Comments on: Launching XBMC with a Windows Media Center Remote

By: paolo

paolo — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:33:23 +0000

done, same delay

By: paolo

paolo — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:19:27 +0000

unistalled and reinstalled without xbmc portable and same 20sec delay. If i press start many times, it continue starting it every 20 seconds, now i try uninstall and manual install

By: paolo

paolo — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:12:10 +0000

i must say i just click “ok” on installation and now i realize that doing so i probably installed for both xbmc and xbmc portable mode? How to completely uninstall this in order to try manual installation?

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:01:38 +0000

Have you guys experiencing the delay tried the manual install steps? I’m curious if that would behave any differently.

By: paolo

paolo — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:44:40 +0000

i have the same 20 sec delay. win7 64 and mce remote (ms-tech case bundle remote)

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 06 May 2012 00:11:28 +0000

Thanks Sir! This is an awesome little tool!

By: Avery

Avery — Sat, 05 May 2012 00:51:06 +0000

Jacob,

Thanks for writing this app. It gets me closer to finishing my XBMC setup. I do have an issue and I don’t know if you have a solution. I install XBMC Launcher and it works fine when I activate it directly from Windows (i.e. double-click it). I noticed, though, that when I use my Logitech Harmony (which is mapped to an Ortek VRC-1100), pressing the ‘green button’ will launch XBMC the first time. But each subsequent time there is something like a 20 second delay between hitting the button and launching XBMC.

I uninstalled XBMC Launcher to see if it was an issue with the remote. Without XBMC Launcher, the ‘green button’ works as expected: it launches Windows MC without any delay. But once I install it, it works as described.

Since I know it’s not the actual executable causing the delay (because I can double click it and XBMC launches immediately). I also tried installing by hand and double clicking the cloned ehshell also works as expected; no delay.

I suspect it has something to do with the way the key press is getting intercepted; is Vista trying to do other stuff with besides just launching ehshell?

By: Jeroen Hof

Jeroen Hof — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:49:35 +0000

Thanks! Jacob,you are my hero!

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:46:24 +0000

Excellent!
Does just what I was after – (although bringing to foreground does seem to work?)

Download>Install>Works! (Windows 7 x64, XBMC 11.0 Eden)

THANK YOU !

By: Pean

Pean — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:47:18 +0000

great tool….thanks a lot from switzerland

works perfect with windows 7 ultimate and zotac zbox