Cheap Decent Remote for HTPC (Home Theatre PC)

Well, I was building a HTPC and decided to use XBMC because of there interface and support for creating your own DVD covers to be shown when viewing your video library(there search sometimes gets it wrong).

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I decided I needed a remote for my HTPC because keyboard and remote for watching movies ? no thanks. So I found a remote from DealExtreme for $8.77 with FREE Shipping. 2 weeks later it arrived I plugged in the IR receiver to the computer (it auto installed the driver), put batteries in the remote and launched XBMC, to my surprise there was no other configuration, all the keys on the remote worked with XBMC right out of the box!!

The only settings I changed was to configure a shortcut on the remote to launch XBMC, so once I turned on the computer I did not need a keyboard or mouse, just press the XMBC button and start browsing your movies.

Launch XBMC using Remote
To create the quick key short cut on the remote; right click on the XBMC shortcut on the desktop, click properties, now click in the box where it says Shortcut key, now press the button on the remote you want to use to launch XBMC, the contents of the "Shortcut key:" box should have changed from "None" to something else.Click Apply and OK.

DealExtreme Link: IR Remote

XBMC Site: http://xbmc.org/
XBMC Download Link: http://xbmc.org/download/