Best Remote to emulate for USB-UIRT with Harmony 676

[kroberts1972]

Hi all,
I just got a usb-uirt, and I have noticed that some remotes work better with it than others. For instance, I told my harmony to emulate a Microsoft MCE remote, then learned the IR commands into xlobby. When controlling xlobby with the MCE remote emulated, it is suggish. But, if I learn the buttons from my PVR remote device into xlobby (using the harmony), it is not sluggish and works well.
Can someone suggest a good remote to emulate with my harmony 676 that will work well with xlobby and the usb-uirt?

Thanks!
Kevin

[kroberts1972]

I ended up finding old remotes around my house that seemed responsive, then programming them into my harmony and Xlobby. Now I just have to get zoomplayer working with the remote.

[jryan1776]

^

i'm also curious of a what generic device anyone has used to for the harmony remote.... it's kind of hard to grab a device out of thin air especially when harmony forces you to enter the model number and everything.

any recommendations would be nice...

[lpg]

I had the same problem. What I did was set the remote up for my basic devices. I also added a device that I was required to learn from. I then took one of my remotes from my components that could support multiple components and found a set that did not send out a stream of codes.

If you look at girder or eventghost you can see how many codes and repeats are sent out.

Unfortunately I do not know of a short cut. It was trial and error unitl I was satisfied. Luckly you should only have to do this once.

I also used the xRemote plugin from the French Team which really helped to control xlobby.

[cinOxen]

I used "media center pc" as a device.

[jryan1776]

I used "media center pc" as a device.

doh! didn't think of that... did you have to enter a manufacturer and model number? does it allow all of the buttons to work info, guide, A, B, E, etc?

[cinOxen]

I used "media center pc" as a device.

doh! didn't think of that... did you have to enter a manufacturer and model number? does it allow all of the buttons to work info, guide, A, B, E, etc?

Sorry to take so long to respond. I have a really hard time logging in to this forum for some reason.

I don't think I entered a specific model. All the keys were mapped pretty closely. To use the MS IR receiver I ended up using a plugin with girder that disabled all the regular keypresses but it doesn't take too long to setup girder to process them.

[jryan1776]

thanks for the info. i ended up using the codes for the defaut hitachi television... wild guess... seems to work ok. not sure if things would improve with a shorter string. the hitachi uses 3 to 4 lines in the learn window wereas the hauppage strings seemed to be shorter....