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Greetings, Now that AppImages are becoming more common for Linux deployment, users need to manage all of them. That's where applications like AppMan, Pho!, or Gear Lever come in (by far the three most popular; AppMan is the best in my end-user-personal-experience-opinion ;-) ). Most of the managers use master lists like this one below to find install paths and updates: https://portable-linux-apps.github.io/apps It's easy to contribute to the lists (https://github.com/Portable-Linux-Apps/Portable-Linux-Apps.github.io/pulls ) . The goal is ultimately to help users keep the Skip 1s AppImage up-to-date and manage their AppImage install of the Skip 1s client. However, I believe it ultimately helps the Skip 1s project as it allows another entity to help manage AppImage installs and updates. I was going to submit a request directly to the list, but when I go to the skip 1s website then click "Downloads" which scrolls down the screen where under the Linux banner I click Download yet again, there's a check box when then opens a link with a token to update.flirc.tv that in turn downloads a compressed image version on a site that asks for user/password if one tries any other variation to see available versions ... which makes me uncomfortable asking the project lists to support such a link. I believe it is worth both the projects time and in the end-users best interest to have another entity manage the update process, but that's me. I ask that it at least be considered as an option. Also. When on that download for the AppImage, there's a link for "Release Notes". That link points to here: https://nathan-betzens-organization.gitbook.io/skip-remote-guide/ but is redirected to here https://skip-org.gitbook.io/skip-remote-guide yet there is no "Release Notes". In fact, try searching for them and they don't exist. No results for "Notes". That link should probably be fixed, updated, and/or removed. :-) Thanks!

I never could get the profile to load from the remote. I have two remotes and neither one of them would load the profile. However, I did get the profiles from the old laptop and imported them. A few feedback items. 1) That was slightly annoying. The application is essentially expecting you to walk through the remote for the first time. So you're forced to go through it for a while until you can finally exit it. Then you can go over to the settings and import. I feel like I can't be the first one to have dealt with the import process on a new laptop... but that is def something that should be added to the "this needs some polish" list. 2) For those of us with multiple remotes, I was hoping to import multiple settings. Nope! Doing that simply over-rides the existing profile!! You can't import multiple profiles for multiple remotes. You MUST connect each remote, give it a name, and step through the wizard until it lets you cancel out - THEN go to the settings and import the the profile for the remote. Handling the profiles for multiple remotes could use "some polish" as well. 3) I tested to see if this was a Linux AppImage issue or an issue for everyone. Borrowed a friends Mac and the process wasn't any better. What WAS better, however, the alert telling me there was a firmware update! On Linux AppImage the icon for update is a perpetual spinning circle. Mac, almost immediately after plugging it in I found out there was a firmware update. Can't find a changelog anywhere... but found a forum post saying to sign up for email updates... and when I do I get "Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form." Awesome... :-/ ... So anyway... a little bummed about the Linux AppImage not pulling in firmware updates, a little bummed about the changelog/email notifications, but very impressed that the firmware updated super smooth on a mac (but I don't have one, don't want one, and won't buy one for two remotes... so hopefully the process is better by the time I have to update the firmware again...) Thanks! [edit: tried multiple browsers then a VPN and the signup finally worked. *shrug*]

I've had my remote working great for about a year. In that time I've replaced my laptop. Now I've had to replace my TV - which means it's time for swapping the profile too. Except... the profile isn't loading from the remote. The app wants to create a new profile for the remote. But I don't want to lose the configurations for the other two devices (one that I heavily customized and don't want to recreate). I /think/ I can get the profile off the old laptop. But is there any other way for me to pull the profile from the remote? Surely I'm not the first to need to pull the existing remote profile from the remote after changing laptops... but it's not showing up in my searches. I'm using Ubuntu and the latest Appimage. Thanks!

@Nathan My kids broke the old remote... which means, I now need the skip 1s to be useful... I updated kodi. I updated the SkipApp. I updated the firmware. I updated everything I possibly could. Still the skip 1s is abhorrently slow. You pondered if this was a first gen flirc problem and said that you had zero lag with a modern flirc. So I bought one. Just showed up. The exact some problem. A brand new flirc with a fully updated skip... and it's still painfully slow. So... what can I do to figure this out? Thanks! [Edit] Dang-dabbit.... So I had a thought. I just updated to the latest App and Firmware. I've had issues before with other products where after a firmware update, I needed to wipe and reset the configurations. So I just tried that. Guess what? The modern flirc started working perfectly.... which made me wonder about the first gen. So I plugged it back in.... now it works perfectly.... Sigh.... Oh well. The lesson learned? If anyone else is having this issue - update to the latest skip 1s firmware, dump all the configs, and set it up again. Thank you for all the work you (and everyone else) is doing to make the skip 1s and flirc ecosystem better.

I had some time to mess about with this tonight. Had big updates on the App and the firmware :-) The downstairs Haier TV? Works wonderfully now. Huzzah! The downstairs Kodi with the MCE adapter? Functions tremendously better. Enough so that I believe I can start using the Skip1s regularly now! Huzzah! The upstairs AOC TV? Still works wonderfully! The upstairs Kodi with the first gen Flirc? Um... Yeah. It's worse. It's still P...A...I...N...F...U...L...L...Y...S...L...O...W...! Before I could hit the button five times and eventually it would make it through each of the five buttons. However now? If I hit too many too fast, I get one button press then the remote lights up in multicolors, then turns red, then turns off. The only way to get the remote to do anything afterwards is to pull the batteries for 10 seconds. Serious question, is there hope for the first gen Flirc? It works well with the universal remote so I don't want to throw it away, but if I just need to buy a newer one and e-recycle the old to use my remote then I suppose that is what I will do. Ideally I'd like to keep using it so if there is hope for a future enhancement then I will keep on hoping...

Greetings @Nathan, Any thoughts on the slowness of the 1S as shown in that video? Thanks!

Greetings @Nathan! Finally got some time to mess about with this. Updated the firmware on the upstairs remote. The AOC TV is now working perfectly. Zero lag. Works great. Going to "hide" the AOC remote so that I start test driving the Skip 1S on a regular basis. As for the upstairs Kodi which is "RPi4 with a first gen Flirc (clear plastic - a bit of a bubble)" and was painfully slow 5-10 second lag time, well, mostly good news! The average now between button press and menu action is close to 1 second now. Which is far slower then the universal remote I was using but isn't unusable in slowness. However, there is this thing that if I hit the button too fast, each action takes a long time. I wrote a paragraph and didn't feel like I was explaining it well so here's a video. :-) I'm about to start on the downstairs now. Thanks! ~Stack~ [Edit half an hour later] Ran out of time before kids got up from nap.... Downstairs had some success but not to the point I'll use it regularly yet. The Haier TV, I still can't find button options that let me scroll through the menus. But it's more responsive with the latest firmware. The Kodi system, I have WAY more success with the MCE then I did the first time. It too is slow and has the same problem as upstairs Kodi. Also, the menu options are just enough different that it's getting annoying between the MCE and the Kodi profiles... I need to spend some time mapping them out so that the buttons on the upstairs do the same as they do on the downstairs. So... improvements! Huzzah! :-D Skip1s_demo_slow.mp4

Greetings, I'm sorry for the delay. I've been out on work related travel. I will check as soon as I can. Thanks for responding!

Greetings, First, I fully recognize there's a lot to work out so please don't take this as a rant nor anything else personal - just a recounting of my issues that we can hopefully work through for the next guy down the line. :-) TL;DR: 1. Upstairs TV works great with a slight lag 2. Skip 1s Remote feedback - Damn I wish it had a few more buttons; esp a dedicated subtitle. 3. Skip 1s Remote + Flirc 1gen + Kodi - Damn it's slow... miserably and painfully slow. 4. Downstairs TV - Haier le55b1381 - Dismal failure + lag. 5. Downstairs Kodi with Microsoft MCE IR - complete 100% failure. 6. Skip 1s Remote feedback - button glow configuration would be really nice when in a dark room... for hopefully obvious reasons :-D I bought two remotes because I've got an upstairs and downstairs setup. Let's start with upstairs which is a TV and a Kodi box. It's an AOC TV - found it in the App DB and added it. Great! It works! No complaints other then there is a noticeable lag between this and the AOC remote. By which I mean on the AOC remote: *press* *action* However on the skip 1S it's more like *press* *a small lag less then a second* *action*. But hey, TV works with all the functionality I use anyway. A win! So let's switch to Kodi. This is an RPi4 with a first gen Flirc (clear plastic - a bit of a bubble). Found it in the remote DB and added it. Eh... it kinda worked?? OK, first - the skip 1s has WAY less buttons then the generic remote I was using. This is both good and bad. Damn do I wish there was a dedicated subtitle button after only a few minutes of messing with it... But more then that, I found I had to "program" the interface with the app to do things I want. There's gotta be a better way of overloading buttons... I'm programming the number buttons to do things like bounce between the Kodi screen and the video playing or overloading the directional pad to skip both chapters and do jump a heads (which I KNOW I'm going to accidentally do the one that I didn't want to do and then get really pissed off during a show when my wife asks "can't we just go back like 10 seconds?" and it jumps back a full chapter then exits out.... grrrr... I'm pre-getting annoyed at the thought of buttons that do too much... :-D ) Anyway... going from a remote with dedicated buttons to collapsing down to just a few... I'm very hopeful the community comes up with better solution to having a good Kodi layout then overloading the number buttons... However, I must admit - I didn't get as far in my testing of buttons and layouts as I wanted because the Skip 1s is MISERABLY S....L....OOOO....OOOOO....W....!! Most button presses are - not joking, not exaggerating - 5 to 10 seconds before the action actually happens. And heaven forbid if I hit too many at once - a HUGE lag followed by a bunch of presses /really/ quick together. However, if I switch back to the generic media center remote I've been using for years? Instant response. So it isn't Kodi, it isn't the RPi4, it isn't the first gen Flirc.... it's the Skip 1S. OK, after an hour I'm done messing with the upstairs. I'm going downstairs! Welp. That was nothing short of a colossal failure.... To start with the TV, it's a Haier le55b1381. There are like 6 code options for Haier and absolutely NO indicators of which I should use. I went through all of them. Code 1 - turns tv on and I can change volume and I can bring up the input menu (but I can't actually change the input) and I can bring up the settings (but I can't navigate in them at all). Code 5 - the only other one that turns on the tv and I can do almost everything Code 1 does, however, I can't change volume but I can move in the settings menu (but I can't select a change). I tried really hard to look up the tv and the remote - nothing tells me which of those Code options to select. I also noticed the lag here too. It's still under a second but it's slightly more noticeable then the AOC TV. Then to the Kodi device fail. It's another RPi4, however, this time the receiver is an old Microsoft Media Center Entertainment setup... kinda... It's the IR605/A receiver from an old Microsoft Media Center Entertainment remote, but the remote actually died years ago. However, the xbox 360 remote has always worked perfectly with it and Kodi so... *shrug*... why not keep using it? Well, I think I found my answer... After nearly 45 minutes just futzing with this portion alone I'm wishing I'd just bought a new Flirc receiver. Hell, I still might just buy a new Flirc IR if that's just the easier answer and *IF* I can get the dang TV to work... So, I know this is beta but three hours in and I was hoping for more of a win then replacing the upstairs TV remote. Especially since it's the downstairs TV remote that chomps through 2xAA batteries every 6 months for doing almost nothing then a few button presses (gah, I want that remote gone... ;-). But the lag between pressing a button and something happening, that's gotta get fixed. Lastly, how do I keep the light glow on longer? It's a "oh hey, buttons light up! Oh, and now they are gone." In a dim room with a new remote - I can't see the damn button placement! I dug through the settings and found I could change the color of the remote led (whooo?? *shrug*)... but where is the "when a button is pressed, keep glowing for 10 seconds" setting? Am I just misunderstanding something? Thanks for listening to me recount my evening putzing with the Skip 1S...