I'm missing something.

[freewheeling]

I've never used Girder before, and I'm trying to get my head around what it does. I have a USB-UIRT as an input device and I'm trying to set things up so that either SageTV or Windows Media Center is controlled with a remote. I have several universal remotes, one is actually made by Universal and the other by Philips. First of all, when the program starts there's list of applications starting off with Girder Demonstration. What is this list for? Are these plugins? I click on one of the entries but nothing much happens. Am I supposed to highlight an application and then click "Add Remote" if I want to control that application?

When I click on "Add Remote" I get a list of remotes, none of which I own, and then a "new" option. If I click on "new" it asks me to press a button on my remote. So I press a button and my USB-UIRT blinks, but nothing happens in Girder. So does Girder know to use the USB-UIRT for input? I imagine there has to be some hardware way to recognize what my remote is "saying" but the software seems to assume it's done by magic or something. Is there some setting that I should have set to tell it to look at the USB-UIRT, or is it supposed to know that?

[freewheeling]

So, still no response to this and I still have *no idea* how to implement Girder with either WMC or SageTV. I feel like I've purchased another piece of obsolete software, like Show Analyzer, that's no longer supported.

[Ron]

Did you enable the USB-UIRT plugin in Girder?

[freewheeling]

Did you enable the USB-UIRT plugin in Girder?

If I highlight USBUIRT in the component manager and click on "enable" I get a message that the dependencies are loading, but it never migrates over to the "enabled" column. If I hit "reload" the status indicates "loaded" but again, it never migrates over the the enabled column. That would be a start, but I'm not sure I know how to link the key presses to an application. I have Sage set up to respond to the Hauppauge remote, but it doesn't do so except on the extender.

[Ron]

Go to file->settings then find the plugin tab and check that the usb-uirt plugin is enabled and not red. Open the log and restart Girder. Check if the USB-UIRT plugin is not throwing an error.

[freewheeling]

Go to file->settings then find the plugin tab and check that the usb-uirt plugin is enabled and not red. Open the log and restart Girder. Check if the USB-UIRT plugin is not throwing an error.

It says the USB-UIRT driver is loaded, and there was no error message in the logger. Shouldn't there be a SageTV plugin?

[freewheeling]

Go to file->settings then find the plugin tab and check that the usb-uirt plugin is enabled and not red. Open the log and restart Girder. Check if the USB-UIRT plugin is not throwing an error.

It says the USB-UIRT driver is loaded, and there was no error message in the logger. Shouldn't there be a SageTV plugin?

[Ron]

No press a button on a remote and look at the log what do you see? (let's fix one thing at a time)

[freewheeling]

No press a button on a remote and look at the log what do you see? (let's fix one thing at a time)

I see the following, after pressing "2" on the Universal remote (set to duplicate Hauppauge remote codes).

USB-UIRT driver 170000830AC0
USB-UIRT driver 170000830AC0
USB-UIRT driver 170000830AC0
USB-UIRT driver 170000830AC0

[Ron]

Excellent. Then your remote + USB-UIRT are working.

Assuming you are trying to control an application on your machine you can setup a profile using:

Now go to view->event mapping and launch the Add Remote Wizard. This is useful if you have a predefined GML file for your application.

Or you can try and directly control your target application with keyboard commands, mouse clicks or command captures.