr from windows and that I just had never happened upon it. I didn't know about editting the irremote.ini until after I had come up with this workaround.

Now, what I would like is for the green power button to take the computer into and out of standby mode.

[agidius]

I dont think it even receives signals while in standby.

[dgeezer]

I think that you are right about it not recieving while in standby.

[sdhotwn]

Is the deal the same if you want the green "MCE" button on an MCE remote to boot GBPVR?

[Ton]

On the same note, I use a AutoIt script from pBS (that I tweaked a little bit)...

It:

- Checks if GBPVR is running, if not, it starts it and ends
- If GBPVR is running, but not the active window, it activates it, then ends
- If GBPVR is running AND active, it send the "F7" key to GBPVR.

I then mapped this to the Green button on the MCE remote (using HIP). I have left GBPVR to handle the "normal" MCE keys, but just remapped the extra keys I wanted (DVD to Video Library, Green button to the script above and Power off (PC) to my little "check recording/MVP before shutdown" batch-file).

For those interested, I have inncluded the script and binary in this zip....

[Ton]

Okay, I've just finished my rig, so I currently know a little bit about remotes and standby / wake-up.

To get a computer into standby using the remote is not a big deal... Just remap the button to a batch file that does something like this:

Code:

@echo off
Rem * Check MVP's
FOR %%A IN (6 7 8 9) DO (
netstat -an|find ":590%%A"|find /i "establ" > NUL
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 goto nohibernatempv
)

Rem * Check recording in progress
c:\gbpvr\gbpvr\gbpvrcli.exe /inp 1 /mes "{Status}" | find /i "in progres"
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 goto nohibernaterec

:hibernate
echo %date% %time% Hibernate is possible. >> c:\cron\hibernate.log
rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState
goto end

:nohibernaterec
echo %date% %time% something is being recorded. Will not suspend or hibernate. >> c:\cron\hibernate.log
goto end

:nohibernatempv
echo %date% %time% some MVP is connected. Will not suspend or hibernate. >> c:\cron\hibernate.log
goto end

:end
exit

To get it to wake up is anothet matter.... You need:

1. An IR-receiver that supports wake-up (pretty sure the Hauppauge's don't)
2. Configure your motherboard to supply 5V to the USB port when in standby
3. Apply a registry-hack
4. Configure the IR-receiver to "allow wake-up from standby"

If you have an MCE-remote, and a motherboard that supports it, it can be done (works very well for me).

They have some great articles at "thegreenbutton.com".

[bckappen]

Awesome!!! A ton of thanks to Ton!!