More remote tips for MCE

Philosophyzer

Shared on Wed, 01/17/2007 - 12:38
Once I set the 360 to receive generic Media Center IR commands (system blade, remote) - and once I added the HP x5400 to my list of devices (I don't have an HP media center machine, I just used it to enable the IR commands within the Harmony itself), I am able to turn the 360 on and put it into MCE with no issues.

Previously I had to hit play-play in some sort of power on/macro before hitting the green button to launch MCE ... apparently the generic MCE IR codes that the HP x5400 uses don't require this weirdness.

So anyone out there using a harmony and MCE, i would advise adding a phantom device (HP x5400) and using those IR codes instead.  There's also more codes available, like My Music, My Videos, etc so you can launch right into certain modules within MCE.  You may have to adjust your 360 power on/power off within the Harmony config program since the harmony will try to turn on/off both the 360 and the HP x5400, and since the 360 "sees" both commands it'll get confused.  I changed my 360 commands in the harmony program to do nothing and let the Harmony program just adjust the state of the phantom HP.

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