MCKeySender

By ryan.tollefson - Posted on September 28th, 2008

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MCKeySender is a simple application that can send keystrokes to the Media Center window. It can also be used to automate basic Media Center tasks. It is used by running the MCKeySender.exe with command line parameters.

MCKeySender supports the following parameters:

/play
/pause
/stop
/rew
/ff
/replay
/skip
/rec
/greenbutton

/up
/down
/left
/right
/ok
/back
/info

/volup
/voldown
/chanup
/chandown
/mute

/rectv
/livetv
/guide
/dvdmenu
/pics
/music

/t xxx

/t is for a timer. It must be immediatly followed by the number of miliseconds delay that you want (2000 = 2 seconds).

You can also pass regular characters to the Media Center with MCKeySender by using the characters as parameters (without the '/'). For example, if you wanted to send '1234' to the Media Center window, you would use the following: "MCKeySender.exe 1234"

You can open Media Center by using the '/greenbutton' parameter. MCKeySender will typically only send keys to Media Center - this means that if you haven't opened Media Center first, or if you close Media Center MCKeySender will not do anything. Also please note that there is a limit of 63 parameters that can be passed at a time.

MCKeySender may not work as expected if trying to use with remapping remote control keys. Many of the remote control remapper programs are not able to distingush between MCKeySender and the actual remote. This can lead to looping button presses (you would see the taskbar tray fill up with MCKeySender Icons. If this happens to you, close Media Center, then you should be able to close all of the MCKeySender applications.

MCKeySender will also support any AutoIt keystroke commands or modifier keys ('Ctrl, Alt, Shift, etc.).

You can download MCKeySender from: http://www.ryansfindings.com/files/MCKeySender.zip

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