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Microsoft MCE Remotes / MCE Keyboards

General Information

• MediaPortal supports Windows Media Center Edition remote controls and keyboards out of the box. Also some OEM MCE remotes are supported, if the receiver/transmitter is certified by Microsoft.

• Currently known certified and supported manufacturers:

• Microsoft/Philips MCE receiver
• Hewlett Packard MCE receiver
• FIC Spectra/Mycom Mediacenter receiver
• Toshiba/Hauppauge SMK MCE receiver
• Mitsumi MCE receiver
• Fujitsu Scaleo-E MCE receiver

Hewlett Packard MCE receiver Courtesy of HP HP

FIC Spectra MCE receiver Courtesy of FIC FIC

• If the manufacturer of your receiver is not listed here, your device is currently not supported by MediaPortal. If you know for sure that the device is certified by Microsoft (and works in MCE2005), contact the MediaPortal developers on the forums or on IRC, so your device can be added.

• Hauppauge users, please note: This article only applies if you have this remote. If your TV card came with this remote, please click here.

• If you are using Windows XP Home and your remote is not recognized by the system, you have to download and install the drivers, which you can find in our download repository.

• Here you can find the official Microsoft manual (PDF).

Configuration Settings

• In MediaPortal's external configuration application (section Remote/Microsoft MCE tab) you can find the following settings to adjust the behaviour of your MCE remote control:

General

• Use Microsoft MCE remote or keyboard

• Enables or disables MCE remote control/keyboard support

• Mapping

• Opens the ?Input Mapping Editor. Here you can adjust your button mappings to fit your own needs and reset to default mappings if necessary or after a MediaPortal update.

Default Button Mapping

• If some of the below mappings are not working for you, you should reset your mappings in the mapping editor to default and remove any user defined mappings this way. If it's still not working as expected, you should try a later SVN build, chances are that some functions/mappings did not exist in the MediaPortal version you are using.

• Please note: The following buttons can't be remapped using the ?Input Mapping Editor, they are currently handled by the operating system. You can modify them by changing mappings in "Keys and Sounds", but this is not recommended.

• This problem will be addressed in a later MediaPortal version. Until then you shouldn't try to touch those buttons, you might experience unexpected behaviour.

• Numeric buttons 0-9

• Cursor buttons

• OK

• *

• #

• Clear

• Enter

Standard Buttons

• Power TV

  • Exit MediaPortal

• Record

  • Import audio CD (Music File List)
  • Record TV

• Stop

  • Stop playing media

• Pause

  • Pause/unpause playing media or running slideshow

• Play

  • Play media
  • Pause/unpause running slideshow

• Fast Forward

  • Fast forward playing media
  • Go to next picture in a running slideshow
  • Increase timeblock in TV Guide

• Rewind

  • Rewind playing media
  • Go to previous picture in a running slideshow
  • Decrease timeblock in TV Guide

• Skip

  • Skip to next track/chapter/picture
  • Page up in TV Guide

• Replay

  • Skip back to previous track/chapter/picture
  • Page down in TV Guide

• Back

  • Go to previous menu/screen

• i/Info

  • Show/hide OSD (if available) and context menu
  • Change multi-channel audio from Audio Language-menu

• Volume +

  • Increase volume

• Volume -

  • Decrease volume

• Green Start

  • Jump to home screen and set focus to MediaPortal

• Channel +

  • Next channel in TV
  • Next subpage in Teletext
  • Zoom in to a picture in a slideshow
  • Page up in lists

• Channel -

  • Previous channel in TV
  • Previous subpage in Teletext
  • Zoom out of a picture in a slideshow
  • Page down in lists

• Mute

  • Mute/unmute volume

• Recorded TV

  • Jump to recorded TV list

• Guide

  • Jump to TV Guide (EPG)
  • Toggle TV Guide / TV

• Live TV

  • Jump to TV
  • Toggle TV fullscreen mode

• DVD Menu

  • Play DVD
  • Call DVD VTS menu

Teletext Specific Buttons

• Please note: Not all buttons listed below are available on all MCE remotes/keyboards.

• Teletext

  • Jump to Teletext when TV is running
  • Toggle Teletext fullscreen/windowed mode

• Red

  • Toggle video fullscreen/windowed mode
  • Toptext/FastText "Red Button"

• Green

  • Switch to next available audio track
  • Jump to Teletext when TV is running
  • Toptext/FastText "Green Button"

• Yellow

  • Switch to next available subtitle track
  • Toptext/FastText "Yellow Button"

• Blue

  • Cycle through available aspect ratios
  • Toptext/FastText "Blue Button"

Extended OEM Buttons

• Please note: Not all buttons listed below are available on all MCE remotes/keyboards.

• My TV

  • Jump to TV
  • Toggle TV fullscreen mode

• My Music

  • Jump to My Music

• My Pictures

  • Jump to My Pictures

• My Videos

  • Jump to My Videos
  • Toggle fullscreen/windowed mode for video

• My Radio

  • Jump to My Radio

• Messenger

  • Jump to MSN Messenger

• Aspect Ratio

  • Cycle through available aspect ratios

• Print

  • Cycle through available aspect ratios