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I’m going to fix this. I’ve reproduced it twice but I am working out a log that will diagnose it.

If you've got a remote already, you signed up to be a beta tester of the hardware and software. If you signed up to be a beta tester, thinking it wouldn't come with associated issues, you probably misinterpreted what a beta entails because the word is basically just used interchangeably with "early-access" nowadays.

Current Device List SkipApp - Device List.csv is a consolidated device list of SkipApp our supported devices. One thing to note, there are more categories here than in our current app. We consolodate these, and overlap some devices. So some might show up in A/V and Audio. To distinguish, we have added the category in parenthesis to our device list: In the SkipApp, the Misc. Category contains everything. Manually Importing a device For now, the only way to import a device is to enable our Admin Mode. Do so with the following: Mac Instructions: In a terminal: echo -e "{\n \"showAdminPanel\": true\n}" > ~/.config/SkipApp/config.json Windows Instructions: Copy the config.json to the following location: %localappdata%\Packages\SkipApp_sddpyax1dmvqm\LocalState\ If done properly, you will see the admin tab: File Format The next thing you'll need is a comma delimited text file and the pronto codes. The text file name gives us the Device, and Category. You can put a device in multiple categories: File Name: Brand-Model-Type1#Type2#...#TypeN.txt, where Type must be one of these values: TV, SetTopBox, Audio, AV, Games, PC, Home, Misc Example: Samsung-SN112024-AV#PC.txt The content is a comma delimited file where we give the name, and the pronto code. For example; CURSOR UP, 0000 006D 0014 0000 00BC .... CURSOR DOWN, 0000 006D 0014 0000 00BC .... Add this to the app Admin/Brands Tab with the Add button. Once done, you're device will show up in the app's wizard for you to assign buttons. Please share devices here and I will include them in the software for the community. Further Information There is an additional file format that I will document later that supports other types of code formats. Including a raw encoding, NEC, etc. You can find Pronto codes across the internet. This will get much easier over time. We will support learning in the software, and a direct way to share with the community.

Everything did not, in fact, looks okay.

I’m working on it right now and have been upfront that it’s coming. It is imminent so we can help all the users and get community code sharing.

If they add long press to the remote, then it could handle 6 activities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am not affiliated with Flirc. I'm just a friendly guy with a passion for remote controls My Skip 1s Configuration: https://github.com/benjaminmetzler/skip_remote Find me on Mastodon at: https://mas.to/@benjaminmetzler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Updated. You can download the latest through the app self update or on the site

I'm not disappointed. I know this is still a product in development and there will be issues. The developers have been quite forward with their development efforts, so I'm willing to give them the time they need to get to a release state. Right now it's still beta level. Having a global sleep command would be nice though. Some buttons have a delay, but not all of them.

It does, I'll purchase one, but I will put a lot of effort into making this easy for customers. If it's adding a bunch of codes with a text file, pointing and recording keys, or pointing and doing a reverse lookup with the original remote. This is my biggest priority. This is not a product that we're shipping and going to work on the next one. We will continue to support and make this product better. Hang tight while I try and quickly help resolve this.

The advantage of being a smaller company is that you can make design decisions that empower users to create their own custom setup. For instance, I prefer how being able to have macros on the activity buttons, since that makes all the buttons equally powerful. Other people prefer not to. Having the option is the real strength. I can even see a case where someone wants to convert other buttons to "activity" buttons. For instance, someone with motor issues might not be able to do "long presses" with a remote, so giving them the ability to map activities to other buttons (like the number buttons) might be better for them.

Thank you so much. I was able to reproduce the error, I will work on it.

Yeah, right now you can't make the activity buttons do anything but switch the remote's persona. They have said one of the top feature requests is to make it so that the activity buttons can send commands like you are looking for. It's also been said that the primary current focus is fixing bugs in the app. I fully agree that it is a frustrating experience right now. Even when there's something I know it can do I have a hard time remembering what to click on to get to the right screen. I have chosen to make the little 'i' (info) button perform the action of switching inputs since I don't really use an info button otherwise. So I have to select A, B, C then press i to get my A/V equipment to switch. Not as clean as desired but I'm holding out as it is promised to be fixed. Another useful feature that's been mentioned is adding support for alternate actions on long presses.

Yep, this has been requested by several people and is now on the roadmap.

I got the batteries out the same way I've gotten batteries out of every device I've ever owned in my life slide off the cover and hit it into my hand to knock the batteries out. worked fine for me /shrug

Not currently. This is a feature that I think will be added in time, just because enough people have been asking for it. But no idea on a timeline for that. Fairly large list of features we'd like to get added.

Yep, it's consistently been one of the most requested features, so we're working on it. Will likely be one of the first big Skip App updates aside from bug fixes and simple things.

hi, just following up to see if there any been any further updates for xfinity. The remote works great for all other functions but with the x1 box, unless i'm directly in front of it, nothing works from the range of my couch :/

Excellent idea on the first part. We're going through designs right now on how to better handle existing configurations. Will suggest mocking up something like that to the designers. Regarding part two, I believe the eventual plan is to turn the Testing option in the wizard into the ability to scroll the entire button list and test every button. This should get you what you're looking for, code-wise. Further, our ultimate goal is to make most of this incredibly simple with just remote lookup, so you don't have to do any guessing at all.

Not supported yet, I am working on it in the beta firmware.

I second LouP's responses. Having just come from a Sofabaton X1, I can say the Skip1s is the much better experience. If there's any lag, I can't perceive it. It seems to be as reactive as using a device's standard remote. Holding vol up/down also appears to work naturally. That was actually one of my big problems with the X1, I just could never get holding volume to work the way I wanted.

Can you try replacing the Enter button with the Cursor Enter button? I also have a Vizio and I had to do that. (Or if it's set to Cursor Enter, switch it to Enter.) There's a chance that a beta update changed the default enter button.

Awesome, it seems like that worked - thanks! I had actually already done that easier method while waiting. As you said, it worked, just messier in the interface. The only adjustment I made to the code for that button was the "key" value. It had the value "14" in the Roku 2 section of the document, and the Streambar had its 19 existing commands taking up values 0 through 18 - so I copied it to the end of that section and changed the value from 14 to 19. I'm not sure if that was actually necessary, but it seemed like a good idea, just logically speaking. The "Back" button did indeed show up for the Streambar in the activity I was working with. Won't know for sure that everything will work till I get the remote, but it seems promising. Lastly, I noticed that the "Back" command didn't show up for the Streambar in my other activity, so I must have to add it in each one in the exported document - and that's fine. But maybe at some point you can go ahead and add that missing (but often used) button to the device in your database, so that it eventually won't have to get added on a case by case, activity by activity basis. Anyway, thanks again!

Honestly, I completely glossed over that. Sorry... I had just had the same problem and my brain just went 'ooh, ooh, I can help with that' and jumped into action. Glad it's working now at least.

I just wanted to say, thank you. Your comment made my day. People are quick to dish anger, but it's rare when someone takes the time to write something positive. Thank you so much.

Thanks again, I just received the remote today!

Really great job. Here are some notes, and what I've been up to: I reached out to irscrutinizer to see if we can get direct hardware support built in. I don't have time, I'm hoping I could get some help from them with my support. I actually just pushed an update so flirc spits out better ir output +1231 -12132 etc, that can be directly imported into irscrutinizer I have a commandline app that will print out the pronto hex codes directly, I will share that in a second. I would be happy to provide some source or a python wrapper for you to play around with a whip something up. Can you share your files you created? For the benefit of the community, and I will include them in the next release. We don't support only JSON importing, but will support a simple text file too, as outlined here: ** Edit ** For some reason my app CI isn't auto updating, here is a copy until I figure out what's going on: https://flirc.io/nightly/Flirc GUI/mac/Flirc-3.26.5.dmg

1853 1622 1780 0853 1004 are code to try while programming a OFA remote, not the pronto codes. I didn't find anything in globalcache.com for the OnePlace/S70CDS. I was able to program my Harmony remote with the Canal Digital OnePlace and captured the available commands with a flirc. They looked pronto-ish. I put it in a github gist. @Nathan is that what you all need?

Yes, I'm going to work on making this easier, unfortunately, it's a bit of a pain. You can use Flirc in combination with irscrutinizer to get the pronto codes. I have a bunch of internal stuff I'm going to publish too. Then put the pronto codes in a comma delimited specified here:

Simplest fix, at least for now, is to correct any issues with the Flirc app, while reporting his issue in this sub-forum. https://forum.flirc.tv/index.php?/forum/101-supported-devices-databases/

This was helpful. I’ll add more soon.

got it, thanks! didn't know that was an option. things are already acting better. i can't test too much (guests coming over soon) but this is already doing better. i'll check back when i get a chance to poke at it more. thank you!

Yep, as @Benjamin Metzlersaid, plan is to make it possible to add more activities with existing buttons for those who need more than three. Can't give any kind of date for when that'll happen, but it's one of our top items in the roadmap.

Yeah this is a big. We are going to update activity switching in a future update for sure that better handles current states. Try the new firmware. There is a new beta. Not sure which you are running.

Likely just a bug. You can update the remote firmware here with what should be a fix:

Ooof, thank you, we cleaned this up, if you have multiple copies of the skipapp installed, remove them. The file location you posted is correct and I updated my post.

First suggestion is to doublecheck and make sure the remote is still correctly setup. Second is to make sure the batteries are good.

Not sure if it was due to having a previous version of the app installed (had two somehow), but to add the config.json file the path for me was actually. AppData\Local\Packages\SkipApp_sddpyax1dmvqm\LocalState Hope it helps.

This is fixed in the latest beta firmware you can try. But I have a bug in macro starting. I’m going to try and fix that tomorrow.

I want to thank you for your incredible feedback. With your help we were able to reproduce the two issues you saw, namely the random disconnect and relaunch of the 'new remote wizard'. This one has been driving me insane but I could never find a way to reproduce it reliably. App updates are automatically done within the app, if you launch it, the app will check. If you are subscribed to the beta forums, you should get notifications when I create a thread. We've released a new version, hopefully this is going to be a lot better: https://forum.flirc.tv/index.php?/topic/10385-skip-app-v0966-beta/ Please post version specific feedback there. Will lock this thread in deprecation.

Wooow. Thank you Nathan. Working perfectly. :-)

I'm a customer that is very happy with the way it is now. Activity A, B and C just switching between activities and nothing more.

Hi... you don't do anything wrong. It's a bug.

Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to switch HDMI inputs when pressing the A/B/C buttons. For example, I have an A/V receiver that has 2 HDMI inputs. When I press button A, I would like the receiver to switch to input 1, and button B to switch to input 2. This way I could automatically switch to the input source, and start controlling it rather than having to select input 2, then press B to control the second device. Is it possible to do this?

I’m going to fix this. Something got messed up with the Flirc USB codes. Should not need to pair anything. Really frustrated. It was working fine. Hopefully I’ll have an update tomorrow.

It’s not. But try going to the misc category. Perhaps it just can’t be found. After this week I’m going to concentrate on learning.

Tried this too. I see the same. I startup my shield, then the TV and then the HDMI input to 2 after 10 seconds. The Shield + TV is turned on, but the TV does not switch to HDMI input 2.

Yeah, that's definitely wrong. Obviously some kind of silly database update mistake when going from .9.5 to .9.6. Will get it fixed.

You can modify the power button macro for the activity via the Buttons panel: 2023-02-21_11-48-29.mp4

I'll fix it, thank you.

I was asking the same thing on another thread. I imagine this type of behavior will be relevant to many people. It makes sense that the TV will play a role in most activities, so it would be better if we could program the remote so that switching between activities after you're already powered-on will just switch the input (or potentially turn on some other device that wasn't part of the previous activity, or turn off a device that isn't a part of the new one). Programming a number button on each activity to switch to the relevant input, while works, is not ideal or straightforward at all. To me, that kind of defeats the purpose of the smart remote. Hope we can get this addressed. Thanks!