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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: NickM on November 24, 2003, 09:51:32 am
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Unhappy - but maybe misguided.
Trying to extend the capability of MC, I re-read the website blurb. Use a remote control... http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/remote.html
So off I go and but the RedRat3; stuff it in the USB port and... well that's it. Win2K recognises it with the RedRat driver. But does MC? Not that I can tell. IRMAN and USB-UUIRT plug-ins are installed, but neither seem to load. IRMAN doesn't produce any response with the Start button. USB-UUIRT comes up with "Unable to load uuirtdrv.dll".
Documentation from RedRat makes no reference to MC. More importantly MC documentation, apart from the web site sales pitch, doesn't seem to help. Arrghh. Frustrated and starting up my old gramaphone in retaliation.
nick
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Girder is what you need. www.girder.nl (http://www.girder.nl)
Most here find trading built-in MC comfort for the power and flexibility of Girder extremely worthwhile.
The learning curve is steep but if you treat it like any other coding project you'll be fine. The people on the girder forums are almost as devoted and helpful as the great people on this board, and love to help polite, curious new-comers.
Once you get far enough along, post and ask or search here for people's .GML (Girder config) files. I use my Sony RMVL1000 with a USB-UIRT to control most aspects of MC; no reason for you to go through the same hours of painstaking labor I did to reinvent the wheel.
Good luck and happy hunting!
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I will get Grider - thanks. What still find frustrating is the MC web page sales pitch makes a claim to support RedRat. I guess that I expected it just to work without anything else.
In my effort to keep things simple ( i.e let someone else invent the wheel ), is there a remote that just plugs in and works with MC - no additional software or changes to anything else?
nick
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Sorry about the trouble with the RedRat device, that got put on our web page by mistake. We do support the serial IRMan and a USB device called UUIRT but not the RedRat. I'm taking a look at the RedRat SDK to see if it's easy to implement. Would you be willing to beta test a plugin if we make one?
Thanks,
John T.
JRiver, Inc.
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Ideally the handheld could be used to BOTH control playback and to connect to powered speakers in rooms throughout the home.
Both Girder and netremote have their roots from a time BEFORE there were inexpensive wifi capable Pocket PCs.
Today, you CAN economically do this (i.e. BOTH). MC uses WDM core stuff, so perhaps there is some way to tie in the voice capabilities??
www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/pocket/9Series.aspx
www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/products/voicecommand/features.mspx
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Sorry about the trouble with the RedRat device, that got put on our web page by mistake. We do support the serial IRMan and a USB device called UUIRT but not the RedRat. I'm taking a look at the RedRat SDK to see if it's easy to implement. Would you be willing to beta test a plugin if we make one?
Thanks,
John T.
JRiver, Inc.
I'd really appreciate a link to the UUIRT. Google couldn't find it for me.
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It's UIRT, not UUIRT.
http://www.usbuirt.com/
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Sorry about the trouble with the RedRat device, that got put on our web page by mistake. We do support the serial IRMan and a USB device called UUIRT but not the RedRat. I'm taking a look at the RedRat SDK to see if it's easy to implement. Would you be willing to beta test a plugin if we make one?
Thanks,
John T.
JRiver, Inc.
I'd really appreciate a link to the UUIRT. Google couldn't find it for me.
UUIRT is an initialism for USB-UIRT... For what it's worth, I really like this device. Not only does it receive IR from just about any remote, it *sends* as well. This means I can program Girder to do lots of things on a remote button press: for example, start MC, turn on my TV, turn on my A/V receiver, and start playing.
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Yes, of course I would be happy to test a new plug-in... As long as I don't have to wait too long ;-)
nick