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There has to be more of these IR receivers out there than ATI, Sage and any other PC based IR receivers I would think. Yet each for Eventghost you have do a registry hack and install a custom DLL. With Girder 5 it doesn't look like there is even a plug in for this receiver.
I tried the eventghost but it looks like I would have to remap every single command and I also couldn't get the joystick on the MS keyboard to be picked up. I would thing there would be a simple way to say to either program that my receiver is the EHome receiver and then load all the default commands for the MS remotes.
I was planning on using the Logitech default setup for the remote that send the yellow button (I have no clue why that is an option) to fire off a windows exec which would be my HDMI-on app to reset the EDID to get my tv to pick up the HTPC when it loses its handshakey thingy.
Any ideas? I posted on Logitech late last night about the need to send keyboard keys. Hopefully I get a useful answer. I don't understand why when I sett up the MCE device that it doesn't recognize every command available on the keyboard. All I want to do is create a sequence to either send the windows key + 1 or Alt plus F1.
EventGhost works fine for me with the USB-UIRT IR receiver. There are several other IR receivers that will also work, including the inexpensive Microsoft MCE remote IR receiver. It helps if you use one that's been proven to work rather than try and force a square peg into a round hole. Save yourself a lot of grief and get a receiver that's known to work.