Hack Windows 7 Media Center to Accept Additional IR Remotes
By Alexander Grundner |
February 10th, 2010
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A reader of Lifehacker submitted a tip to the site detailing how one can use a Zune Wireless Remote (two versions available: new, old - pictured above) or Xbox 360 Universal Media Remote with Windows 7 Media Center. The hack is simple enough to do, requiring a single digit in a command string to be changed (see quoted text below). In a nutshell, the edited string tells media center to scan all IR channels using 0 instead of 1 by default, So if you’ve got a Zune or Xbox 360 remote handy (both run on channel 8) and an IR receiver connected to your PC, you’re good to go.
As long as you have the media center IR receiver all you have to do is change the IR Id on the registry.
By default Windows is listening on channel 1; the Zune remote is channel 8. This is also the same channel for the Xbox 360 multimedia remote. You can set the value to 8 but this means that the regular MCE remote would not work. So what you want to do is set the ID to 0, this would make Windows listen to all the IR ID’s.
Open the registry. Scroll down to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57da
Find the REG_DWORD named CodeSetNum0 and change the value to Zero. Reboot the PC and enjoy.
Filed in: Peripherals, Software Tags: Microsoft Zune, Windows 7, Windows Media Center
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