rocks911 wrote:I ordered a

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November 3, 2011 at 2:20 pm #6401
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    [quote=rocks911]

    I ordered a Snapstream Firefly remote. That was a mistake, it’s not really supported by the manufacturer. It arrived with severely corroded batteries and an installation CD with a date of 2006. I cant even get it to load on my new machine. Probably have to eat that.[/quote]

    That is one issue you have right there. The snapstream remote is and was only made for beyond TV. So out of the box it will only work with the Beyond TV application. What you want to do is find a remote that will work out of the box for whatever “front end gui” you are using, in your case it appears XBMC.

    here’s a good list of reviews for remotes for XBMC: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Remote_Control_Reviews

    [quote]I have a 2 story house with a mancave upstairs. The cave is where the PC is and an A/V center with an Emotiva pre/pro, a Sunfire amp and 5.1 speakers. I also have a 58″ Panny plasma. Downstairs in the family room I have an LCD. The PC has HDMI out of the video card and thats what I want to share with the TV’s runnign XBMC. I also have 2 PS3’s and a  WD TV.[/quote]

    Next question is are you trying to share the video out from this one PC to both TV’s?

    If you are, and you are hell bent on using XBMC maybe check out http://www.xbmc4ps3.org/ this will get the XBMC interface running on the PS3’s.

    [quote]How do I get all this to work?[/quote]

    Maybe some more details on exactly what you are trying to do here.

    [quote]Nothing seems to like the W7 64 bit OS, the remote I got is dead in the water, the PS3’s doesnt play many file types (which got me on this road and also got me interested in the WD TV which plays just about everything) I dont care for the Windows Media Center or the Windows Media Player as they are not flexible enough.[/quote]

    Blasphemy…. how can you NOT like Media Center 😉 its arguably the best all around, easy to setup, user friendly, high on the WAF scale, setup out there and guest what, you buy a Windows Media Center Remote, plug it in, and it just works, no tweaks or tricks or setup needed, it works out of the box.

    So really the issue you have is that you purchased a remote that doesn’t work out of the box for XBMC in the first place. You should never have to run things like Event Ghost (which is an in-between app) to get commands to work for what you need. Too much of a hassle and not needed at all.

    -Josh