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[toodooleedoo]

I need a Professional solutions that meets my needs and so far JRiver is the closest and want to say I may make the change but currently I am having a focus issue with my MCE remote and my workarounds have been unsuccesful.

I have dual monitors and when the application is not in focus the remote powers other programs.  This behavior is similiar to what I was experiencing in WMC but I was always able to at least hit the green button and get focus back.  Currently after toggling the option to allow JRiver to control the green button it does obtain focus however if I am not on the home screen there is some half focus kind of behavior and not usable until I manually click the mouse to get proper focus.  This does always work if on the home screen which is weird. 

I noticed the beta release of MC18 contains new logic in the release notes to obtain focus when sending a Keyboard event so I loaded up the new version enabled the secondary hid device and MCE remote and taught it to send an up keystroke on top of the standard actions and this works with no issues however version 18 is beta and the Connected Media feature for youtube doesn't work.  I get a popup with no option to launch in JRiver.  I have checked the forums reset dialog boxes held ctrl and click and nothing is working.  Since I understand this is beta and this is MC17 section of the forum I have decided to rather try to get MC17 to work.

I have also tried setting up custom commands with the MC18.exe /MCC coded logic but can't sort out some buttons based off the c header list like the directional navigation and gave up with this approach. 

Any ideas on how I can always get proper focus from MC17?

[JimH]

Welcome to the forum.  Please try these settings:

Tools/Options/Theater View/Disable WMC

Remote Control/Devices and Options

Try running Media Server.

[toodooleedoo]

Hiya JimH,

Tools/Options/Theater View/Disable WMC
    -  Was already set

Remote Control/Devices and Options
    -  Have MCE and HID enabled already

Try running Media Server.
    -  This is new but starting it up didn't change anything

I am right now working on an AutoHotkey solution I have setup a custom script set it to the autohotkey script basically containing:

WinActivate,ahk_class JRiver Theater View Class

And this is obtaining focus but now I am trying to sort out how to open theater view if its not open.  The toggle theater view causes it to annoyingly go back to the home screen so playing with other commands....

A cleaner solution would be great but I think I may be onto the path of a workable workaround...

[toodooleedoo]

Ok this has been a real painful adventure but I am going to use this AutoHotkey script and trigger as mentioned above.

My dream of course would be to have remote setup with no need for focus (think i just need to figure out how to hit arrow keys) maybe I will try to figure that out in the future.  If anyone has a cleaner solution please let me know and/or if someone stumbles across this hopefully it helps them out.




IfWinExist,ahk_class JRiver Theater View Class
{
    WinActivate
}
else
{
     Run, c:\windows\system32\MC17.exe /MCC 22001,0
}

[RussellS]

I noticed the beta release of MC18 contains new logic in the release notes to obtain focus when sending a Keyboard event so I loaded up the new version enabled the secondary hid device and MCE remote and taught it to send an up keystroke on top of the standard actions and this works with no issues

I'm running MC18 so I'm very interested in this as I'm having some real issues with the MCE remote losing focus when playing videos in Theater View. Unfortunately I can't find any reference to it so I must be looking in the wrong place. I've checked the history in the MC18 pinned thread but could not find anything about it. Where can I find the MC18 release notes you refer to.

How would I go about getting it to send the up keystroke on top of the standard action as you describe.

Any help you could offer would be very welcome as this focus issue is driving me crazy.

Thanks


SORRY, I didn't realise this was in the MC17 section of the forum, I thought I was in the MC18 section. I've reposted it in the correct forum.