Bluetooth mouse tilt wheel
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 7:59 pm
I have known and use X-Mouse Button Control since 2013 and it's a great piece of software. To allow the end user to reprogram HID standardized buttons is a really great user empowerment.
Recently I got a new mouse - Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Mouse 3600. It's a Bluetooth low energy mouse meaning it only works with Windows 8 and later. (Windows 7 doesn't support Bluetooth low energy). It has 2 buttons, wheel+middle click and tilt wheel left and tilt wheel right. That is, it doesn't have mouse buttons 4 and 5. It was paired and detected and Windows automatically installed the drivers for it. Then I installed XMBC. But only the left click, right click and middle click and wheel up/down are recognized.
I knew from internet reviews that this mouse supports tilt wheel left/right too so I installed Microsoft's Mouse and Keyboard Center. It installed the right driver obviously after which tilt wheel left/right started working. Unfortunately, it is hard coded in the Mouse and Keyboard Center to only scroll horizontally and no other function is available. However in XMBC, tilt wheel left and right were now recognized. (it glows yellow when I use them).
Since X-Mouse Button Control is far superior, and I didn't want Microsoft's bloated 42 MB Mouse and Keyboard Center installed, I uninstalled it. But it uninstalled the driver too and again tilt wheel left/right stopped working.
So I extracted the mouse driver from Mouse and Keyboard Center's installer and installed JUST the drivers using Device Manager. Mouse and Keyboard Center itself remains uninstalled. And now with the right driver for my mouse present, I can reassign mouse tilt wheel left/right to any action I want using XMBC.
So note for anyone: if the extra buttons in your mouse are not recognized/supported by XMBC, try installing the software that comes with the mouse or only its drivers and then they might be recognized.
As for Phil (the developer), I have a request. Can you make XMBC work with tilt wheel of my mouse using the normal/standard mouse driver in Windows? I am using Windows 8.1 64-bit btw.
Recently I got a new mouse - Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Mouse 3600. It's a Bluetooth low energy mouse meaning it only works with Windows 8 and later. (Windows 7 doesn't support Bluetooth low energy). It has 2 buttons, wheel+middle click and tilt wheel left and tilt wheel right. That is, it doesn't have mouse buttons 4 and 5. It was paired and detected and Windows automatically installed the drivers for it. Then I installed XMBC. But only the left click, right click and middle click and wheel up/down are recognized.
I knew from internet reviews that this mouse supports tilt wheel left/right too so I installed Microsoft's Mouse and Keyboard Center. It installed the right driver obviously after which tilt wheel left/right started working. Unfortunately, it is hard coded in the Mouse and Keyboard Center to only scroll horizontally and no other function is available. However in XMBC, tilt wheel left and right were now recognized. (it glows yellow when I use them).
Since X-Mouse Button Control is far superior, and I didn't want Microsoft's bloated 42 MB Mouse and Keyboard Center installed, I uninstalled it. But it uninstalled the driver too and again tilt wheel left/right stopped working.
So I extracted the mouse driver from Mouse and Keyboard Center's installer and installed JUST the drivers using Device Manager. Mouse and Keyboard Center itself remains uninstalled. And now with the right driver for my mouse present, I can reassign mouse tilt wheel left/right to any action I want using XMBC.
So note for anyone: if the extra buttons in your mouse are not recognized/supported by XMBC, try installing the software that comes with the mouse or only its drivers and then they might be recognized.
As for Phil (the developer), I have a request. Can you make XMBC work with tilt wheel of my mouse using the normal/standard mouse driver in Windows? I am using Windows 8.1 64-bit btw.