TV Button on the Silver Hauppauge Remote

[Vik]

Hello - I am sure this has been answered before - but, somehow I am unable to find it.
I need to configure the "TV" button on the Hauppauge Silver 45 Button remote that came with my card. All other buttons seem to work fine (Video, Power, Menu, Info) etc. but I need to configure the TV button such that it goes to live tv whenever I press it from the BTV viewscape. Thanks a tonne. /V

[Fonceur]

You should be able to find a file named Irremote.ini in your C:\Windows folder or such. That is where you associate the buttons from the remote to some keypress. If you go to the [Beyond TV] section, you will see the current associations. On the other hand, I don't know if there is any short-cut that can be used to reach LiveTV.

[gbranche]

As Fonceur mentioned, there's an Irremote.ini file in your Windows directory that maps the remote buttons to keypresses that are recognized by whichever application has keyboard focus at the time of the button press. Here's the contents of the Beyond TV section of my Irremote.ini file, with descriptions for the non-obvious ones:

[Beyond TV]
GO={home} ;main Viewscape menu
GRNPOWER={ctrl}{shift}{f1} ; quit Beyond TV
TV={f6} ; watch live tv
VIDEOS={run(C:\progra~1\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvr.exe)} ; launches GBPVR
MUSIC={run(C:\progra~1\itunes\itunes.exe)} ; launches iTunes
PICTURES=g ; activates aspect ratio setting dialog while watching video
GUIDE={f7} ; display SnapStream.net program guide
;RADIO=
0=0
1=1
2=2
3=3
4=4
5=5
6=6
7=7
8=8
9=9
TEXT=I ; (i.e. '*') show/hide program info
SUBCC=U ; (i.e. '#') update program guide (while viewing guide)
NAVUP={UP}
NAVDOWN={DOWN}
NAVRIGHT={right}
NAVLEFT={left}
OK={enter}
BACK={esc}
MENU={home} ; main menu
VOLUP=+
VOLDOWN=-
CHNLPREV=l ; jump to last watched channel
MUTE=m
CHNLUP={UP}
CHNLDOWN={DOWN}
REC=r
STOP=s
PAUSE={space}
PLAY=p
REWIND={left}
FASTFWD={right}
SKIPFWD=.
SKIPREV=,
RED=e ; view program guide (while watching recording)
GREEN={ctrl}{up} ; page up in program guide
YELLOW={ctrl}{down} ; page down in program guide
BLUE={alt}{enter} ; toggle full screen mode

There's also a [Default] section, which has the following entry (in addition to all of the others):

TV={close(radio.exe)}{sleep(750)}{run(C:\progra~1\ SnapSt~1\Beyond~1\BTVD3D~1.exe)}

(Note that, anytime a pathname must be used, you must use the short version, as the IR Remote software apparently can't deal with full-length entity names.)

This allows me to launch Beyond TV from the remote, if it's not already running, or to bring it forward as the primary (i.e. focus-target) application if it is already running.

What I would do is copy that file to your Documents folder and edit it there. Once you've got it set up to your liking, copy it from there back into the Windows system directory. Once that's done, you have to run the Restart IR application (provided with the Hauppauge software) to have your changes read into your environment. Lather, rinse, repeat, until satisfied with your setup. I also recommend keeping the copy cached in your Documents folder, in case the one in the Windows folder ever gets replaced. (It WILL get replaced if you ever update your Hauppauge software.)

HTH,

[Vik]

Thanks. This works to start BTV when not in focus.
However, what I need is to go from viewscape/recordings/guide etc to live tv by hitting the "tv" button (when in BTV). Somehow, I am not able to achieve that..please help.!! tia.

[gbranche]

The "TV" button on the remote must be mapped to an "F6" keypress, which is what this line does in the Beyond TV section of the Irremote.ini file that I posted earlier:

TV={f6} ; watch live tv

I failed to mention that you may have to reference said [Beyond TV] section in an earlier section of the Irremote.ini file to have the software properly map the button presses to keypresses while Beyond TV is the active application. I don't have my copy of the file here at work with me, but you should be able to find the appropriate section by looking for other application names in the file. I'll check in again this evening after I get home.

[Vik]

Some-how this does not work for me. Although, I have included

TV={f6} ; watch live tv

in the {BeyondTv} section.
The {Default} section does include a reference to {beyondTv} - (That's how the other buttons work with BTV..I guess)

[gbranche]

First, I apologize for not getting to this last night, as I promised. I hope the delay hasn't caused too much trouble...

There's a section of the Irremote.ini file headed by the

[Applications]

label. That section lists all of the applications that will be recognized by the remote driver software. You have to make sure that Beyond TV is listed there, along with any other application you wish to control with the remote:

Beyond TV=

I think this is the missing piece of your puzzle.

Oh, and one other comment - I'm not sure if comments are recognized at the ends of the button setup lines, or if they're interpreted as simply additional keypresses to send to the app. I manually added the comments in my post, to describe to what actions the buttons were mapped. So, you may wish to remove the comments specified after the button mappings, thus:

TV={f6}

Having a semicolon at the beginning of a line signifies a comment, and those don't seem to cause any grief in the software. They may actually be ignored at the ends of lines, too. I don't have any such comments in my copy of the file, so I can't say for sure one way or the other.

[Vik]

Thanks. What finally worked was --


TVNew={f6}

I went ahead and commented all other references to "TV=" with a " ; " since BTV is the only TV application I use.

Not sure what the "New" does - but this works well for me.
Thanks and thanks to all who helped.

Vik

[gbranche]

There's a section of the file at the beginning that maps IR scan codes to button "names", to make it easier to refer to those buttons. (We humans deal so much better with names vs. numbers.) Apparently, in your file, "TVNew" is associated with the proper scan code, rather than just plain "TV", as it is in my copy of the file.

Congratulations on getting it working, whatever the solution.

[BigSpenderNOT]

Hi guys,

I'm new to the forum and Beyond TV (I actually haven't yet received my software in the mail!) and I don't mean to hijack this thread, but gbranche, I notice you have your Hauppauge remote set to open iTunes with the music button. Would you be willing to post your set up for iTunes from your remote.ini file? I've been wanting to use iTunes with a remote for a while and I was just figuring on buying a FireFly or StreamZap remote someday if I wanted to do that. I would forever be grateful!

[gbranche]

Sorry for the delay in my response. I've been somewhat "Internet challenged" while on vacation for the last three weeks.

Here's the iTunes section from my irremote.ini file:

[iTunes]
GO=g
GRNPOWER={alt}{f4}
TV={run(C:\progra~1\SnapSt~1\Beyond~1\BTVD3D~1.exe )}
VIDEOS={run(C:\progra~1\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvr.exe)}
;MUSIC=
;PICTURES=
;GUIDE=
;RADIO=
NAVUP={UP}
NAVDOWN={DOWN}
NAVRIGHT={tab}
NAVLEFT={shift}{tab}
OK={enter}
BACK={esc}
MENU={switch(*task*)}
VOLUP={ctrl}{up}
VOLDOWN={ctrl}{down}
;CHNLPREV=
MUTE={ctrl}{alt}{down}
CHNLUP={UP}
CHNLDOWN={DOWN}
REC={ctrl}k
STOP={space}
REWIND={left}
PLAY={space}
FASTFWD={right}
SKIPREV={ctrl}{left}
PAUSE={space}
SKIPFWD={ctrl}{right}
1=1
2=2
3=3
4=4
5=5
6=6
7=7
8=8
9=9
;*=
0=0
;#=
RED={ctrl}T
GREEN={ctrl}F
YELLOW={ctrl}Y
BLUE={ctrl}B
FULLSCREEN={alt}{enter}
FUNC={ctrl}O


HTH,

[BigSpenderNOT]

Sweet! Thank you!

[Odie3]

Hello,

Thank you for your ini files - however the only thing I can not get it to do is start B TV from the desktop.

TV={run(C:\progra~1\SnapSt~1\Beyond~1\BTVD3D~1.exe )}

BTV is in this location and your other top apps run [Itunes and gbpvr.exe tries to but is not there - btw what is it].

Any suggestions?

[guncam_man]

Ah, it's now named 'tvnew'. That's why mine wasn't working.

Here's another trick. The remote works by using the name an application window has. If you look in the upper lefthand portion of a window, you should see this name. 'Debug.txt' is the name it uses to print out the button names. So open notepad or wordpad, and name the file 'debug.txt'. Now when you push a button in that file, you will see the name of the button.

Anyway, here is another useful setup:
;reference PowerDVD at the beginning of the file where the other programs are listed, then add the following:

;dvd player here
[PowerDVD]
GO={alt}{f4} ;exits PowerDVD
GRNPOWER={ctrl}e{sleep(4000)}{alt}{f4} ;ejects DVD and shuts off PowerDVD
0=0
1=1
2=2
3=3
4=4
5=5
6=6
7=7
8=8
9=9
OK={enter}
PLAY={enter}
PAUSE={space}
MUTE=Q
STOP=s
MENU=L
BACK=z
NAVUP={UP}
NAVDOWN={DOWN}
NAVLEFT={LEFT}
NAVRIGHT={RIGHT}
REWIND={app(0x320000)}
FASTFWD={app(0x310000)}
SKIPFWD=N
SKIPREV=P
VOLUP=+
VOLDOWN=-

;;;;end section


I also mapped my 'videos' button for beyond tv to open PowerDVD. It looks like this:
VIDEOS={run(C:\Progra~1\CyberLink\PowerDVD\PowerDV D.exe)}
EDIT: there isn't supposed to be a space in PowerDVD.exe there

[Odie3]

Well, nice tip about the debug.txt. tvnew did the trick!

Thank you so very much!