Xbox 360 Media Remote (1493) for use in WMC on Windows 10?

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Xbox 360 Media Remote (1493) for use in WMC on Windows 10?

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Post by WMCRocks5439 » Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:28 pm

Hello there:

I have a Xbox 360 Media Remote and I want to use it for WMC on Windows 10, the bad thing is that there is literally no documentation on how to do this anywhere :problem:, I wonder if you guys can help. :D

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Post by technodevotee » Fri Mar 05, 2021 10:51 am

I assume you have seen this: http://irdb.tk/codes/

It seems there a number of different remotes available for the XBox.

There is a bit of software called showkey that I used to try and work out what was being sent from my remote, which might help you find out which one you have.

I know that some keys can be remapped in Windows but I've never done it myself.

I did have a go at translating codes using software including eventghost but it was too much work for me.

A good resource for info on infrared remotes was the xbmc (now kodi) forum but I haven't looked at that for ages.

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Post by WMCRocks5439 » Fri Mar 05, 2021 5:55 pm

I haven't seen that website that you have sent me, I tried clicking on it but it says 405 Method not Allowed. I tried going to the Wayback Machine to try to see what the website looks like but it says the same thing.

I don't know what showkey is, I tried looking it up but I only found a program called ShowKeyPlus which shows your Windows product key for Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 10.

I could try looking through the XBMC forum, thanks for the advice! :D

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Post by technodevotee » Fri Mar 05, 2021 6:27 pm

So it does.

Try this link: http://irdb.tk/find/ and select Microsoft from the drop down.

I found showkey.exe through the xbmc forum and it is here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmcmc ... e/download

It looks a bit dodgy but it is OK. let me know if you can't get it....

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Post by WMCRocks5439 » Fri Mar 05, 2021 10:49 pm

I don't get it, what am I supposed to do? is there like a tutorial I need to follow? I'm really not technical on these kind of stuff :crazy:

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Post by technodevotee » Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:24 am

no tutorial I'm afraid just a steep learning curve

may not be worth while for you

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Post by WMCRocks5439 » Sat Mar 06, 2021 4:31 pm

Alright, thanks for helping me!

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Post by technodevotee » Sat Mar 06, 2021 5:42 pm

I'll help out if I can but I don't think it is a trivial thing to do.

The first thing would be to find out the code the remote sends for each of the buttons using something like showkey.exe.

Next, you would need to figure out whether they can be mapped to the required WMC functions.

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