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MCE Remote Replacement Driver FAQ MCE Remote Replacement Driver FAQ The contents of this FAQ have been extracted from the lengthy posting on The Green Button forum - my thanks to all of the contributors (particularly burningzeroad for his hard work and pallissmn for his excellent introduction). Microsoft OEM a remote control to compliment their XP Media Centre Edition (MCE) which is attractively priced and designed and includes a USB-based IR Receiver. Both the remote and the operating system can be purchased separately and the remote will work to some degree with standard XP (service pack 2 is recommended). The remote allows you to control the PC (which is cool) and you can even teach it the TV on/off and volume up and down buttons so you can perform those functions from the MCE remote.
Hello everybody I have a Packard Bell RF MCE Remote control with USB remote receiver. Works fine with Media Center in Windows XP vista and windows 7 can supply drivers if needed.
Some of the buttons send normal keystrokes like and and which work in any application. It is also supplied with two IR 'Blasters'. These are designed to allow the PC to send commands to other devices (such as a TV) by simulating a remote control and sending the infra red signals that it (the TV) understands. So if you have a cable, freeview or other kind of set top box, you can get the PC to change the channel of the other set-top-box (provided it is on the Microsoft list). You program the computer to record a program, and the PC will make sure that the set-top-box is tuned to the right channel).
If its not on the Microsoft list, MCE has the facility to set up manually from a normal STB remote by capturing and storing the IR Commands. French programmer Bruno FLEURETTE has provided a (free) set of stand-alone and programmable tools that provide the following extended features:.
Complete control of the IR Input (optional) allowing you to use it to control ANY program on your PC (with or without MCE). Learn IR commands from the remote controls of other devices (TVs, STBs etc). Transmit previously saved IR commands or Pronto format CCF commands to either blaster allowing you to control external (non-PC) devices directly from your computer via the remote. Accept the input from other (compatible) remote controls allowing you to process more commands than previously possible using just the supplied remote control. All this would be possible with standard XP and allow complete control of your PC and external equipment via remote control with or without MCE. A PC running XP (any edition) with an available USB port (for the IR receiver).
A MCE v2 remote or the XBox 360 remote (v1 remotes are not yet supported). NOTE: Other MCE compatible remotes may be made compatible. Check out this link.
MCE v2 Remote XBox 360 remote Mce v1 Remote (not supported). New MCE Remote drivers and software available from (if you are using Hip, these drivers are included in the Full Installation and HIP MCE Send and Receive Interface and do not need to be downloaded separately).
The source code is available for these drivers is available at The current release is 0.18. Software to manage the commands of the remote control device (optional) Girder - or HIP (free remote control program) - First (if you have not already), install the MCE remote control and check this is working. Next you have a choice a) Use the default driver (eHome Infrared Receiver) If you only use MCE, and you do not want to change the functionality of any of the buttons, then you can use the default driver and no other setup is required. In this configuration, each button the remote uses the keyboard interface and each key is translated to a key press.
A list of these values may be found. The command-line programs MceIRRec.exe and MceIRPlay.exe may be used to record and playback IR Commands. B) Use the replacement driver (MCE Infrared Remote Control) If you want to be able to customize the button actions you must installed the new MCEIR.SYS driver using the directions included in the section. You will also need Girder or Hip to control the input and output (see the sections below for more information about using these).
OR Added Jan 4 2008 c) Use the replacement MCEIR.dll file to program the device and disable the default handling of the keys with registry changes Aaron over on the MediaPortal platform has made available a new build of the MCEIR.dll program that you can use with the existing MCEIR.SYS and is Vista compatible. The dll is available here: The authors explanation of the process is as follows: Load 'regedit.exe' and navigate to: HKEYLOCALMACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Servic es HidIr Remotes 745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57da Then delete the keys from 'CodeSetNum0' to 'CodeSetNum3'. To make sure you can recover these keys easily should you want to you should save them by using the export function in the file menu.
Once the registry has been changed you will need to reboot for the change to take effect. This same process can be applied to disable automatic keyboard handling. Just look at the other registry sections under the 'Remotes' sections. Now if you ever want to re-enable the automatic handling of the MCE Remote and MCE Keyboard you just need to put those registry keys back. The complete thread may be read here: Make sure the MCE remote is installed. In the Control Panel/System, select the Device Manager button on the Hardware Tab. In the Universal Serial Bus Controllers section, locate the entry for the remote, right click and select 'Update Driver' - Select 'No, not at the time' for the Window Update prompt.
Select 'Install from a list or specific location' - Select 'Don't search. I will choose the driver to install' - Select the 'Have Disk' button and enter the location of the MCEIR.SYS drivers. Select the MCE Infrared Remote Receiver option and the rest should be self explanatory.
After installation, the entry in the device manager should look like this: Easy mistakes to make are - The remote is listed as an input device as well, but you need to change the driver for the USB device - To find the driver you need to navigate right to the driver folder and select the 'mceir.inf' file. Follow the instruction entirely - if you don't the system will most likely find the std MS driver. Please note that as you are no longer using the MS driver, any key presses will not control the PC If you want to go back to the normal driver, just repeat the above but instead of 'No, not at the time' click 'yes, this time only' and it should find the original driver. The MceIR.dll distributed with the MciApiIR.rar is a Girder-compatible plugin and may be used to receive IR commands by simply copying the file to your Girder plugins directory and setting it up (please see the Girder documentation for more details). The programs MceIRRec.exe and MceIRPlay.exe may be used to record and playback IR Commands. Install the replacement MCE Remote driver as explained above. Then download and install either the (selecting the MCE IR Plugin from the Components page) or the and the.
Run HIP and Open the configuration file called MCEIR.HIP If your copy of MCE is not installed in the default directory, or if you wish to use a different application, edit first Application slot with the appropriate location of MCE or another application to control (and define the keys). The system should be ready for testing. To use the MCE remote to send commands, you must first learn (or read from a file) the commands by selecting the Edit IR Commands menu option on the Main Hip screen. Once this dialog is displayed, you must first create entries for the names of the Remotes you wish to learn, and then you may add edit and delete commands for each key press. IR commands are saved in files located in the directory defined in the MCE Configuration Screen. HIP Support questions are best lodged at in the Software Section of the The CCF (Component Configuration File) that was developed by the Philips for their Pronto range of remotes has become a defacto standard for saving consumer IR Codes. These are often the most reliable source of learned commands (especially if the manufacturer of the equipment created them).
Many (though not all) of the IR codes in these files can be used by MCEIR.DLL to generate commands. These commands look something like this.