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Sorry for not replying, I'm a wee bit tired. We got them in Tuesday and have been powering through them. I have a few hundred left to go. I have the entire "team" helping. Don't get mad if your label is crooked.

Sorry for being quiet. We've made progress, can reproduce the issue, and are working on trying some solutions. Big shout out to Michael (Misha) who was two steps ahead of us and did incredible finding nuggets of information scattered on the internet. Seems like a number of applications, virus programs, system apps, Steam (yes, fucking steam), changes a field in the system registry for every USB HID Device's "restricted" boolean from "false" to "true". Why? No idea. Uninstalling the application does not revert the registry change, which validates what some of you experienced. Steam can install advanced drivers to help support controllers like XBOX-360, and this is what changes the field for that specific app. We are trying to create a version of the app that detects this, and updates the field. But this is not so simple. UWP apps don't have permission, and we have to do a run-around. But this seems possible, and the path of least resistance. We have some other ideas, but this seems like the best approach. Un. Fucking. Believable.

Hi all! It's been requested that we provide some kind of easy way to get notifications about new updates to Skip and the Skip App. Seemed like the easiest way to do this was to create a subgroup of our mailing list that was specifically for Skip news and changelogs. For the most part, we pretty rarely send out a lot of emails, so this will be a bit of a change for us and a learning experience. So if you sign up and don't like the frequency of emails (too many, too few, etc.) feel free to comment below. We want this to be a collaborative process. Signup form can be found on the Skip page under downloads: https://flirc.tv/products/skip1s-remote-universal-remote-control?variant=43489094729960#spec2

Glad to see the first Linux version of the Skip app become available for download! The app launches but does not appear to recognize the remote when it is plugged in via USB. Details are included in a separate thread <opening this thread in the Beta feedback section of the forum.>

Very nice hardware, but: Most new Skip 1s users have probably had extensive experiences with a programmable remotes, like the Logitech (or another brand) and where looking to replace those. Hence the Skip 1s. In this relatively young form I've already found several users having trouble with changing Activities, as did I. Changing an activity from A to B or C should also be able to change the HDMI input on your TV as well as changing the power states of used/unused devices, without using the Top Power button. When pressing buttons A B C, the most basic function they should perform is changing those parameters. Given your users past experience, it's also what they expect those programmable button can do. There should be no workarounds necessary, as I've seen posted. That's not intuitive at all. An experienced may be able to use that, but imagine what the WAF would be like. So, I'll ask the developers directly; Will, in the very near future, the ABC buttons be made programmable to do that and not just via the Power button? Some other issues I've encountered: When my Windows PC or my Laptop resumes from a sleep state, the remote remains disconnected. Reinserting the USB cable makes no difference. You'll need to restart the software again. When creating a new activity by choosing a default one and then renaming it, the textbox looses focus if you'll enter a space. I'm using a Nvidia Shield. Why is there a limited number of programmable options? There's no (context)menu button for instance and what does 'Shield' do? Maybe enable the option to hide the tips window (Seasoned users would have known all its features after a while) For those who don't, re-enable the tooltip as to what the 4dot menu in the buttons panel section does (as seen on previous video's)

Opened a thread for this USB detection issue in the Beta feedback section of the forum. https://forum.flirc.tv/index.php?/topic/11414-linux-v0980-skip-app-usb-plugin-unrecognized/

Quite depressing as I hit refresh every day. They took a bit to clear customs, left china, they are in or over Japan now?. No expected delivery time. Last time with the same shipping service, they got here in 4 days. I feel defeated every time I make an estimate. They are on their way, I have no idea if they'll get here before the end of the week, or next week. I don't know anything anymore. = ( I'm just waiting with everyone else now.

Letting everyone know that they were shipped yesterday, picked up, and there is movement on the tracking.

I'm sorry, it's been increasing You are awesome and completely validated. I'm really sorry. It's been really rough. I'm working with a huge supplier and I'm lucky they are working with me, but I'm at their mercy. Dates are meaningless to them. I get promised a date, we go past it, they claim there is a problem, we solve it, then it's something else, like a defect in a part made, we solve it. I'm shipping again, I started two weeks ago. They should have sent all 3,500 at once, but they are a bunch of fuckheads and I'm getting them in small batches. I'm sending the same day they come out, and I have shipped 300 since this started a couple of days ago. I'm being promised another 2,000 will be ready to ship to me on Tuesday. I believe they will this time because they were waiting on USB cables they forgot to order, and I know they have them from the supplier because I escalated directly with them. Last shipment was received in about 4-5 days. They got the cables, they have them in the boxes, and we have a pick up scheduled. But I've held my breath before. Since starting, I've shipped close to 2,000 units (yup, me). Once I get the rest, every single pre-order should ship and I should have no more stock issues. I'll have help, and it should take about two days to ship them all out. The last thing I said to my CM who's managing the schedule was: "I have broken the trust and confidence of my customers. I have never done this or had this happen with a supplier." She had no response. I'll never do this again. I'll have units in hand prior to selling. It's the worst feeling watching someone pull the rug out from underneath you. Lesson learned. But, their quality assurance has been by far the best of any supplier I've ever worked with. Usually, I get angry because they fuck something up. So far everything has been very well received. Will be back by tuesday to confirm shipment. Grateful for the support along with the criticism. Well deserved.

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

I absolutely love the Skip 1S. Building a new hardware remote is hard. Making an interface to that remote that is easy to use is really hard. I know, I've tried. Please take my observations with nothing but respect for the work you've done. General: I love that you can export your remote configuration to a JSON file. This is hugely powerful, beyond troubleshooting. Everything is right there in plain text glory. With access to the configuration I could Clone an activity. I exported the remote configuration, opened it up in VSCode, copied the A activity entry, updated the Activity ID to B, reimported, and it just worked. Change the color of the devices in the activities to match between activities. Create a repo for my remote configuration in github. Now, when I (inevitably) screw up my configuration, it's safely versioned. The developers have been amazingly responsive to forum users. It feels very much like when I was part of the JP-1 community. The remote is (mostly) well-designed, with a good selection of buttons without being overwhelming Software: You can't program macros to activity keys (turn on X, Y, and Z, and then switch to Watch TV activity). I asked about this on another post, but this is my biggest issue. When I sit down to watch TV, I don't want to press one button and then have to press another. I want it to turn on with a single button press and just be ready. The Power button seems to maintain some sort of state, but it doesn't always seem correct. Ideally, I could program a macro to the power button as well, as the only time I'd use it would be to power off everything. I can kind of do that, but it is a pain. The colors between activities don't match the devices, so activity A with my Yamaha receiver is Red, but on activity B it is Blue. I couldn't find a way to adjust the color in the app, but I discovered I could in the JSON. Each Activity gets its own device list, which is strange to me. I have one set of devices and I would only use the remote in that one location. Being able to add devices to the app independent of an activity would be more usable for me, then I could mix and match devices without having to re-add them. Can't see what device is currently on any activity (e.g. the name of the selected IR codes). I could in the JSON, but not in the app. If you go into the wizard on an existing activity and click one of the already added devices, it takes you to the "Do you want to set up a new device" screen. Am I replacing the device, adding a new one? I'm not sure. The last page in the Activity Wizard is "Your Activity Summary", which asks "Does everything looks okay?"[sic]. What am I supposed to do on this page? It looks like I should be able to configure the power button options, but I can't change anything. There should be a way to search the button panel instead of having to scroll, hoping you find what you are looking for. If you are in the button panel and open a button on the remote, selecting another device in that activity will close the button. So if I'm setting up a multi-device macro on a button, I have to open the button each time I switch devices. A long press option would be nice, at least on the activity buttons. This would allow the remote to handle up to 6 devices. I wish there was a way to upload the JSON directly to the remote without having to import into the app first. I'd also like to be able to directly sync with git any changes I made. One can dream. Hardware: The activity buttons on the remote look like they have little stickers on them instead of printing The color button icon on the remote is off center. The remote is too damn slick in my hands. Some texture can make for a better user experience. The media buttons are spread apart. The STOP and RECORD buttons are at the bottom of the remote, but the FF, REW, PLAY are at the top. Like phones, thumb-ability is important in a remote. Being able to hold the remote comfortably in one hand is important. Being able to rest the remote in your hand in a braced position (bottom corner in the palm of the hand) makes it easier to use. The color wheel is just outside my (long) thumb rang. I can comfortably reach the bottom part of it, but the rest is outside my reach unless I shift the remote down. I can adjust my grip, but moving the wheel down would be the more usable solution for most people.

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.

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.

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

SkipApp 09.92: When I change an activity with the wizzard, all manually assigned commands are removed from the buttons. This makes only sense for removed devices, but not for still existing devices. Please save the manually assigned commands, so we don't have to assign them again and again.

Hi, I already get it that the A, B, and C buttons have no influence on control state, and that they only remap all the other buttons of the remote (so they are more "modes" than "activities"). But I'm a bit confused with the behavior of the power button: When setting up an activity, I can define explicit "Power Up" and "Power Down" sequences of steps. Most of my devices have a power toggle button (versus discrete power state codes), so it is very important for me that the power up/down state of the remote matches the real state of the devices (otherwise devices will end up out of power sync state with the remote state). How can I figure out from the remote interface if the remote assumes it is on the "up" or "down" state (and consequently if the behavior of pressing the power button should be to trigger the "power down" or "power up" action)? If there's no way, is there any way for me to force an explicit action irrespective of the power state according to the remote, for example, always trigger the "power up" action on a short press and the "power down" action on a long press?

Hi, so from what I can see there's been no response from any member as listed in the staff directory for ages on any of the many topics and issues that have been raised. Is this project dead like the batteries in my remote? It takes very little to post something, even if it's an update saying other life priorities have come up and you have to take step back for a period; at least let us know. As it stands my remote is effectively useless because it never last more than a few days on batteries. I can even take the batteries out and use in other remotes sometimes so it's not simply the batteries are completely flat, they're just drained to a point lower than the remote needs. From what I can tell many people have provided crucial feedback to help work out some of the issues, and at this point it just feels like you're using people for free testing on a product that really isn't fit for purpose at the moment. Just be honest about where the product is and your commitment to it.

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.

@Nathan @jason Thanks for the email update, just wanted to feedback that it worked and recieved. Much appreciated.

@Nathan Thanks for the reply. When starting out will mailing lists, it's hard to get the first ones right, that fit with you and your customers (takes a few goes). One thought that might make life easier, just give a brief summary in the email and then link to the respective posts for the details, then MailChimp will give you stats on what links people open from the email, not just if they got the message (and maybe opened if they allow loading of external content). I've mentioned this before I'm a fan of regular updates (even just monthly). As then it's expected and Vs not knowing if you an email got lost or what it just nothing happened. I hope that helps and do look forward to seeing what comes out. Good luck

+1 this as well, though it doesn't appear to be a UI issue. At least not in how it's displayed. I was able to get around the 3 limit by simply editing the config file (since it's beautiful editable text), and the UI did show more the 4+ buttons I assigned to that action. It also synced and worked fine. So for anyone who needs this functionality now, Notepad seems to do the trick and in my experience doesn't cause any issues.

It appears from this forum that many people are having issues with mappings. I've read that self-learning is coming soon. Can someone please provide an approximate timing window for this? weeks, or many months?

Yes, like the title of this thread, basically a regex (remove pos/neg signs, add commas) and add preceeding '0,'. Next version Jason releases likely to address/simplify. w/kind regards, Rob

I ordered mine in December 2022 and still waiting at least have the courtesy to email your customers with an update as you have our email address from when we ordered.

I’m going to help you out with better tools in a sec. I have another app that does a better job at this.

I configured the power on/off macros with "TV Power On" instead of toggle for that specific reason, so that even if the remote fell out of sync with the state of the devices it shouldn't screw it up by powering off something I'm trying to power on. Unfortunately, the remote seems to have a terrible memory for states. Powering on an activity works fine but then if I try to power off the same activity an hour later (without switching activities at all), it still tries to power on instead of powering off. I have to press the power button a second time to get the power off sequence. I have no idea why the remote forgets it powered on the activity so quickly and I'm really disappointed in that.

Right now we suggest just adding your HDMI switcher to one of the unused buttons on the activity. So if Playstation is on HDMI 2, you assign HDMI 2 to the 2 button on the remote in the playstation activity, flip over to that activity, and hit the 2 button. Recalling and updating states is planned.

I think what @LouP is saying is that if you have an activity already setup on the remote with, let's say, a TV, and an A/V receiver, for example, but then later you realize you want to add another device to that same activity, like an Xbox or streaming stick or something, the only way to add another device is to go back into the wizard, but then once you've selected the new device and continued through the steps of the wizard, any custom button mappings you had set up (like assigning rare misc functions to number keys or something like that) get reset to their default mappings. I have experienced this several times as well while fiddling and tweaking my setup.

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

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.

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

Because I've been struggling to figure out the right configuration for each of my devices, I've had to create and delete activities many, many times. It would be a huge timesaver if instead, when I edited an Activity, opened the Wizard, clicked on the device, then clicked on the device type, that I could edit the model. The model input field seems editable, but it isn't. I can clear out the contents, but if I tab out of the control, the original contents reappear. I can type in whatever I like, but when I tab out, the original contents reappear. It would be great if I got the dropdown choices again, so I could quickly switch.

I think this is mostly the right solution (I have an LG C1 but I use a Chromecast with Google TV instead of the LG apps). The only issue I expect would be that in some apps, if you've moved to highlight some UI button other than the play/pause button while something is playing, then let the UI fade out, then click the Skip's Play/Pause button, it might click whatever button you had highlighted instead of just doing a play or a pause. Depends if the app keeps other buttons selected after the UI fades out.

It just happened again, I pressed power, no response from the remote, after that i pressed activity A, again no response, then attached the remote to the computer and downloaded the logs, attached to this message. Edit: after i downloaded the remotes logs, the remote worked normally when connected to the computer, after disconnecting the remote from the computer the remote continued not responding, I then replaced the batteries and the remote again worked normally. I then realized... maybe the occasionally remote is not responding is an indication of an almost empty battery? Perhaps a good idea to have a battery indication ? Just a wild thought to a battery indication. Press color wheel + center button = send the action to this combo + light up the 4 wheel leds = full battery, light up 1 of the 4 led = low battery, color can be the personal color. flirc-remote-control20230219.log

Yeah, you are right, trying to push out an update right now. And then I'll post our plans for the next one.

I'll fix it, thank you.

@virtualshockwill have a fix posted really soon, everything is taking a lot longer with random things coming up, but I'm really almost there for a ton of stuff

Pretty much this. Almost every brand reuses codes over and over again. Because this picking of group codes is clearly uncomfortable for a lot of people, we're looking into solutions to match specifically with exact models.

I've googled this problem, and there is no single solution. From rolling back drivers, to new cables, disabling to re-enabling the device. It's all over the place. My favorite is: "I fixed it!", and then I can only imagine microsoft killed them because there is no fucking follow-up.

Definitely on the feature list

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.

Windows Instructions -- ** UPDATED ** Run the SkipApp Installer.exe, right click, "Run as Administrator". We are aware of all the windows warnings. We are improving this and will get the app signed with a better installer. Mac Instructions Just like any other mac app, mount the SkipApp-0.9.0-mac-universal.dmg and drag the application over to your applications folder. Known Issues We are 100% focused on stability and have sidelined some of our animations until the app matures. There are some known bugs we have prioritized, and listed below. Power key limited to 8 keys total. Will be fixed in the next release Windows Performance Issues likely due to redux Occasional glitch in graphics while re-arranging macro list which needs an app restart 8 Device Colors can be hard to distinguish Drop Down's have quirks Still improving automappings Some missing flirc devices in our database Note - Exported configs have the suffix `.skip` but is just a json file. Rename to look. Please remember to leave version specific feedback in this thread, and always let us know if you are using Windows or Mac. ** EDIT ** - This thread is now locked in favor of the new thread for our latest version.

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.

The manual https://flirc.gitbooks.io/flirc-instructions/content/installation/linux-installation-guide.html says to add this to your sources.list file to be able to download the .deb packages deb http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64 binary/ This is incorrect. The correct setting, which is hidden inside the install.sh script is more like this deb [trusted=yes] https://apt.fury.io/flirc/ / Please can you get rid of the incorrect information and point people to the correct location for the install.sh which is 'http://apt.flirc.tv/install.sh' as explained here https://flirc.tv/ubuntu-software-installation-guide