Update: You can download my EventGhost configuration file from the downloads section of this site. Add it to your EventGhost folder and select File>Open in EventGhost to load it.
I find myself in the unfortunate position of having to reinstall and reconfigure EventGhost. I say unfortunate, because all was configured and working well until yesterday when my HTPC locked up and I had to hard reboot it. This is when I figured out that the configuration wasn’t saved…
Anyway, I thought I’d share start to finish how I’ve configured it to work with my box. I’m running a dedicated HTPC Windows XP machine with an AMD Athlon II dual core 3GHZ and 2GB of RAM installed. I currently have XBMC and BeyondTV installed. I know, I know, BeyondTV is heading down the road to destruction, but that’s not the point of this post. It works for me at the moment.
Video recording and remote control capabilities are provided by a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 card. I’ve also replaced the remote that came with it with a Harmony One universal remote.
The configuration I run allows me to run either BeyondTV or XBMC from the desktop by pushing one button on the remote, and controls either program correctly. I used to use the ir.exe that came with the Hauppauge, but configuration was a pain in the butt. EventGhost is so much faster and easier! Hats off to the author!
Let’s get started.
First of all, if you haven’t already click on the EventGhost link above and download the latest version of the program. Double-click on the filename to install the program. I won’t cover the install here, because it’s very basic and self-explanatory.
I got linked here from Google, specifically to the last page of this article. I needed a visual walkthrough to get the Enable Exclusively part done. Thanks for posting this.
With that said, I’m in the same situation as you were in when you wrote this article. Last night I got my setup just like I wanted it. Remote (Harmony One) was working perfectly (at least for XBMC, which is all I worked on). This morning I was doing a bit of work on it when it locked up hard and wouldn’t do anything for 5 minutes. That’s when I reset the computer manually. Later this morning I realized that my EventGhost profile had never been saved, and that I was back to square one. Needless to say I’m saving religiously now.
Going to be resetting up the XBMC configuration tonight…and adding Boxee as well this weekend. Thanks to this nice little article I’ll be able to avoid crossover between the two. Btw…the way I switch between apps is setup the Harmony One with two different devices, one called XBMC and one called Boxee. Then I just have one of the soft buttons programmed to be the Power Button, which tells Eventghost to fire up the program. That way the button configurations are completely separate, so I can change one without affecting the other. While they are similar, they are still different enough to warrant a separate profile. The IR codes the remote sends aren’t different, but the labels on the buttons are slightly different, and it’s nice to match up what is displayed on the remote with what’s on screen.