eHome Infrared Receiver is the entry you want (I am not running MCE either!) and so long as you follow the process I described above (particularly the "Have Disk" section) you should be able to install these drivers.

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Peter (BTMI)

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Sheesh I'm dumb - I skipped the 'have-disk' option and just used 'browse in this location' - the drivers now installed and I can foresee a long night of code / debugging ahead of me !

Thanks ! If I have any luck with my plugin I'll keep you all informed !

 

Chris

Peter,
I've tried and tried again... without success...
When you get the exception message box, just give me the instruction address. This should be sufficient for me to fix the bug.

Success !

I'm receiving the messages now, so it shouldn't be too hard to send them on to meedio / zoomplayer / whatever.

However, and I guess this is to BurningZeRoad, I've noticed that the remote no longer passes on the remote keypresses to windows (cursors etc). Is this the correct behavior ? I would have preferred to be able to catch the messages I'm interested in in my message-loop, and just ignore (passback to windows) the keypresses I don't want to handle (such as cursors / play / pause etc).

Thanks

Chris

Yes, that is the default action (which is desirable as with the other configuration, you could not intercept the keystrokes before they were sent to the keyboard handler).

This is where HIP comes in as this program allows you translate key presses on the fly (and includes predefined commands for Zoomplayer amongst other apps) and when I have the MCE remote plugin available, all of the commands will have their default actions which can be over-ridden on an application by application basis.

Otherwise you will have to re-send the commands for each key you do not want to change.

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Peter (BTMI)

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Hi cadna !
Sorry, but no more WM_KEYUP, WM_KEYDOWN and on... only WM_USER messages.
You just have to build your own SendMessage() sequences for each key you want to program.
The night may be long ! But don't forget the copy/paste feature !

The exception seems to have gone away...

This build works about 90% of the time.  One option to increase the reliability (and this is a common option with all IR Blasters) is to include a "Send Repeat" value in the MceIrPlaybackFromFile routine, that sends the contents of the file more than once.

I have uploaded a new version of the test program which allows you to change the filename of the IR data, and includes a new option "Send Repeat" which simply repeats the MceIrPlaybackFromFile routine.

Also, I have decided that the use of files rather than pChars will be probably just as efficient for my use (espeically for large code libraries) and so the proposed additional functions may not be neccessary.

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Peter (BTMI)

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90% ! This is a great news !

Concerning the SendRepeat parameter, I prefer to keep the loop in the application if you don't mind... If I have to manage the repeat count, I will to use SetFilePointer() at the beginning of the loop. This function only works with files (not with sockets and other kind of handles from which I could get data with ReadFile() function). Don't you ever hear about IR over IP ?

As you can see, it's very late here in France... So, I wish you great holidays and we'll talk about all this within 10 days... I'm going to bed...

Hope you have had/will have a great holiday.  When you get back I will have some more software for you to play with.

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Peter (BTMI)

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I have tried your sample and registration and play work, but with DDK driver my remote control doesn't work. Run only emitter.
Why do you have to use this drivers? If I use orginal driver, the emitter don't work.

I am a developer and yYour ideas it's very usefull. If your code become a library I would like to wrap it by .net and allow user to do ir operations when mce standby or start ecc.

Only DDK version provides the ability to manipulate these streams directy. 

The library is receiving commands as well, but you have to code the translation to keyboard messages for the default behaviour.

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Peter (BTMI)

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hey guys - what is the latest with this now - can you give us an update?

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P4 3.2ghz Processor
1gb PC3200 DDR4400 mem
MSI 6600GT 128mb GPU
Chaintek Av-710 SP
ATI HDTV Wonder
Samsung TIR-451 HD Tuner
Sanyo PLV-Z2 front projector - 106" screen
Gigabit File server - 1TB HD space
Serving 200 movies
Serving 17,000 mp3s
F$*#ing insurance to the hilt

Both BurningZeRoad and I are away from our desks this week, but the status is as follows:

1) BurningZeRoad's dll and replacement driver does a great job of learning and transmitting IR Codes.  When transmitting, some false sends occur, but this appears to be related to the hardware and placement of the IR Blasters and so more testing is required, although I do not think we will be able to get 100% accuracy. One downside of this is that all of the native key assignments are removed with this driver and so must be re-transmitted.

2) HIP is a program that can use the input from the remote and re-send the commands, and a version supporting this remote will be available for testing next week.  Hip can also save the learned IR commands and re-transmit them via the many options available in Hip.

So a complete solution will be available shortly....watch this space.

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Peter (BTMI)

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So will HIP in it's current release, be able to pass IR commands from any other remote via the MCE receiver and onto additional equipment via the IR blaster? Or will that function only be available in your new application?

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P4 3.2ghz Processor
1gb PC3200 DDR4400 mem
MSI 6600GT 128mb GPU
Chaintek Av-710 SP
ATI HDTV Wonder
Samsung TIR-451 HD Tuner
Sanyo PLV-Z2 front projector - 106" screen
Gigabit File server - 1TB HD space
Serving 200 movies
Serving 17,000 mp3s
F$*#ing insurance to the hilt

Currently HIP only support USBUIRT and TIRA IR blasting, but the MCE remote extensions will be available next week.

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Peter (BTMI)

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