Jump to content
Flirc Forums

No Manual? No real explanation for the Color Wheel?


RonM

Recommended Posts

I am a techie.  I owed a computer store for over a dozen years when the PC era began and I'm a member of Mensa and I have a doctorate so I'm not dense or uneducated. I got the Skip 1 up and running without difficulty on Windows 10 with a Sound Bar, TV, and Apple TV without difficulty. I haven't tried adding other devices. My Sound Bar isn't in the code base (surprising since the Sony HT-A7000 is pretty common), but I am limping along by using a few codes that cross over from another Sony sound bar for now. 

What surprises me, though, is the absence of any documentation on the use of the color wheel. I can't find anything documenting how it is supposed to be used, its purpose or why it even exists. Given it presumably is a unique feature of this product, why isn't this feature explained somewhere prominently? Can someone explain its supposed usefulness? Thanks.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

My interpretation is that these feature unlocks extra 4 buttons to use for any task. Currently I'm using the color wheel to change my onkyo receiver's inputs: blueray, game, set-top box.

How to do that: follow guide in the app. On right side, there's help video. It involves dragging circles into color wheel.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

39 minutes ago, RonM said:

So…. Basically this ensures compatibility with those older remotes that require the color keys but, from a practical standpoint, it just makes a two-keypress command.  Right?

Yes, you're right. My old plasma tv remote have those colored buttons, but not sure what are they for.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

They are for old remotes that have the four colors but also to house any extra keys and or macros. You are right, the documentation should be better, I'll get that updated.

Here is a quick video. To assign buttons to that mode, enter the color mode by hitting the four colors. Do your assignment, and hit that button again to exit color mode.

Sync, and just like the app, to send the keys stored in the colors, press the color dot on the remote, and then the corresponding d-pad you assigned those functions too.

Hitting a button in color mode with no assignment will light the ring red showing us an 'error'. Because no key is assigned to that yet. Let me know if that makes sense.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 11 months later...
On 1/16/2023 at 3:19 PM, RonM said:

I am a techie.  I owed a computer store for over a dozen years when the PC era began and I'm a member of Mensa and I have a doctorate so I'm not dense or uneducated. I got the Skip 1 up and running without difficulty on Windows 10 with a Sound Bar, TV, and Apple TV without difficulty. I haven't tried adding other devices. My Sound Bar isn't in the code base (surprising since the Sony HT-A7000 is pretty common), but I am limping along by using a few codes that cross over from another Sony sound bar for now. 

What surprises me, though, is the absence of any documentation on the use of the color wheel. I can't find anything documenting how it is supposed to be used, its purpose or why it even exists. Given it presumably is a unique feature of this product, why isn't this feature explained somewhere prominently? Can someone explain its supposed usefulness? Thanks.

How on earth did you get this HT-A7000 working!? Thanks for any tips.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 1/16/2023 at 3:19 PM, RonM said:

I am a techie.  I owed a computer store for over a dozen years when the PC era began and I'm a member of Mensa and I have a doctorate so I'm not dense or uneducated. I got the Skip 1 up and running without difficulty on Windows 10 with a Sound Bar, TV, and Apple TV without difficulty. I haven't tried adding other devices. My Sound Bar isn't in the code base (surprising since the Sony HT-A7000 is pretty common), but I am limping along by using a few codes that cross over from another Sony sound bar for now. 

What surprises me, though, is the absence of any documentation on the use of the color wheel. I can't find anything documenting how it is supposed to be used, its purpose or why it even exists. Given it presumably is a unique feature of this product, why isn't this feature explained somewhere prominently? Can someone explain its supposed usefulness? Thanks.

Any chance you can detail how you got the HT-A7000 working. I went brute force and nothing worked. Thanks!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...