Comments on: Hacking AirClick USB for Windows/PC

By: JerryN

JerryN — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:47:56 +0000

Does anyone know how to get this working with zune software? assuming i will have to make a plug in…

By: hood

hood — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:49:26 +0000

can anyone help me to make works AirClick under Win7 64x? Griffins soft seems to be unusable. i try Intelliremote but 4 some reasons it’s not usable.

By: Vostro

Vostro — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:59:14 +0000

Hey, my fav program is media player classic, do you know how can i make a plug in for that?
or how can i get it?
Thanks a lot !!

By: Dmitry Fedorov

Dmitry Fedorov — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:43:41 +0000

I’ve just added some functionality for the multimedia keys plug-in.

Now it also works with Adobe Flash players in full screen! (YouTube, Hulu, Amazon, JW FLV Player and similar)

As usual, source and binary are available here:
http://www.dimin.net/software/airclick

By: Jens L

Jens L — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:52:20 +0000

Guys, I’m not a programmer and I’m not really up to date on “hacking”. Is there an easy way to use VLC with Airclick ? Ideally copy a plugin in the right path, selcet VLC on airclick and that’s it.
Thanks.

By: Yevgeniy C

Yevgeniy C — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:30:35 +0000

Oh, sorry. You should just go to fry’s they should have a simple keyboard with the multimedia buttons for less than 20 bucks.

By: Iain Norman

Iain Norman — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:18:20 +0000

Yevgeniy, as the top of the article says, my keyboard doesn’t have media buttons. So I bought the AirClick to perform that duty.

By: Yevgeniy C

Yevgeniy C — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:46:58 +0000

Thank you so much Dmitry Fedorov, (Spacibo!)

I use your plugin while watching movies on VLC. WMP cannot sync audio as well as VLC.

And to Iain Norman, Why would you need to use a remote when you are at the keyboard typing away at a word document? That completely defeats the purpose of getting a remote that could be used through walls 60 feet away and you want it to work while you are sitting at the damn keyboard with word?

Anyways thanks for the plugin it works great with vlc. Quick question though, I do not have a use for the shutdown button and I dont want to accidentally shutdown my computer in the middle of a movie because i held the button too long. Can i simply delete the line which says

PowerOff Reboot ShutDown Suspend Hibernate

in notepad? I just need to disable that feature. Thanks

By: Iain Norman

Iain Norman — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:39:03 +0000

Theo, you’d be better off making a whole new plugin for your purpose.

The sendkeys plugin is nasty.

Have a look at the Making Plugins link at the end of the article.

By: Theo Smith

Theo Smith — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:04:23 +0000

I have the Air click and would like to have the sendkey Hold a key as I hold the button and release it when I release

By: Dmitriy

Dmitriy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:09:04 +0000

Is there a way to make a plugin or map the keys to the Netflix Player, that runs in Internet Explorer to stream movies from netflix. The Media Player setting doesn’t work.

I know there is away to make netflix playable through the media center, but i’d much rather be able to map the keys.

Thanks for all the useful info.

By: wrybread

wrybread — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:06:48 +0000

The Zoom Player plugin works awesomely! Thanks for posting.

By the way, if anyone wants the Griffin to control Windows volume as opposed to application volume, the Zoom Player plugin does just that.

Thanks for sharing.

By: Iain Norman

Iain Norman — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:58:19 +0000

The Sendkeys plugin is pretty pants, for a start it will only control the currently focused (active) application. So if you’re tapping away in Word and press a button it won’t send that key to Rhapsody, but instead to Word. Fairly useless.

You need to find a Rhapsody user who is also a .net developer (C# or VB) and an AirClick owner.

Not a lot I can do about it as Rhapsody don’t want anything to do with me as a UK citizen.

I’d suggest querying Rhapsody users for .net developers. If you can’t find one with an AirClick then offer to buy them one!

Try the Rhapsody forums?

By: Mike Collins

Mike Collins — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:51:48 +0000

I have Rhaposody installed. Have had many go arounds with support on how to make it work with Rhapsody. I can not figure out the correct words to use for Play/Pause using send keys. Works very well on Windows Media Player

By: Iain Norman

Iain Norman — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:12:13 +0000

Top stuff Larry, that’s going to be bloody useful. Ta!

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:46:12 +0000

Never mind. I found a great article which does this : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/ipc_wmcopy.aspx

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:39:49 +0000

I love your example source. I have been trying unsuccessfully to send WM_COPYDATA from your example code to a c# windows form project I’ve been creating. Is this possible? Can you upload an example project with WM_COPYDATA as I would like to remap all the buttons on this remote to control a c# windows form.

By: Iain Norman

Iain Norman — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:13:38 +0000

Yes it will launch winamp when you click play, if winamp is the currently selected app.

You can change the selected app, with on screen display of what you’ve changed to, by holding one button and moving through the list of plugins with two others.

By: Vince

Vince — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:38:51 +0000

I’m thinking about getting this remote to use specifically with winamp. Looks like the control now supports winamp out of the box. Can anyone say if winamp can be launched with the airclick remote? Or does winamp already have to be open for the remote to work? The product manual uses iTunes for it’s example and says that pressing any button on the remote will open iTunes–is that the case with winamp?
Also, if you want to use the remote for more than one application (say WinDVD), do you have to manually reconfigure when you want to use something other than winamp? In other words, would you have to set it for WinDVD while you were watching a movie and then set it back to winamp when you’re done?

By: Iain Norman

Iain Norman — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:25:21 +0000

Two excellent hacks there, good going guys!