Hauppauge MCE 1062 Remote / HIP Config File?

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I certainly didnt read that way. I guess all comes down to what are "main" buttons. In my mind pretty much all the buttons on a remote are the main buttons - certainly the numbers/navigation/enter/channel+-/volume+-/pause/play/skip/record/etc would be main buttons in my book. You need all those. There couple of fringe buttons on the remote that GB-PVR doesnt do anything with (clear & teletext), and I'd consider them 'not the main buttons'.

It doesnt matter though - I've changed it to make you happy

[SLR_65]

Just checked it out -> it's perfectly clear now!

What "customer" service! I couldn't talk ya into going to work for M$, or my bank, or . . .

Seriously though, I think that will help a lot of people when choosing hardware. I know I looked at that several times when I discovered my 1062 remote didn't work so hot and frankly I probably would've just bought an original M$ mce remote and forgone the LM Remote Keymap if I knew all the keys on the mce worked but I didn't because I figured it'd be hard to find one of the version 1 remotes and if I used a version 2 or 2a I thought I'd still have to use some crutch software to make it work completely and if I had to use crutch software anyway I figured I might as well stick with what I had.

[SLR_65]

Back to the original question . . . I like to have lots of solutions to problems just to have on hand in case some conflict, etc. creeps up later (maybe LM Remote Keymap works with GBPVR now, but maybe a future GBPVR or LM Remote Keymap update may break that compatibility, or I install some other program that causes problems, etc.).

Soooooo, does anyone have a HIP profile to share, or has anyone else successfully set this remote up using another program? If so please share your experience!

Thanks!

Steve

[dmanindfw]

Hmmm...I'm really shocked that no one has this remote with a corresponding HIP configuration that I could use. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

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Hmmm...I'm really shocked that no one has this remote with a corresponding HIP configuration that I could use. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

I think most people just use the built in MCE remote support instead. Pretty much the only button that doesnt work is the center green windows button.

[SLR_65]

That's not the case with my 1062 remote - pretty much most of them don't work!

When I get home later I'll turn off LM Remote Keymap and revert back and see exactly what doesn't work, but there were several.

On another note - I came across a 45 key Hauppauge remote. Unfortunately it doesn't work with the 1062 USB ir receiver. It does flash the led on the receiver so it's receiving it, but evidently it doesn't understand the remote commands. Do I take it that editing the irremote.ini would be in order here?

Not that I care, the 1062 remote works fine with the LM remote key map software and I can even make the green windows button launch GBPVR, so I'm not overly motivated to get the 45 key remote figured out and working.

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That's not the case with my 1062 remote - pretty much most of them don't work!

When I get home later I'll turn off LM Remote Keymap and revert back and see exactly what doesn't work, but there were several.

When you're in front of the remote, give me a detailed list of what doesnt seem to work for you, and post some logs showing attempts to use some of these keys and I'll take a look.

On another note - I came across a 45 key Hauppauge remote. Unfortunately it doesn't work with the 1062 USB ir receiver. It does flash the led on the receiver so it's receiving it, but evidently it doesn't understand the remote commands. Do I take it that editing the irremote.ini would be in order here?

I'm pretty sure you cant use the 45 button remote with an MCE receiver. You need to be using one of the retail Hauppauge cards with built in IR Reciever.

[SLR_65]

Great Sub! Will do, though it may be a day or two . . . while I was reloading video drivers and I even reloaded GBPVR trying to eliminate the flicker from the guide screen and a strange problem has crept up - when I change things in the config program it appears to change them and save them and when I look at the config.xml file the changes seem to be there, but when I run GBPVR none of the changes take effect! Doing some searches on the drive I've found some other config.xml files in another directory (they'll be like config(1).xml, etc.) so I'm thinking the program isn't looking at the config.xml that the config program is changing. How that happened I dunno! Like I said, I was playing trying to get rid of the flicker problem.

Anyway, I think to make LM Remote Keymap work correctly I had to switch to Hauppauge for the remote in the config, if so I probably can't change back right now since my changes don't take effect.

I know, send logs, etc. but truthfully it's not worth chasing down - I want to reload with XP instead of Vista anyway to see if it helps with the flicker so since I'm reloading anyway it's not worth chasing this gremlin down.

I'm working overtime tonight and tomorrow night, so I'll probably do the reload on Friday night. When I do I'll do a detailed description of what works and what doesn't.

The Hauppage 45 key remote . . . I ran across some posts on other boards where people seemed to be able to make it work with the M$ usb ir receiver by editing the irremote.ini file. From what I've gathered the Hauppauge ir receiver appears to Windows as a stock M$ ir receiver and loads the same driver, so I was assuming it was just a matter of configuring the the irremote.ini file but I haven't spent any time on it (and, like I said, the ir receiver does flash when I press a key so it is receiving the ir signals). I would gain the four colored keys but lose the green Windows key. Truthfully the 1062 remote works fine for me and with LM Remote Key Map I can tailor it a bit, so I'm not really seeing an advantage to working out the 45 key remote, though I may take up the challenge on one of those long winter nights that's coming up real soon.

On another note - I like to listen to old time radio shows (I have an eye disease so my eyes get tired even though I may not be tired, so it's nice to be entertained without having to watch something). Last night I started listening to a New Zealand radio serial from the 1990's called "Claybourne". They are just 5 or 6 minute episodes, but man they are hard to follow! I hope all you're programming down there isn't that difficult to follow! :eek:

[SLR_65]

Hi Sub,

I reloaded my machine - as I mentioned above, I was running Vista Ultimate and have switched to XP Pro to see if I could get the video flicker problem when displaying the guide page to subside. XP did fix that problem.

Anyway, on to the 1062 remote. When I load Vista Ultimate the remote barely works, pretty much just the up/down/left/right arrows along with the ok button works and that's it.

To my suprise, when I loaded XP Pro up the remote works like a charm!

Unfortunately someone else who loads Vista Ultimate will have to supply the what works and what doesn't and the logs as I've pretty much got things working on XP so I don't think I'll be going back to Vista Ultimate.

TTYL,

Steve

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Hi Sub,

I reloaded my machine - as I mentioned above, I was running Vista Ultimate and have switched to XP Pro to see if I could get the video flicker problem when displaying the guide page to subside. XP did fix that problem.

Anyway, on to the 1062 remote. When I load Vista Ultimate the remote barely works, pretty much just the up/down/left/right arrows along with the ok button works and that's it.

To my suprise, when I loaded XP Pro up the remote works like a charm!

Unfortunately someone else who loads Vista Ultimate will have to supply the what works and what doesn't and the logs as I've pretty much got things working on XP so I don't think I'll be going back to Vista Ultimate.

TTYL,

Steve

I'm not really sure why you had problems with Vista Ultimate. I'm running Vista Ultimate here, and pretty much all the buttons on this remote work fine for me.