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Comment on Launching XBMC with a Windows Media Center Remote by dotbenjamin

dotbenjamin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:35:55 +0000

Amazing — thank you so much. Bit of a hack, but it’s at least a reasonably robust one.

Thanks again!

Comment on foo_g15lcd 0.3c by Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:30:42 +0000

I’ve heard that it does work for the MX5500, but I don’t have one of those keyboards to try it out. Have you tried using it with your MX5500? Let me know what you find out!

Comment on foo_g15lcd 0.3c by ET

ET — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:58:20 +0000

I love this component!!
And thank you for recompile it for newer foobar20000.

By the way, is it possible to support Logitech MX5500 keyboard?

Comment on Launching XBMC with a Windows Media Center Remote by steelman1991

steelman1991 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:39:04 +0000

Hi Jacob

Sorry my bad – I wasn’t having issues with your launcher, but with the various options available on xbmc (jhsrennie’s .reg and launching from a shortcut key). None of the solutions worked and I was having problems finding a stable solution. I just wasn’t sure what effect if anything the XbmcLauncher.exe had.

I tried your launcher with the combination of jhsrennie’s Remote-SendKeys.reg, however without the availability of a mapped ‘info’ button in his config (can’t think why this is missing from his config – might need to ask), this was useless for xbmc. I have since moved to a simulated mce keyboard activity within the Harmony set-up and everything has worked OK.

Sorry for the confusion. Everything working as it should at the moment and thanks for your hard work in providing a solution – was starting to tear my hair out trying to get this to work.

Comment on Launching XBMC with a Windows Media Center Remote by Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:15:55 +0000

I’m also using a Harmony remote emulating an MCE remote, so that certainly shouldn’t be an issue. XbmcLauncher.exe is the exact same file as ehshell.exe, just renamed. So no, you have no reason to do anything with it. You should only need to do what is listed in the install instructions. Has the launcher worked at all for you? If you double click XbmcLauncher.exe in the directory where you unzip everything, does XBMC start? If it doesn’t, the launcher is probably having trouble locating your XBMC directory. Perhaps you didn’t run the installer and just copied over the XBMC directory to your machine?

The launcher works by checking the registry key “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\XBMC\(Default)” for an XBMC directory. If it fails to do that, it will check the default 32-bit and 64-bit XBMC install directories (“C:\Program Files\XBMC” or “C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC”). If neither of those two approaches work at finding your XBMC directory, the launcher won’t know what to do and will just exit.

Comment on Launching XBMC with a Windows Media Center Remote by steelman1991

steelman1991 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:16:54 +0000

Just a quick question on this – I ahve had a terrible time getting my Harmony One (emulating an MCE Remote) to launch xbmc on a consistent basis. Can you advise whether the only changes listed in your article are required. I notice that in the rar file there is also an XbmcLauncher.exe – should this be unrared anywhere I cannot find any instructions relating to this – Sorry if this is a stupid question.

Comment on Launching XBMC with a Windows Media Center Remote by Ronald

Ronald — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:17:52 +0000

This only works in Vista/7;
takeown /F ehshell.exe
and then change the permissions.
My guess was it could be possible with robocopy but then we still need SUBINACL

Comment on Launching XBMC with a Windows Media Center Remote by Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:09:49 +0000

I think that could replace steps 7 through 9. The problem, and please correct me if I’m mistaken here, is that Administrators don’t have ownership of that file by default. Before we can change permissions, we need to take ownership. Is there a command prompt mechanism for doing so? I can totally see these install instructions being a big pain, so anything to reduce that would be nice.

Comment on Launching XBMC with a Windows Media Center Remote by Ronald

Ronald — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:00:08 +0000

maybe use something like;

cacls %systemroot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /e /g administrator:F

for the first 8 steps? (just a thought)

Big thanks for your input on the Shell!

Comment on Launching XBMC with a Windows Media Center Remote by Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:53:16 +0000

Sure. I’ve reuploaded the zip file. The zip now has a portable mode folder with an ehshell.exe set to launch XBMC with the “-p” arg. If I find out there are a lot of command line parameters people like to use, I’ll have to do something more elaborate with the launcher. But, this should work for now.