PageUp/Down bug in GUI under various layouts

[Ashardis]

Hey there.

 

I just experienced some visually confusing stuff in the GUI.

 

If you select any other controller than "Minimalist", you can move the key layout up and down by pressing Page Up/Down.

 

It doesn't seem to conflict with anything, it's just annoying when you're trying to program the remote with PageUp/PageDown and it subtracts from the "user experience".

 

 

[Chris!]

Yup, looks like it.

 

I'll keep an eye on the new beta's so it doesn't creep it's way into the next release

 

Thanks for reporting, How are you find Flirc in general though?

[Ashardis]

Thanks for answering, Chris - I've been on hols, so couldn't reply. I'll give the feedback here, you can move it to a more relevant forum/trim this post as you please.

 

I have actually had a fair amount of trouble with the flirc. I can program it wonderfully easy and put it to use with no problems.

 

Then.. after 3-6 hours of use, one of the buttons will "stick". Eg. I watch a few movies, then I push left on the remote and flirc sends out left endlessly. If I then press something else, eg. right or any other key that I've programmed in, THAT key repeats itself endlessly. I can get flirc to repeat any of the programmed buttons endlessly in this mode.

 

I could understand if there was some spurios IR signals that got in and triggered one key, but repeating whatever keypress I send to it endlessly, for me, suggests that there's a problem.

 

I can then take the flirc out of the USB port, wait until the next day, clear + re-program the flirc and it will work again for some hours until it gets stuck again.

 

I initially used my flirc on a 10m buffered/powered USB extension cable and I thought the misc error was because of power problems. I then put the flirc directly into a mobo usb port for testing/programming and it exhibited the same behaviour.

 

I am using firmware 1.00 and GUI 0.96 (as delivered by MannMadeMediaCentres) and I have not yet tried to upgrade the firmware/GUI as I can see people have had mixed results with this via this forum.

 

At this point in time, I am awaiting the finished firmware and new programmer utility as I hope this will fix my problem.

 

Just to clarify : I am using flirc on a windows pc, not R-Pi or any exotic creature.

[Chris!]

Oh no! Let's sort this out

 

What remote are you using to control flirc?

[Ashardis]

It's a Sony!

 

I am also quite confident that I blocked the remote off, so no IR could be emitted and the keypresses kept repeating.

[jason]

Shouldn't be happening. Could you do a few things. Could you upload your configuration file to this forum, and could you also try uploading the 1.0 firmware again. It's right here:

 

Download

 

We'll get it sorted out.

[Ashardis]

Okies - I plugged the flirc back in and right away it started simulating keypresses even with the remote being off (batteries removed).

 

I managed to load up the GUI and flash the flirc with the V1.0 firmware.

 

then I cleared contents and recorded the remote signals and for now it's working fine. I'll be back with edits/additional posts later tonight (9:24am here in Denmark) once it's had a chance to repeat its bad behaviour, but fingers crossed!