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Thanks to Wesley, I spent about 7 hours on his machine, and once again, it's Microsoft's fault. Short answer Windows Shipped Broken Software in their Last Update Explanation They now support something called dynamic lighting through human interface devices. Unfortunately, they auto load logitech software that runs when you plug in something that 'may' be in the same category. Logitech software runs and checks to see if it's their device. When they check, they open it, and they never fucking close it. So now no matter what I do, no matter what I try, I can not open my own device because of logitech. Solution Kill the processes Step 1 hit Start and type Services and hit enter. Step 2 Scroll down and find "logitech lamparray service" and double click it. Step 3 Click Stop to stop the service Change the Startup Type to: Disabled Step 4 Unplug the remote and Plug it back in. --- I understand your frustration. But believe me, as someone who has spent 4 years on this product only to keep getting fucked by windows, I assure you, I'm more frustrated. I constantly hault sales because of their bullshit. They force me into a sandboxed envirornment and keep doing stuff like this. I spent almost all night trying to come up with a work around. There is none. I don't have permissions to kill the service within the app. I don't have permission to open the device in shared mode. I tried running an outside program that talks to the USB device but creates a sock connection between the app and the external app but I don't have permission. I'm so fucking angry with them I can't put into words how much of a waist of time this has been. I'm on week 3 of windows only debugging. The only thing I can do now is detect the issue ,and bring up a page to the user and walk them through these instructions.

** May 03, 2024 ** - Updating links Fairly close to a release candidate. List of what's still left is at the bottom. Critical - Learning requires both remotes to be facing each other and about 1 inch apart. Further detail here along in previous releases: Alpha 1 Alpha 2 Alpha 3 Alpha 4 Alpha 5 Here is how it works: CleanShot 2023-12-15 at 22.54.49.mp4 You need to be using the included firmware in order to do any recording. The version embedded is v4.13.2 Changelog Improved - Many Recording bugs Improved - Decoding Library Improved - Panasonic Decoding Improved - Ability to capture x1 signals automatically Improved - Manual Recording Overrides Improved - Logging Improved - User Feedback and Messaging during recording Improved - Bad capture detection and feedback Database - Updates Fixed - Windows - Unable to connect with Server Fixed - Bottom and Top bar z-index during wizard Firmware - Battery Improvements Mac Download Windows Download Linux - We understand the issue, and have one more bug to solve. We're working on it. Firmware Update If you are not presented with update dialog, please follow the directions outlined here. What's Next User config optimizations More bad capture edge cases we are aware of Updated Decoding Library Save the button layout for later recall or editing Save the button layout for user config export Fix linux

Thanks, confirmed I downloaded using the main link above and it includes the learning firmware.

I may be able to detect the service and stop it manually... I'm trying to create an app for test. If anyone has some time today, I would love some help testing this approach. I can't reproduce this locally so am dependent on everyone's kindness and generosity with this.

@jason Thanks for looking at this, and thanks to @Wesley for providing the platform to get to this stage. Can confirm the craziness I had all fixed by stopping the service. No pop up asking for permissions each time which I guess is the big red flag for the future if people have problems. Why these remotes are being picked up as a possible logitech device is strange for sure, I just hope this confirmation and thanks, helps in some small degree. And I do hope you can take a moment to relax and know people are thankful for your support.

Click the three dots in the bottom right corner. Go to settings and accessibility. It’s in there for convenience now.

v4.12.26 fixed my lock-up problem. Thank you.

Yep. Bottom of the case is plastic and there are enough gaps around the body that wifi has not been a problem ever since onboard wifi was introduced.

Thanks for the video and thanks for the solution. Just wanted to chime in and let you know that everything works on my end now as well :)

it didn't work. I switch from "power on" to "power toggle" , for the Pioneer vsx-1021 receiver, and it worked. Thanks for your support.

Downloads: SkipApp Tool SkipUpdate for Config Files Description: Thanks for your patience, this was a lot of work. You'll need special versions of software for now. But here is a summary of what you do. Use our app as you would. When you are ready to 'sync', you'll export your configuration with a special process. Enable special export by pressing 'tab' 3 times while in the tools tab Click Export Remote Configuration Save to Disk Open up skipUpdate Tool and load the saved config Sync Here is a video demo and a link if the embedded video doesn't play. CleanShot 2024-04-12 at 19.02.48.mp4

The batteries are probably low or at least one of them is low. When this happens to me, I usually find one battery is good and the other is completely drained.

You can set input selection on power up, just drag it to the power option. That said, yeah, having this on the activity buttons is much more intuitive design.

That's the old way, it's now an option in the app. May well do the same thing.

I am in a smilar boat. I bought this remote with Flirc USB. So I can plug the Flirc USB in my PC to use/replicate Windows main functions and Kodi. At the same time use my Chromecast Google TV plugged on my TV. But without additional device support (or adding manually) on Skip App (Google TV, Android TV etc.) or even more importantly the external copy/learning function like the other learning remotes (e.g this one) this remote not good use for us. I hope next version of Skip App supports more devices, or even add the learning functionality to the upgraded version of this remote will be make one of the best.

One thing that's really frustrating is having to add the same devices to each activity over and over again. This is particularly annoying when it doesn't work with the selected configuration (which can only be chosen at random because it's a group of devices and there's no way to figure out which group your device belongs to without trying it), so you have to go through each activity to remove and then re-add the device with the issues described above. Couldn't the app take the more versatile approach of adding and testing the devices in one section, and then assigning those devices to each activity instead?

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.