MCE Controller on PC A to control PC B?
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Hello,
Is it possible?
The reason I'm asking is because there's a XBMC launcher for HTPC that loads XBMC as the shell and not Windows.
I would like to use that but then I can't use MCE Controller.
I have another PC always on so I'd like to be able to use this one to control the HTPC…
Thanks for looking.
I don't fully understand what you are trying to do. On the "controlling" PC, what UI would you use?
iRule.
MCE Controller would be installed on PC A and it would be sending commands (i.e <StartProcess Cmd="startxbmc" File="C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\xbmc.exe" />, keyboard stroke, etc…) to PC B (HTPC).
MCE Controller doesn't know how to send commands. It's just a receiver.
A suggestion would be to use shell scripting (e.g. CMD or PowerShell or Bash with cygwin) to script a Telnet client or nc.exe. For example, if you have nc.exe on your system you can do this from a .cmd script:
echo 'startxbmc'| nc 192.168.0.45 5150 -w 1
Thank you, I'll give nc.exe a try, even though I have no clue how to use a .cmd script :)