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I find this frustrating. My XBOX 360 stands almost next to my MCE machine. Everytime I bring my MCE machine out of standby or push the green button, my XBOX also switches on. This is irritating cos I come home from work and my daughter (4 years) is watching tv and the XBOX has been running for a few hours.
Plus, if I am wanting to get to the main menu on MCE, I have to get up, walk to my IR receiver and point my MCE remote 2 inches away so the XBOX doesn't pick up the signal and switch itself on.
Is there a way around this?
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Yeah there is, I'm not in front of my xbox at the moment, but there is a setting in the xbox that can prevent this from happening, I was in the same boat as you until I found this setting.
dan_p, you are right, the trick is to set "use xbox media center remote only" in the 360's remote settings window, and to use the xbox guide button or the green button to turn it on. (the power button will intefere with your mce machine, regardless of its channel settings).
I still have a problem turning the 360 off with an infrared command. I dont see a way to do it. I would have thought the 360 media center remote would have used channel 8 (the hard coded xbox setting) but it does not! It also affects my mce machine which uses channel 2 (set using tweak mce). I am referring to the power button only here, all the other buttons behave correctly.
Surely there are more people out there with a 360 and mce machine in the same room, i mean the 360 is not exacly a usefull media center is it?
I bought my harmony remote so i didnt have to get off the couch
Powering on the XBOX can be worked around, but come power off time the MCE PC will start up. Not a huge issue as Hibernator will sleep it 30mins later.
Only other issue is if the PC was already on doing a record, guide update etc...Turning on the xbox will try and shut it down.
I have also tried using the tweak tools to change Remote channels but haven't had success.
The only solution I've been able to come up with is to set the power toggle in my Harmony remote to send iMon codes (which is nice if you have a Silverstone case). Then you just have to make sure that the MS receiver won't wake the PC.
As far as I can tell, the MS receiver doesn't differentiate the id of power codes, even though the Xbox does. Last time eHome had an update, I noticed the receiver's red light no longer went on when I pressed any other button on the 360 remote, if the PC was off. It still recognised the power button, though.
My guess is that MS needs to update the eHome driver.
The eHome drivers or receiver hardware cannot receive a channel specific power on/off message. This is a big limitation if that is the case, and almost makes the entire channel system redundant IMHO.
or
The xbox remote control sends a "universal on" command, or something similar instead of a power on/off for channel 8 like it should. If this is the case, i should able to set my mce remote to use channel 8, and record that power on/off infared command in my harmony, which i will try when i get home. Fingers crossed but i dont like my chances.
Theres probrably heaps of usefull info in other parts of this forum, but.. Video codecs supported natively on the XBox 360 are currently limited to MPEG1, MPEG2, DVR-MS and WMV. Transcoding is possible, but it is really, really horrible. Trust me, transcoding is not a solution. This makes it pretty useless for most peoples needs i would think. WMV is not a bad format, but c'mon, its far from being a standard. If your thinking about moving your htpc, think again.
I wonder if msoft employees get fired for sending emails with video attatchments that are not in the wmv format.
ok, i really dont know what else to try. setting the mce remote to channel 8, i would have expected it to only turn off/on the xbox only but this is not the case.
Has any one else got any success with an mce machine and an xbox in the same room?
