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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: ama_mmmc on February 10, 2004, 11:03:37 am
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I am using the latest version of MC9, and absolutely love it. I am just finishing up 18 months of treatment for a Brain Tumor, (all is going well) but I need a vacation, so I am planning on driving up and down the east coast with my laptop providing a temporary solution rather than bringing all my cd's.
Here is my question. I have to log in to the computer anyway, so I don't mind having some interaction with my laptop, but I would like to have a simple way to do a couple of things. Next, previous, Play/Pause, Stop. Any playlists that I create, I will create and load after I boot up the machine for the day. I mayb fill the 6gb of space that I have in the playing now, and let it fly. Volume will not be a problem either as that can be contolled through the stereo.
The quesiton is, can I use a 10 key keypad, and map funtions to it, and could someone point me in the write direction? I am no programmer, so I was hoping to get somthing that was not to tough. I do not have the 10 key yet, but maybe it will be come apparent when I bought it. The idea is I don't want to spend a lot of money on this, as it is only a 3 month trip, then I need to think about returning to work with my laptop.
Thanks Drew
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Hi Drew,
Glad you're done with treatment. The drive sounds like fun.
My two thoughts would be using a mult-media keyboard (something small?) or an IR receiver and a remote. UIRT2 (USB IR receiver) is supported.
Here's a little more:
http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/remote.html
MC Options has a remote section. Any universal remote could be programmed.
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You can also use Girder (http://www.girder.nl) with the bundled GML.
You would find the functions you wanted to control within the GML and learn the keypress you wanted to use to activate the function. Any keyboard/keypad should work with this setup.
Best,
Brad