Control Your Home
Turn on your heating or perhaps water the garden without leaving your armchair. Unused buttons on the MCE remote control can be assigned to send xPL messages to other Home Automation devices.

External Commands
Don't want to have to turn on the TV to listen to music? Avoid those clunky Media Center menus and control Media Center via your intranet and webpad or PDA. xPLMCE responds to xPL messages to directly control playback of media.

Monitor Media Center Events
xPLMCE broadcasts xPL messages to your network reporting the playback state of Media Center and the details of the current media. This information can be used to turn on a projector, automatically dim the lights when a move starts or to drive a front panel display, for example.

On-Screen Notifications
xPLMCE responds to Caller ID and On-Screen-Display messages sent to it by other xPL applications, poping up a dialog to display the message.