Hi, having problems setting up your HIP installation? double key presses with MCE remote? don't want to install a strange driver? no problem..not needed..
Well, it's not as hard as it used to be, no alternate drivers needed, no double presses anymore either...
You can have any remote you wish, or just use the MCE remote if you have one..
all MCE remotes can be set as remote #1,#2,etc. and you can tell windows to only respond to remotes with that number setup...HIP will see all of them regardless of that setting..WIndows' defaults are to listen to id#1, and all remotes come setup as id#1
There are 2 methods for disassociating a MCE remote with MCE, do either #1 or #2 below...
[when using a non-MCE remote, just skip to setting up HIP]
#1. Run this command...
as long as there's no CodeSetNum# with a value of 1 or 0 you're good to go..
if your remote itself is still set to id#1, you're all set...continue to hip setup..
Hip will learn codes from any remote including MCE ones and not send double keys..
To undo reg setting, just set back to '1' or '0'
Or, if you want to use 2 MCE remotes in same room, change the remote's id's:
#2. To set your MCE remote to a different remote id# :
"Press and hold the DVD Menu key on the remote then press a number button (1-8) for 5 seconds. Remotes with visible LED signal indicators will blink twice to confirm the change. "
Now your remote has the ID# of the number button you pressed after dvdmenu...
Windows default is set to respond to id#1, so so now it won't use your remote for MCE operation, but it's still available to HIP...as long as you don't set it for id#1 windows will ignore it and hip will have full use of it..
you'll have to 're-learn' the codes in HIP as they are now changed!
[the signals the remote sends out are different]
As long as your remote id# and windows remote id# are different, you're set...windows will ignore it.[but not HIP]
Pictures and brief HIP setup to follow...
just flushing out some layout here before adding to wiki..
works with vista supposedly too..
still have to check out mce dongles on win7.
I need a Vista user with mce dongle to test...
Well, it's not as hard as it used to be, no alternate drivers needed, no double presses anymore either...
You can have any remote you wish, or just use the MCE remote if you have one..
all MCE remotes can be set as remote #1,#2,etc. and you can tell windows to only respond to remotes with that number setup...HIP will see all of them regardless of that setting..WIndows' defaults are to listen to id#1, and all remotes come setup as id#1
There are 2 methods for disassociating a MCE remote with MCE, do either #1 or #2 below...
[when using a non-MCE remote, just skip to setting up HIP]
#1. Run this command...
Code:
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57da" /v "CodeSetNum0" /t REG_DWORD /d "2" /f
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57da" /v "CodeSetNum1" /t REG_DWORD /d "2" /f
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57da" /v "CodeSetNum2" /t REG_DWORD /d "2" /f
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57da" /v "CodeSetNum3" /t REG_DWORD /d "2" /fif your remote itself is still set to id#1, you're all set...continue to hip setup..
Hip will learn codes from any remote including MCE ones and not send double keys..
To undo reg setting, just set back to '1' or '0'
Or, if you want to use 2 MCE remotes in same room, change the remote's id's:
#2. To set your MCE remote to a different remote id# :
"Press and hold the DVD Menu key on the remote then press a number button (1-8) for 5 seconds. Remotes with visible LED signal indicators will blink twice to confirm the change. "
Now your remote has the ID# of the number button you pressed after dvdmenu...
Windows default is set to respond to id#1, so so now it won't use your remote for MCE operation, but it's still available to HIP...as long as you don't set it for id#1 windows will ignore it and hip will have full use of it..
you'll have to 're-learn' the codes in HIP as they are now changed!
[the signals the remote sends out are different]
As long as your remote id# and windows remote id# are different, you're set...windows will ignore it.[but not HIP]
Pictures and brief HIP setup to follow...
just flushing out some layout here before adding to wiki..
works with vista supposedly too..
still have to check out mce dongles on win7.
I need a Vista user with mce dongle to test...
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