Tutorial: How to use HIP

[symon_say]

I spend many hours trying to find some tutorial or manual that explain how to use HIP but coulnd find it, i get frustrated many many times when things doesnt work but finally i completly understand HIP at least for MCE remote, so i'll write this little guide and hope it helps you.

First of all do what says here.:

http://www.byremote.com.au/Hip/mce_remote_faq.htm

This are the basics of the work and the developer nows the best just do what he sais.

The when you get HIP running is pretty simple if you want to make the remote launch any program or command just go to File/preferences/alternate input, under the system-wide keys window you'll see some command and buttons just click add value, press the key you want to config on your remote and then select what you want it to do, you can select from several predefined options, add programs or keyboar options.





Now you set some apps to open with your remote, i use it to make it lauch WinTv.

Now the interesting part, how to make work with any other divece that use remote.

You have to open the HIP configuration window and the go to Remote I/O/Edit IR Commands



In this window you'll teach HIP the commands from the other remote you want to MCE remote control, so you and every key you want to use, push Add IR, learn IR directly from a remote control and push the button you it to learn, careful cause it learn the time you push the button so one quick touch is enough.

Set all the buttons you want.

Then go to the config window of HIP



And add the program you want to use the commands, i add wintv cause i want to control my STB with my remote.

Then you just have to Add value like the first time, to use the IR codes learn just push the keyboard icon next to the Primary command box, and push Send IR, select the command you want to send and you're done.

If you want it to send a command on any app just add it in the prefererence/alternate input option. The values entered on config windows are for specific programs or app.

Hope it helps and sorry for some errors in typing, english is not my native language.

[Hellman109]

Nice!

I have a Logitech 785 that I want it to close MCE and open iTunes (as MCE has a cratacular music interface) and this looks like it will do the trick!

W00t!

EDIT: I hope this works for VMC too, didnt realise I went into the 2005 area :S

[tottenham_hs]

brilliant. thanks for the tutorial.

I want to use HIP to execute a command to change between resolutions. What program or is there a command line i can use to change resolution without having to do the whole control panel display business?

[symon_say]

I don't know if this is possible but you can put command one after the other you have to gave then some delay, HIP have 200ms and 500ms between commands.

I don't know much about short cuts and key thing, but you can do a chain of command like (Go to desktop, right click, properties, alt-tabs until you get to setting, single tabs until you get to resolution and right or left to the desire resolution).

Maybe that could work or you can find a chain of command that works better than this.

[dgaust]

Originally Posted by tottenham_hs

brilliant. thanks for the tutorial.

I want to use HIP to execute a command to change between resolutions. What program or is there a command line i can use to change resolution without having to do the whole control panel display business?

You should be able to use powerstrip to create a profile, and set that profile to a key combo. Then using HIP you could set it to capture the IR code and link it to that particular shorcut.

If you did this, it should allow you to change the refresh rate from 50hz to 60hz with the press of a button on your remote.

I actually do something similar using HIP. I don't use it to change refresh rates, but I do use it to open a couple of VMC plugins.

For instance I use myTV to manage my downloaded TV series.

So in HIP I captured an IR key press (1), and chose execute program and selected eshell.exe. Then to get it to open to myTV, I had to find the relevant registry keys and set the entry point.

There are two particular entries you need, one for the application and the other for the entry point.

In the instance of myTV I put in

/entrypoint:{5F82B596-5C07-45bf-97C6-94B1A13730D4}\{FEB9A597-0998-431c-877A-ECDF00F07800}

as a paramter, and now when I press 1 on the remote (or the custom button I created on the Harmony) it opens myTV.

The only problem with the IR remote, is that HIP will only capture a couple of buttons and not everything. It captures the numeric buttons as well as the ok and # buttons.

Since I sometimes use triple tap the only useful buttons to trap are 1, 0 and #. So that gives you three custom buttons.