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13.10.2007 08:31:55

More Sugestions for RB

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Hi again

This has been an extended weekend (hollidays) and while making heavy use of RB I came up with some more sugestions:

1) Can you make an option to choose the position of messages on the screen? Or at least choose to put them on the top instead of on the botton. I watch many movies with subtitles, and it is annoying to miss some subtitiles while RB says "disconnecting PS3 remote for inactivity" on the screen in the middle of the movie, right on top of the movie subtitles.

2) I listen a lot to mp3. I do not keep my music managed by iTunes, they are just files in a tree organized by me. So, while FrontRow is fine to watch movies, I cannot use it for music, it will only play what iTunes can see. So I'm using RB's menu FILES to navigate to the right dir, and press enter on a music. Then I choose the player (normally Mplayer OSX). It plays OK.

The problem is, I have to choose one by one. It would be nice to have a way to enqueue a hole dir as a playlist to the selected program. I see that today, hitting 'right' or 'play' on the remote control, while on the files menu, both enter the selected directory. Maybe you could use 'right' to enter it, but if you press play (or hold play), it will offer you to recursively mount a playlist and call a program (that could work for mp3 or for video-clips or any known media).

3) When you enter the FILES menu, the first option is to go back to the last directory you were. This is great, I use it a lot. But I think it's behaviour could be changed a little:

Today it behaves like this:
- you navigate to 5 levels down your home dir
- you launch something and leave menu
- you fire menu again
- on level 1, you see the option to go back to last dir
- you choose it and jump to that dir deep 5 levels
- now you want to go back one dir, to level 4
- you press 'back/left', but you go back to level 1, not 4

is this intended behaviour? Could it remember the complete path, so you can jump 5 levels down and then go gack one by one, instead of jumping all the way back too?

If my programming skills are still good, I think 1 and 3 must be easy, while 2 may require a little more effort.

Thank you again,
Andre

These entries from the FAQ may be relevant to this topic:

Behaviours

The installed application XY, for which a behaviour exists, does not turn up in Remote Buddy's menu. What should I do? (FAQ015E0160)
There are several possible error sources:
- The application has been installed after Remote Buddy has already been launched
  For efficiency reasons, Remote Buddy only searches for supported applications when its started. If you have installed an application after launching Remote Buddy, please quit Remote Buddy and launch it anew.
- Oudated program versions
  The installed version of the program in question could be outdated and identify itself with a different Bundle Identifier than the version supported by Remote Buddy. This problem often occurs with Mplayer OS X. The most recent version of that application is not to be found on Sourceforge but on directly on the pages of Mplayer HQ.
- Custom menus
  If you use a custom menu in Remote Buddy and you don't make use of Remote Buddy's smart folders, the menu structure is static. You have to manually add the behaviour into a place of your choice in the menu.
- The behaviour is deactivated.
  Make sure, the checkbox in front of the Behaviour's name in the Mappings pane of the preferences is active.
- The Launch Services database is outdated.
  Remote Buddy uses Launch Services to check for the availability of an application on your Mac. If the Launch Services database of OS X is incomplete or outdated, so is Remote Buddy's dynamically created menu. The solution, though is easy. Download LSRefresh, launch it, select the application(s) that don't turn up in Remote Buddy's menu, wait until the update is finished and then restart Remote Buddy.

General

How do I navigate the Remote Buddy menu? (FAQ015E0170)
To navigate the menu, you can use the following button presses:
"Left" - up by one level in the menu
"Right" and "Play" - choose the current entry
"Left hold" - go to the main menu
"Plus" and "Minus" - scroll through the entries
"Menu hold" - jump to the first entry of the current menu
"Menu" - fade in/out the onscreen menu

Hardware - Apple® Remote

After uninstalling/quitting Remote Buddy, my Mac® no longer reacts to the Apple® Remote. (FAQ015E0241)
To enable you to use all capabilities of the IR Receiver of your Mac®, Remote Buddy is using its own driver. In contrast, all other applications with integrated Apple® Remote support usually use the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

As long as you're running Remote Buddy, Remote Buddy and its driver are responsible for turning the received button presses into actions. As soon as you quit Remote Buddy, this task is again handled by the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

If other applications don't use the interface to the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem correctly, this can lead to the effect that nothing happens when you press a button on your Apple® Remote. For as long as you're running Remote Buddy, issues like this are covered by Remote Buddy and it's driver and are therefore not visible to you. However, as soon as you quit Remote Buddy, the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem is back in control and any issues caused in it by other applications become visible.

Therefore Remote Buddy is neither the cause of the issue nor is it responsible for it. Instead, the cause of the issue exists independently of Remote Buddy. It's located elsewhere and can also only be solved there.

Although our products can't cause any such issues, we're regularly contacted about such issues and asked for help. In order to make locating and fixing the cause of such issues as easy and efficient as possible, we've developed a free diagnostics tool: Remote Control Diagnostics. It can locate issues with a single click and will provide you with information about the issue as well as with instructions on how you can fix it.

Hardware - Sony® BD Remote Control

I'm having problems with the Sony® PS3 BD Remote under OS X® 10.8/10.9. (FAQ015E0246)
There's a bug in the Bluetooth®-stack of OS X® 10.8/10.9 in the context of pairing a Sony® PS3 BD Remote. OS X® 10.8/10.9 will ask you to enter a PIN code when you try to connect your remote control. This problem is known by Apple®.

If you pair your Sony® PS3 BD Remote with your Mac® for the first time
1. Use Remote Buddy's Setup Wizard to pair your remote control
2. Restart your Mac® directly after the pairing was successful, while the remote is still connected.
3. The remote should now work without problems.
If you've already paired the Sony® PS3 BD Remote with your Mac®
1. 10.9 only: Try entering 0000 as PIN and reboot. If you're lucky, that was all you needed to do. If this does not solve your issue, please continue with the steps that follow.
2. First, we'll need to remove the Link Key of your Mac® from the memory of your remote control. Since this remote control can only store one Link Key, it's as easy as pairing the remote control with another Mac®. To do so, open System Preferences > Bluetooth on another Mac® and pair your remote with it.
3. All steps that follow should be performed on the Mac® that you want to use your remote control with.
4. Remove - if it exists - the entry of your remote control at Remote Buddy > Preferences > Hardware ® Bluetooth Receiver. The entry usually is titled "BD Remote".
5. If existant, remove the device "BD Remote" from System Preferences > Bluetooth.
6. Delete the Bluetooth preferences files by entering the following in Terminal.app and hitting return (Warning: this deletes all information about all paired Bluetooth® devices):
```
sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist
sudo rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist
sudo rm ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.Bluetooth.*.plist
```
  Please enter your admin password when requested. Then restart your Mac®.
7. Use Remote Buddy's Setup Wizard to pair your remote control
8. Restart your Mac® directly after the pairing was successful, while the remote is still connected.
9. The remote should now work without problems.

User

16.10.2007 01:06:01

Re: More Sugestions for RB

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Hi Andre,

thanks for sharing your ideas.

1) Added to the ToDo. You can tell Remote Buddy to not display message
bezels for Bluetooth remotes, btw in Prefs > Hardware > Bluetooth
Receiver.

2) I'll be thinking about your suggestion. VLC, btw, should enqueue
the tracks instead of resetting its "playlist".

3) Some users will expect it to go straight back to the "overview
view", some other users (including you) would prefer it going up a
filesystem level. It's difficult to find "the right solution" in such
cases as inevitably, the respectively other group of users will
complain about the implementation. If you are frequently accessing the
same directory, the best solution is probably to make it part of a
customized menu profile.

Best regards,
Felix

User

16.10.2007 19:35:20

Re: More Sugestions for RB

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Hi Andre,

thanks for sharing your ideas.

1) Added to the ToDo. You can tell Remote Buddy to not display message
bezels for Bluetooth remotes, btw in Prefs > Hardware > Bluetooth
Receiver.

That's a work around, I'll do it for now.

2) I'll be thinking about your suggestion. VLC, btw, should enqueue
the tracks instead of resetting its "playlist".

Thanks :-)

How about a press-and-hold to go all the way to the top menu, and just a press to go up une filesystem level?

Sometimes I feel like the remotebuddy menu itself being customisable. That makes perfect sense when you have 54 buttons on your remote (ps3), I could do both things (discussed above) with different buttons. But I know there must be much more important things in your ToDo now, so don't worry about that.

Andre

User

19.10.2007 22:55:01

Re: Re: More Sugestions for RB

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Hi Andre,

How about a press-and-hold to go all the way to the top menu, and
just a press to go up une filesystem level?

The problem with this is that's already used by a different function -
namely sending you to the root level of the complete menu. You can
find an overview over all shortcuts in the FAQ.

Sometimes I feel like the remotebuddy menu itself being
customisable. That makes perfect sense when you have 54 buttons on
your remote (ps3), I could do both things (discussed above) with
different buttons. But I know there must be much more important
things in your ToDo now, so don't worry about that.

I'm sure that - as more "calm" times come - there'll be more time
again for implementing special requests. Right now, all the time is
consumed by the exciting things that happen partly publicly (Leopard,
iPhone/iPod Touch), partly behind the scenes..

Best regards,
Felix

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