IVA Control without kerbal onboard

[icedown]

I'm working on getting ProbeControlRoom mod back going.  I have the IVA showing up and RPM appears to be working fine.  MOARdV thought it might be the update rate of RPM but there are monitors that are ticking along just fine showing vessel name and MET clock.  I think it's a matter of it doesn't actually recognize that its a controllable IVA without a kerbal present.  The main reason I think this is because the UI groups that should hide on entering an IVA don't.  Also while in an IVA, if you right click, the mouse pointer disappears and allows mouse view control, in PCR you have to right click and hold to look around and the pointer just changes to a green color.  I don't think it's actually triggering the IVA setup that allows mouse events to be passed to RPM.  I might be able to make it work by sticking a kerbal in there but then it would no longer be an unmanned mission while in IVA.  I'm not sure the sequence that a normal IVA goes through while being setup.  I've been searching through the documentation and trying all kinds of functions for a while now. 

Does anyone have any suggestions about a direction I need to look or something I might be missing?