[Detonation]

I bought a generic MCE Remote off ebay for $11 shipped, mostly just for the IR Receiver so I could use my Harmony. The remote actually works great, and I've already got all the commands mapped into the Harmony. All the buttons work fine in 7MC, however when I use it in Media Portal, most of the play control buttons don't anything. The only ones that work are the Fast Forward and Reverse. Play/Pause/Stop don't do anything. The other buttons work fine (up, down, back, etc) but those are just Windows key commands and work with any app. I have the "Use MCE Remote" option checked in the setting, and I left the default mappings since they assign whats expected. However I can't find any way to manually map commands.


Anyone else experience this kind of problem or know how to get the rest of my buttons working?

 

[elm_sd]

I've seen behavior like this in MP its usually selecting mce remote fixes it in media portal. I just set it up today and had the same problem changed to mce and way it went no problems!

 

[bryanoak]

This has been discussed ad nauseam over at the MediaPortal forums. And, there are a number of people who have been able to get the remote working properly in Windows 7. Downloading the up-to-date version of IRTrans Server Suite from the MediaPoral forums is just one of the different fixes that have led to some success.

 

[TheFranchise]

If nothing else works, HIP or similar will work for mapping. There's another program or two similar to HIP, but I've found HIP simple to use and gets the job done.


I have a generic MCE remote. It looks like one, but apparently it's not a true Microsoft one or whatever, so the buttons other than arrows and enter are hit-or-miss, be it MediaPortal, GBPVR, or whatever else I've tried with it. I don't think a generic one like mine will properly work without mapping some stuff with HIP.