Problem with MCE Remote control in Vista

[drturner]

I have a Microsoft remote control and receiver in Vista. The remote works fine except for the direction buttons. Most times when I press up, down, left or right in media centre, the cursor moves twice. Sometimes I can't get to the menu item I need. Very annoying.

I have tried plugging the remote into different USB ports on a non powered USB 2.0 hub, but it doesn't help.

I uninstalled the reciever from Device Manager and let it reinstall, but then I couldn't change channels in Foxtel using the IR buds. Has anyone else experienced this? It's not the first computer this has happened to me with. Any solution?

Could it be the USB hub - I don't have a power source for it at the moment and no spare USB ports on the box.

Thankyou.

[bucket23]

Your batteries are getting low.
Happen's to me all the time.
Soon all of your buttons will do two inputs when you press the button once.

[drturner]

Thanks for the reply, but I'm using harmony 880 remote and the battery level looks to be OK.

[bucket23]

NO worries.
You may want to change the title in your post to harmony 880 remote issue though.
I also have a harmony but a harmony one. My remote will do two button pushes if I hold down the button a fraction too long. You can change the sensitivity in the Logitech software.

[Sads]

Originally Posted by benzizbit

it is the registry entry - EnableDebounce (we need to set it to 0)

Help with MCE remote under Vista MCE



I am having this jumpy scrolling issue also with the mce remote under vmc. very frustrating. a restart usualy fixes it but problem always comes back to haunt soon enough.

Is the above method from another post a proven solution, and if so, where abouts does it hide in the registry?

PS the mce remote has new batteries and my harmony does the same thing when scrolling

thanks

[Sads]

my apologies. after getting out the multimeter, batteries do not seem to be as good as i assumed.

[drturner]

I ended up getting a power supply for my USB hub. Now the remote seems to be working OK. (At least over the last 2 hours).

[RodgerJ]

I had the EXACT SAME PROBLEM!

I bought a Pinnacle PCTV remote kit that came with a Vista MCE remote and IR receiver. Everything worked out of the box, except that the directional arrows (up, down, left, and right) would react twice when I only pressed the button once.

Here is the fix that worked for me:

I have an Acer Aspire E380, and apparently it has a built-in IR receiver. So I unplugged the infrared receiver that came with my pinnacle remote, and the problem was gone!

I don't need to have my external IR receiver plugged in, and the buttons only respond once now instead of twice. It's an easy fix, it just took me forever to figure out that my computer had the built in IR receiver. Good luck, I hope this helps someone else!