MCE2005 remote with SageTV?

[SimpleSimon]

Is it possible to use the Microsoft MCE remote with SageTV?

BeyondTV can make use of it, so it should be possible with SageTV.

Thx!

[blade]

Yes, if you do a search of the forums you should find plenty of information about using the MCE remote with Sage.

[GbrNole]

yes but you need to use girder too to make all the buttons work.

[naln]

Originally Posted by GbrNole

yes but you need to use girder too to make all the buttons work.

Have you tried linking the cmds/Keystrokes to sage TV? I dont know if you can see the remote thro sage though- I use a Keyspan remote- and am trying to get MCE cmds working on it.
As far as I know- MCE remote has Keystroke analogues. So doing the reverse should be possible outside MCE environment-

[SprDtyF350]

I use it, works somewhat all by itself. To use all the buttons you need to use Girder. I have it setup with Girder and all the buttons work fine. There is also another driver on the Girder site that will let you use the blasters. I don't use that since I don't need to "Blast" anything on my client machines.

[peterjb]

You can also use Hip (www.byremote.com.au ) with it's MCE Send & Receive Interface which as well as being a great product - is free. - ( pls excuse my shameless plug for another Aussie! )

It will work with the existing mappings for the MCE remote to SageTV/Windows commands and let you remap other keys to whatever SageTV commands you'd like - with the default driver. ( I have this setup working in my rig ) You can also use the replacement driver and map all the keys to whatever SageTV/Windows commands you'd like.

My understanding is that you can also get blaster support with the MCE Send & Receive Interface with either the default and replacement driver.

Cheers

Peter