Hello All. I really Hope some of you can shed some light for me here. (I have been researching and buying remotes,tablets for OVER 3 weeks) I have a fairly decent home theater that is controlled by my omega 650 remote [I tried pasting a link but the forum wont allow me cause ive not posted 3 posts yet 
If you type Omega 650 Universal remote into google you can see the remote i have] its old now, and i'm looking for a replacement for my HTPC SETUP(all AV equipment INCLUDING HTPC, my lights (x10-products with light switches and dimming remotes- that i learned to my omega 650)
Ok Here's the scoop. I bought this case... [I tried pasting a link but the forum wont allow me cause ive not posted 3 posts yet Model Is Thermaltake DH 202 VJ80011N2Z Digital Home Series HTPC Case with Built-in Media LAB LCD and Remote Controller] Which came with the IMON software and imedian. I uninstalled the Imeadian. because i'm using jriver mediacenter for my theater interface. the remote that comes with it just will not suffice. no backlighting, no ability to learn 6-10 other AV components AND ABOVE ALL I'm not sure what kind of ir they are using in it but i cannot teach its buttons to my omega... none of them will learn, it says they learned (passed) but none of them work? (an issue with there remote? or maybe an issue with there ir thats built into the case? suggestions? ideas?)
so i bought an asus t91mt tablet pc to use as a remote control, i tried realvnc and tight. TO SLOW! also tried it with 1000giga connection TO SLOW! so i returned that. then i bought the logitech dinovo mini. keyboard is to SMALL!
So now here i sit with a logitech dinovo mini im selling on ebay, a imon remote that came with htpc case. and my Trusty omega 650 remote(that conrtols everything and will even pop your popcorn (joke)) but yes pretty much does it all EXCEPT CONTROL the HTPC! So basically i have 3 devices now for home theater. and i want to bring this down to 2 if possible. A HTPC universal Remote for all components and To Control HTPC,and the wireless keyboard i bought for heavy surfing\ ext input
Here is where the list of questions\\wants\\desires comes in to play.
1. I want a all in one remote control. Universal Remote that has backlighting, ability to control upto 12 devices including lights, drapes etc, ability to learn whatever button\
emote i throw at it, ability todo extensive macros, more hard buttons the better! ability for hardbuttons to be taught anything i want to teach them (like i can with the Omega)
2. RF ability
3. ability to use imon software or a similiar software, ive read here people describing uirt, girder, eventghost, imon.... which do you guys suggest? why? best choice for my setup? if you suggest something other then imon. just leave the imon installed for the frontview lcd display purpose?
4. i would like my universal remote to be able to control all aspects of the htpc.. is it possible to control mouse movement or mouse clicks with one of the programs listed above? which one works best? i'd like it to be able to do \\or teach it to do keyboard commands, open programs, turn on sleep timers on jriver etc... meaning i can press a button on the universal remote and it will open firefox for me. i can press another button and it will bring up my music library, my pictures library, my videos library, my weather, my feeds, my utube (you get the drift) the ability to teach universal remote keyboard shortcuts for each application. example when im watching my videos i would like to be able to press a button on remote and it will change the aspect ratio, turn subtitles on or off ( BE REALLLY cool if on universal remote i could edit the keys text like i can on omega 650 (meaning on omega when i choose dvd it brings me to 4 pages of commands ive taught it with custom labels i made for each key on each page. so on my remote when i press dvd it brings up 4 pages with these keys named subtitles, eject, aspect ratio, bookmark etc...) is this possible with a universal remote and htpc apps?
5. the ability on the universal remote to teach it letters?! meaning while im in my jriver theaterview and i chose say movies genres, then show all movies of that genre i could press a button on the universal remote for the letter T and it will bring me to where all the movies that start with the letter T are. I accomplish this now with the imon by pressing a number button for the right letter so if i wanted to goto T's i would press the number button 8 (which is TUV), so it should be possible with the remote\\girder uirt, eventghost you guys suggest?
6. the abilty to wake the sleeping computer from universal remote, like th eimon does.
7. a joystick or similiar type pad on the remote. so that i can move left, right, up, down. or MAYBE EVEN somehow teach it to be a mouse? Not all the time but would be handy while in theaterviews.
8. I have bought myself a smaller wireless keyboard with trackball\\scroller on it for heavy surfing on Big screen. but this will hopefully only be used for heavy surfing\\heavy writing. If possible i'd like to accomplish light writing tasks with the remote.
Well i'll leave it at that until i can think of something else i may need. but i think this sums it up.
So if any of you could be kind enough to throw me some suggestions, tips product model numbers my way it would be greatly appreciated.. i have the htpc now setup and everyone here is itching to be able to use it... so i need to find myself the ultimate htpc remote setup that i can tweak to be simple even for a child to use it. i'm looking for something in the $150 - $300 Dollar Range if it's possible.
Thank you For Your Time And I Hope To Hear Back Soon From All You Professionals Here At AVS.
If you type Omega 650 Universal remote into google you can see the remote i have] its old now, and i'm looking for a replacement for my HTPC SETUP(all AV equipment INCLUDING HTPC, my lights (x10-products with light switches and dimming remotes- that i learned to my omega 650)Ok Here's the scoop. I bought this case... [I tried pasting a link but the forum wont allow me cause ive not posted 3 posts yet
Model Is Thermaltake DH 202 VJ80011N2Z Digital Home Series HTPC Case with Built-in Media LAB LCD and Remote Controller] Which came with the IMON software and imedian. I uninstalled the Imeadian. because i'm using jriver mediacenter for my theater interface. the remote that comes with it just will not suffice. no backlighting, no ability to learn 6-10 other AV components AND ABOVE ALL I'm not sure what kind of ir they are using in it but i cannot teach its buttons to my omega... none of them will learn, it says they learned (passed) but none of them work? (an issue with there remote? or maybe an issue with there ir thats built into the case? suggestions? ideas?)so i bought an asus t91mt tablet pc to use as a remote control, i tried realvnc and tight. TO SLOW! also tried it with 1000giga connection TO SLOW! so i returned that. then i bought the logitech dinovo mini. keyboard is to SMALL!
So now here i sit with a logitech dinovo mini im selling on ebay, a imon remote that came with htpc case. and my Trusty omega 650 remote(that conrtols everything and will even pop your popcorn (joke)) but yes pretty much does it all EXCEPT CONTROL the HTPC! So basically i have 3 devices now for home theater. and i want to bring this down to 2 if possible. A HTPC universal Remote for all components and To Control HTPC,and the wireless keyboard i bought for heavy surfing\ ext input
Here is where the list of questions\\wants\\desires comes in to play.
1. I want a all in one remote control. Universal Remote that has backlighting, ability to control upto 12 devices including lights, drapes etc, ability to learn whatever button\
emote i throw at it, ability todo extensive macros, more hard buttons the better! ability for hardbuttons to be taught anything i want to teach them (like i can with the Omega)
2. RF ability
3. ability to use imon software or a similiar software, ive read here people describing uirt, girder, eventghost, imon.... which do you guys suggest? why? best choice for my setup? if you suggest something other then imon. just leave the imon installed for the frontview lcd display purpose?
4. i would like my universal remote to be able to control all aspects of the htpc.. is it possible to control mouse movement or mouse clicks with one of the programs listed above? which one works best? i'd like it to be able to do \\or teach it to do keyboard commands, open programs, turn on sleep timers on jriver etc... meaning i can press a button on the universal remote and it will open firefox for me. i can press another button and it will bring up my music library, my pictures library, my videos library, my weather, my feeds, my utube (you get the drift) the ability to teach universal remote keyboard shortcuts for each application. example when im watching my videos i would like to be able to press a button on remote and it will change the aspect ratio, turn subtitles on or off ( BE REALLLY cool if on universal remote i could edit the keys text like i can on omega 650 (meaning on omega when i choose dvd it brings me to 4 pages of commands ive taught it with custom labels i made for each key on each page. so on my remote when i press dvd it brings up 4 pages with these keys named subtitles, eject, aspect ratio, bookmark etc...) is this possible with a universal remote and htpc apps?
5. the ability on the universal remote to teach it letters?! meaning while im in my jriver theaterview and i chose say movies genres, then show all movies of that genre i could press a button on the universal remote for the letter T and it will bring me to where all the movies that start with the letter T are. I accomplish this now with the imon by pressing a number button for the right letter so if i wanted to goto T's i would press the number button 8 (which is TUV), so it should be possible with the remote\\girder uirt, eventghost you guys suggest?
6. the abilty to wake the sleeping computer from universal remote, like th eimon does.
7. a joystick or similiar type pad on the remote. so that i can move left, right, up, down. or MAYBE EVEN somehow teach it to be a mouse? Not all the time but would be handy while in theaterviews.
8. I have bought myself a smaller wireless keyboard with trackball\\scroller on it for heavy surfing on Big screen. but this will hopefully only be used for heavy surfing\\heavy writing. If possible i'd like to accomplish light writing tasks with the remote.
Well i'll leave it at that until i can think of something else i may need. but i think this sums it up.
So if any of you could be kind enough to throw me some suggestions, tips product model numbers my way it would be greatly appreciated.. i have the htpc now setup and everyone here is itching to be able to use it... so i need to find myself the ultimate htpc remote setup that i can tweak to be simple even for a child to use it. i'm looking for something in the $150 - $300 Dollar Range if it's possible.
Thank you For Your Time And I Hope To Hear Back Soon From All You Professionals Here At AVS.
