Kinamax MCE Remote (Yes, I know I am cheap)

[Cyphran]

Hello,
I decided to go the cheap route and buy the Kinamax MCE Remote off of Amazon. I assumed it used a similar driver (if not the same) as the MS MCE remote, and that I could update it using the MCE Driver update.

Boy was that a mistake. The USB Receiver actually just loads itself in as a USB keyboard and mouse, and sends a volley of keyboard commands to the computer. The volley includes typical default play commands so that it works with a multitude of programs.
The obvious problem with this occurs in my situation because if I am doing something else on my computer, they keyboard commands just send to the active application.

Is there anyway that I can hijack the commands being received by the IR receiver, or even the HID Keyboard device and send them only to EventGhost?

I have posted a screenshot of my devices page with the devices the receiver loads highlighted.

I have tried using the MCE driver to replace the base driver loaded for the USB Receiver, but Windows says the driver is not compatible with my device. Can I fool Windows into allowing it, and if I do fool Windows, would the MCE driver work?

Thanks in advance for help. I usually hate asking for support on a forum without contributing myself, but much of this is outside of my level of knowledge.

[Bitmonster]

I don't think you can use the eHome driver replacement, since it doesn't load the eHome driver.

You can try to search the MediaPortal forums for the "IR Server Suite" of "and-81". Maybe they have found a solution for this remote. I'm in contact with and-81 to bring his IR Server and EventGhost together for better handling of the MCE remote and EventGhost will get an interface to his server in the future. So if the remote works there, it will also work in EG in the future in some way.

[Cyphran]

Thank you for the reply. I shall look into MediaPortal.