aelOnn
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Just sharing my experience since it cost me 2 hours to figure out a proper configuration:
I use an Harmony 650 and a FLIRC receiver to control my computer.
When I switch to the activity "watch a movie", I want my Harmony/FLIRC to do:
- WIN+P
- RIGHT
- ENTER
in order to activate dual screen on the TV. For that, I added a personnalized sequence to the activity.
The sequence played manually was working fine (thus no pbl of button configuration), but nothing happened when the Harmony was playing it automatically.
I suspected a problem of duration of the IR signal.
=> I changed the "repeat delay" (the cursor value between 0 and 3) of my Flirc-XMBC device in MyHarmony.com
It was 0 by default, I set 2.
Now it's working fine :)
I suppose it's related somewhere, but I flashed my FLIRC with an "inter-key delay" = 6. No idea what is the exact meaning of it though :(
Your thoughts are welcomed if you have a leaner solution ! :P
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After flashing with 2.1 and the checkbox "builtin profiles" unthicked, works like a charm now, thanks a lot !
Harmony 650 inter key delay
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Hi Jason,
not sure how far you have gone in MyHarmony interface (yes, it's a nightmare probably designed by a maze architect for alien civilizations), you may know it all already, but there are a few parameters which may lead to the situation you are describing. Each one is "device specific":
- inter key delay: the minimal time between 2 signals, usually 100ms.
- repeat value: corresponds approximately to the "duration of each signal", value between 0 and 3
- power-on readyness: after power-on signal, time before send the next signal, usually 1000 to 4000ms
- input readyness: after changing the input canal of the device, time before send the next signal, usually 500ms
- delay between devices: don't know where to configure this one, but Logitech is describing it as: "each IR signal is received and treated by each device, and ignored if not relevant to the device. After receiving a signal, some devices enter in an analyzing and treating delay, and don't accept furthermore signal during this lapse of time." I think there is a delay added between 2 signals to different devices.
All these can make a sequence very long, according to the various devices involved.
By experience, you can often reduce the inter key delay to 0ms, which decreases drastically the overall delay of a sequence.