jason

Thank you so much for finding that, we are publishing a fix to the RC candidate within the next hour.

See note at top-> UPDATE [November 14th 2014] This has been frequently updated, too many updates and bug fixes to note. This release is still valid, and can be used to play with the new wizard, it will continue to be updated, but merged soon. Which means updates will stop and a new RC will be released. We were far from ready as I have found a lot of issues. For the time being, we have removed the Release Candidate tag. Feel free to play with it, it's stable.

What's New After discovering a really frustrating bug that would cause windows to crash, we released a few hot fixes with not much public notice. They are already live. However, in the midst of these releases, we accidentally enabled play/pause and mute toggle feature...without the firmware. So this release candidate contains the new firmware and some minor bug fixes and improvements under the hood. It will be released before the weekend. Changelog Fixed - Abstracted Network Interface and Simulator Fixed - Bugs and Stability Firmware - Supporting Toggling of Play/Pause and Mute New Toggle CleanShot 2024-10-16 at 01.06.18.mp4 Here is how this one works. If the device you mapped has a the toggle for record or play/pause, we use that by default and these buttons remain singular. However, if there is no toggle present but a distinct on/off, we use the on/off and enable the toggle for you. If it supports toggle, and on/off, we still use the toggle. If you accidentally delete one side, this will cause the remote to misbehave, you'll get a 'Red' Led error on the side it's missing. So we prevent this behavior. If you remove one side, this is considered invalid, and we assign the singular key to both states for the remote. Mac Download Windows Download Linux Download

No worries, I know it can be frustrating and my documentation is not great. I am almost done revamping this so it's released with new versions. Please do keep me posted and let me know if you have any feedback or questions. I'm happy to hop on a call if it makes things easier.

I bought a remote, I'll take a look when it comes. Send that config when you have a chance.

Yeah, can you also save and post your skip config?

Yes, I hear you, I'm just naked without my simulator. But I have started initial planning. As I think about how to handle device states in smart activity switching... I think a good compromise for forcing a specific action like 'power up' or 'power down' of an activity would be to do this via long press. So yes, in that regards, but not as feature for each button...yet.

Thanks for the great feedback, smarter activity switching is coming in beta release very shortly. We are trying to fix all the issues with the new beta candidate with an improved wizard experience. I understand regarding the 'record' into an existing device. I've given a lot of thought about this. We will do something to make this easier. But I prioritize what we're working on based on feedback. Again, I'll have a release candidate with smarter activity switching soon, I need my simulator working again with the GUI and am waiting to get this fixed while we address other bigger bugs. Thanks again.

I'm unfortunately not holding on a machine that I can test it on. Flirc USB should work, Skip wont without a bunch of work...

Can you send a pic of the remote that it came with that works? Could be something else. Modulation frequency or timing.

Yes, you can do what you need, but please read my explanation above of how flirc usb works. I'm really sorry, I've re-read everything, I still do not see where you were explaining that you wanted to use the skip and flirc together to control media on the computer in a browser. Only that it wasn't working with the computer. But without context, I only understood that to be you could not set it up. The remote is a universal remote, it's meant to control anything IR. Flirc USB emulates keyboards and HID (human interface devices). You HAVE to pair it for it to work. By itself, without any setup, it's not going to do anything. It's going to receive an IR code from the remote, and do nothing. You need to use my pairing software to configure it to your liking. You are not using the correct app. SkipApp loads profiles on the remote control. When random things were happening like 'print screen', it's because these are pre-loaded on Flirc USB so you don't have to pair them. However, as you mentioned, they are not going to function correctly. For example, a key that might do something within PLEX, does print screen in windows. Download the flirc usb software. You can record remote control keys as keyboard keys. If you know what pauses the movie, like spacebar, pair the button on the remote with spacebar. Check out controllers->media keys. Here are global hid keys which should work for various apps on windows. The specific keyboard keys are dependent on what you are using on your computer. No keyboard or hid device will be able to control the browser window while not in focus that I know about. VLC would/should work. If you want to have more control, you can use eventghost. But that's out of my knowledge. I see a lot of users and blog posting about it and flirc.

I have no idea what you are trying to achieve. Sounds like you are trying to use the Skip remote with Flirc USB? But not sure how and what you are expecting. Let me try and explain this a bit. Flirc USB emulates a HID device and or a USB keyboard. If you want to use flirc - usb on a FireTV, I have all the HID codes on the USB device. I also have custom IR codes that will not interfere with any device in your living room specifically for Flirc. Loading this profile onto skip will allow you to use your skip remote with Flirc USB. Skip sends out custom IR codes, and in turn, the FLIRC USB receives these codes and sends out the necessary HID codes to the FIRE TV for you. Automatically, nothing else should be required for flirc. If you are trying to use the remote and flirc usb on your computer, you can do this as well. Say, you are using XBMC/Kodi, no problem. Just select the SKIP / Kodi profile in the skipapp, and launch KODI on your computer. The correct Keyboard keys will be sent wihen you press the correct buttons on the remote, assuming flirc usb is plugged in. If you want to control VLC, that's no problem as well. Just load an arbitrary IR device into skip that is not in the same room. Launch the flirc usb app, and then pair the keyboard keys yourself. The flirc usb app will allow you to dynamically pair remote control keys with any arbitrary keyboard or HID key. Here is where you can get the flirc usb software: https://flirc.tv/products/flirc-usb-receiver?variant=43513067569384#spec2 I hope that helps clarify how these can be used together. Any information an what these are plugged into and how you intend to use them would be great, if I didn't help with the above.

No, it's just me, and I have to manage everything. Sorry, didn't mean to leave you hanging, just trying my best. Sounds like a configuration problem. Any button can do anything, sounds like you just need to make sure they are mapped to you're liking. I suppose what we automapped isn't correct. So please save your current file. Configure it, and then save the new file, so I can see how you changed it. CleanShot 2024-11-07 at 11.35.15.mp4 Maybe I misunderstood the problem.

Ok

wait, at the first record? That doesn't make sense. What if you do the command by itself without all the other stuff in front of it? Just do this on it's own: flirc_util.exe record_api 0x2 0xA6 If that works reliably, it's something else related to windows

try putting in a sleep 200 ms after each record. You probably have a race condition.

You can remove it by dragging it to the recycling bin that shows up: CleanShot 2024-11-05 at 19.13.12.mp4 Ive gotten in trouble in the past in a blog post when I wrote 'fuck trump' after watching him try to repeal pre-existing medical conditions 4 times (my wife and I are cancer survivors so this was certainly stressful and upsetting). So I wont make that mistake again. Oh yeah, before I forget, fuck trump.

The future for the remote is bluetooth/wifi. Once we have those, we need a mobile app. I have a small team, I don’t have the resources to do a different app for every platform. So we are using react native desktop, which microsoft is behind. Once we make the switch, it should be easy to get apps out. However, in order to have a react native desktop app, microsoft’s compiler only creates a UWP app, which is limited in permissions. Can you attach your log file in the app directory? Maybe there will be a clue in there. Regarding using the remote disconnected, if you press the 4 dot color button, does anything happen?

I'm so very sorry for all your frustrations. I hope we can connect if you are still seeing these issues. Are the batteries plugged in and the right way? Both positives should be pointing up. They should have been wrapped in plastic, can you confirm they are new? Regarding the driver issue, you can install the driver manually here The app should have discovered the issue by itself and downloaded, and prompted you to install the driver. You can try doing it manually on the system in question. Please let me know if that doesn't work. Bottom line, it's all windows fault. We are binded to an application within 'UWP (universal windows app)'. They encforce security policies and sometimes outside apps effect our devices. It's a horrible mess and I regret using the technology we've used because of the issues windows randomly creates for us. Please let me know how these things go, I'll go at any length to solve these issues.

The repeat isn't the same as pressing the button, letting go, and pressing again, it's how many times the signal is sent out. It really only matters in a macro, but is also a minimum. So if I press quickly a button, it will send 3 packets. The TV wont receive this as 3 button presses. It's like a computer. The duration and repeat pattern depends on the TV. Does that make any sense?

Do you have the original remote? Have you tried recording from the original remote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeOCCrgJ8Zw If you do, please let us know if you get stuck so I can address it.

Can you post your config? Yes, the repeats are odd numbers at the moment.

Can you zip up all he contents in here: %localappdata%\Packages\SkipApp_nk6j7xazwq5t8\ Hit start->run and past that, go up a directory. Then zip up the skip directory and post that. Otherwise we have nothing to reproduce this.

What firmware version are you running?

You need to manually force an update of firmware. Remove batteries. Press and hold these buttons together when you plug into the software, it should update it. If it flashes red and the software doesn't detect it, let me know.