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The easy thing to change here is software that interfaces to the USB dongle and does stuff on the PC. This also requires some reverse-engineering. I think it would be best to create a driver to make the remote work with https://winlirc.sourceforge.net/ or other similar flexible software which supports multiple remotes. Source: over 1 year ago
A patch was shared here but eventghost.net is down... Anybody that could load the zip file somewhere accessible? I've already tried asking the mods here but I got no reply. Source: about 1 year ago
What I have done in the past is this to get it working is the below but I thought as I installed the winusb drivers that was what was being reinstalled or whatever but now it seesm eventghostr is maybe looking at a location that is no longer available on eventghost.net. Source: about 1 year ago
Hi, I cannot load eventghost.net page in chrome therefore cannot download it. Any idea why? Source: over 1 year ago
EventGhost (download) is event based and uses Python (2.7) for scripting/automation. And there even is an AutoRemote plugin available. So you can send your messages directly to EG. Source: almost 3 years ago
You can send Join/AutoRemote messages to EventGhost, see also r/eventghost. EG is a mighty but resource friendly automation program for Win10, it uses Python 2.7 as script language. Source: almost 3 years ago
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