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[Added to Roadmap] Add new remote "Power" button for PC Shutdown

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[Added to Roadmap] Add new remote "Power" button for PC Shutdown

Post by Jamie » Mon Sep 02, 2019 12:00 pm

I would like CMC to have a remote power shutdown button enabled in the CMC Remote button setup.

In "Advanced MCE Remote button mapper", I program the power button to invoke keystroke CTRL + ALT + 9 to run a shortcut to shutdown the PC.

I have a shortcut that initiates the power shutdown. See screenshot.

Could CMC do the same programming?
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Re: Add new remote "Power" button for PC Shutdown

Post by Pauven » Mon Sep 02, 2019 12:30 pm

I thought that a power toggle button was standard on MCE remotes, and you configure the behavior in Windows' power options.

How is this different?
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Re: Add new remote "Power" button for PC Shutdown

Post by Jamie » Mon Sep 02, 2019 12:59 pm

The default buttons never worked for me. I've had to program it to shutdown for my power button to work on both of my remotes.

Even yesterday when I reset the mapper to default and programmed the CMC remote buttons my power button would not shutdown the PC.

I noticed that after programming the CMC remote buttons that the shutdown button brought up CMC in Music mode as well as the Music button. I programmed the Music button to work in CMC, but never the power button.

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Re: Add new remote "Power" button for PC Shutdown

Post by Pauven » Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:26 pm

That's very odd.

What remotes?
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Re: Add new remote "Power" button for PC Shutdown

Post by Jamie » Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:38 pm

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Re: Add new remote "Power" button for PC Shutdown

Post by Jamie » Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:40 pm

Just an FYI. These remotes and their power buttons work well with my XBox if that helps

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Re: Add new remote "Power" button for PC Shutdown

Post by Pauven » Mon Sep 02, 2019 2:37 pm

I wonder if the same issue I described for the 0-9 buttons in the other post (CMC making a backup of the button config and using that for all future changes) is also causing this issue. Follow the steps I outlined in the other post and test again.
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Re: Add new remote "Power" button for PC Shutdown

Post by Jamie » Mon Sep 02, 2019 3:31 pm

The fix for the numeric keys did not fix the lack of a working shutdown button.

I noticed that for the MCE advanced mapper by default that they use a command "shutdown". This doesn't seem to work for the nucs which I assume is the problem in this case. The keystroke is being sent to the NUC which seems to not know what shutdown means. I map the shortcut and it works fine. For now I am using the mapper program to define the shutdown button and CMC for all the other functions.

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Re: Add new remote "Power" button for PC Shutdown

Post by Pauven » Mon Sep 02, 2019 4:18 pm

Here's what Advanced MCE Remote Mapper shows for my power button - this should be stock Windows 10 values:
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EDIT: Here's my system settings:
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Re: Add new remote "Power" button for PC Shutdown

Post by Jamie » Mon Sep 02, 2019 4:46 pm

My shutdown setting is set to shutdown. Sleep is not set.
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My mapper program by default is set to this which does not work.
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I set it to this and it works.
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I also noticed that people can set the powerbutton to sleep mode in the mapper. I want my Nucs all the way off when I am done for the night, or day.

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