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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Mysticeti on May 03, 2004, 05:04:34 pm

Title: My USB-UIRT and Girder experience
Post by: Mysticeti on May 03, 2004, 05:04:34 pm

I was going to post this info here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=12365
but that thread has been hijacked a couple times and I thought starting a fresh topic might be a good idea.

My primary goal was to be able to control basic JRiver Media Center playback operations using the universal remote I use for my AV system.  Controlling other apps and other aspects of Media Center is a secondary goal.

• So I ordered USB-UIRT.
• I installed Girder while I waited for the USB-UIRT to ship
• USB-UIRT took a little over week to arrive and came with instructions for downloading the drivers off the web (http://usbuirt.com/getstart.htm).  Installation & setup instructions are on the same page including the important steps of
• Copying the USBUIRT.DLL plug in to Girder's plug in directory.
• (Re)starting Girder (exit completely first)
• Going to Girder's "Settings..." menu (under "File...")
• Clicking on the "Plugins" tab (if necessary)
• Enabling the USB-UIRT plug-in.
• While not in the USB-UIRT instructions, this is a good time to also enable Girder's "SendMessage" plug-in.
• In Girder, use "Import Group..." (under "File...") to import the MC9_131_USBUIRT.gml file located in C:\Program Files\J River\Media Jukebox\Data\Extras\Girder (or where ever you installed MC).
• Expand the MC tree in Girder and learn the functions you want your remote to control. For me it was mostly the transport functions: Pause/Play, Next, Prev., Stop, etc.
• YMMV but I had to tweak somethings to keep duplicate messages from being sent.  I was hitting "Next" on the remote once and MC was advancing two tracks.  Adding a 200ms delay helped as did tweaking the remote.

Now that I've come this far I want to satisfy my secondary goals:

• I want MC to start up when the power button on the remote is pressed
• I want to be able to navigate my playlists using the Up/Down/Left/Right buttons on the remote.

I'll look into this soon but if anyone has already done this and can save me some time...

Title: Re:My USB-UIRT and Girder experience
Post by: mjcumming on May 03, 2004, 07:43:12 pm

Please hop over to www.girder.nl for help if you need it.


Mike

Title: Re:My USB-UIRT and Girder experience
Post by: Mysticeti on May 03, 2004, 07:54:47 pm

Thanks Mike.

Sometimes it's best to ask Girder folk about MC and sometimes it's best to ask MC folk about Girder.

I'm really not sure which case this is.  Perhaps I should ask in both locations.