Taking this out of the box the other day, my new XBMC install was working with my old Xbox DVD remote within 15 minutes!īasically, this is a USB IR receiver. Despite posting in the XBMC forums, asking friends who are more knowledgable than I am and trying all the suggestions which were given, I had to admit defeat and give up. I now run XBMC on a mini-PC (an Acer Revo & Zotac Zbox ID41) and the one thing which I dread when coming to either upgrade XBMC or install it on another box is getting the remote control to work.įor the last few years, I've been using the old Xbox DVD remote, coupled with the old Xbox IR receiver (converted to USB using an adapter I sourced from eBay) and I've recently spent hours trying to get this working with the latest incarnation of XBMC ("Frodo").
I've been using XBMC since the days when it was an app for a modified Xbox and I've come to rely on it for watching video and even playing music. The software is downloaded from the official website and has built in configurations for standard keyboard, XBMC, Boxee, Basic.
It works perfectly with no problems as yet (will update if needed). I run a win7 system with XBMC as a front media centre connected to my TV for watching TV Series/Films and listening to music through a dedicated AV receiver.įor the past year or so I have used a few different wireless keyboards, a tablet (running Yatse/XBMC controller over HTPC and unified remote to control windows), however I now use my AV remote (Onkyo) for controlling my TV, Receiver and my XBMC. I have rarely seen this mentioned on forums for XBMC/Boxee or any of the others but it should be! Why isn't this better publicised I don't know! Excellent!!Īlthough I use another wireless keyboard to operate my system outside of my media centre (XBMC), this little beauty is perfect for the day to day running of any media centre and has not been publicised widely enough. For ubuntu it is supported as a usb key board device and the tools to configure it are easily obtained through an apt-source with simple instructions provided on the website.ĭo note that if you use XBMC as a 'headless' box then you ar epretty much left with the CLI interface, and whilst it may seem like a lot of work to configure it does in fact take only a few minutes. With this little device I have easily trained my samsung remote to control XBMC and am now very much enjoying the fruits of the effort. I have an ubuntu XBMC/Mythtv setup running on the superb HP Microserver to replace the rather lackluster samsung PVR, but I also have a Samsung TV and previously they shared the same remote control.