<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><p>The receiver is a MCE-receiver meaning that you'll need to tell your<br>
Harmony remote that you want to control a Microsoft mediacenter PC.<br>
You need to select something like<br>
Component: "Computer/Mediacenter"<br>
Manufacturer: "Microsoft"<br>
Model: "Windows Media Center"<br>
<br>
..in the Harmony configuration software. Afterwards you should be able<br>
to run the "irw" command on your frontend, and see the keypresses when<br>
you click on the Harmony remote.<br>
</p></blockquote><div> </div><div>Thanks Kenni. That makes it sound very easy and I'll try it tonight. </div><div> </div><div>But don't I need to configure some lirc files as well - such as hardware.conf, lircd.conf etc? One thing I find confusing with these USB HID IR devices is what role lirc plays in getting them to work. Do I even need to run the lirc daemon or do I just shut it down - but if it's not running how does the machine manage to receive and process any of the IR signals?</div>
<div> </div><div>As you can see I'm very confused with this stuff. Lirc is confusing at the best of times!</div></div>