HIP Setup Guide (including HIPSend)

[ricklous]

Ive added a page to the Wiki detailing various bits and bobs to do with getting HIP to work with GBPVR, and do the channel-changing with HIPSend.

Intended for people trying to use HIPSend, define their own buttons on the MCE remote or who finds they have got a variation of the MCE remote which doesnt quite match with GBPVRs inbuilt support. The method for teaching hip keystrokes is farily generic too i think so could be helpfull regradless of the remote your using.

Its a bit centric to my setup but i hope it gives anyone setting out with hip a step or two up the steep learning curve.

HIP Guide

[dfdario]

Good job! I was needed

[offrotor]

Thanks alot... very usefull... hipsend now sends for me!!

Cheers!

[David]

I am not quite sure what HIP is. I guess if you have it, you know. It comes with MCE? Is not available otherwise?

You might want to update the wiki with a simple definition.

[ricklous]

Good point!:o

It is software that sits between your remote control and your HTPC software, and translates commands from your remote into commands/keystrokes to either be sent to the HTPC software, or trigger a macro or send commands to an external device using the IR Blasters and so on.

GBPVR already does this internally for the Hauppauge remote and is almost complete with the MCE 2005 remote, but there are several versions of the MCE remote floating around and people have reported the odd one not being fully supported. HIp can apparently be used with a variety of remotes but ive only used the MCE with it.

People have also asked how to redefine what the buttons on the remote do, and HIP allows you to do this.

For example, in 'normal' use, you teach the MCE remote the on/off code from your tv remote so you can switch your tv on/off using the MCE remote, but if your HTPCs sound outputs to an amp you also want to switch off at the same time, you can teach HIP the tv on/off and the amp on/off codes, and send them both when you press the 'tv' button, using one of the MCE blasters on your TV and the other on your amp, resulting in both devices powering on/off from the one button.

Apparently Girder is more advanced (ive never used it), but HIP is freeware, it works on Windows 98/ME/XP/2000 and it lives here

Do the examples make sense? Im not always very good at making sense, but if they are I'll copy this into the wiki.

[David]

Yes, much better.

[ricklous]

ok, added to the wiki

Thanks for everyones comments