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08.10.2008 12:13:23

Send events to Plex when Plex does not have focus

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I'm in the process of setting up Remote Buddy and Plex with my new Mac Pro.

I am using 2 displays: 1 cinema display as the primary display and a plasma as a secondary display.

My aim is to be able to use Plex as a background task to run for the home theatre, whilst being able to do tasks on my desktop.

Everything is working quite nicely except for 1 thing: When Plex doesn't have focus, for example if I am viewing a web page on the primary display, all of the events from the Sony BD remote are sent to the application with the focus.

I was looking at the custom actions and I think it looks possible to be able to send an event directly to an application (by class or some other way).

Any help with an example how to send an event/keystroke directly to Plex would be greatly appreciated!

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

Configuration

How do I add a new action to a Behaviour - f.ex. an emulated key press or AppleScript? (FAQ015E0153)
1) Open the Remote Buddy Preferences via the pulldown-menu and choose "Mapping".
2) Choose the mapping you want to modify.
3) Select "Custom actions" for the button you want to map to an action of your own.
4) Create the action you need using the appearing editor.

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

How can I increase battery life? (FAQ015E0232)
To increase battery life for the Sony® BD Remote, you should turn on the power saving options Remote Buddy offers. You can find them at Remote Buddy Preferences > Hardware > Bluetooth Receiver.
These settings are recommended:
General
Search for paired remotes on startup: On.
Stop searching for paired remotes after max .. minutes: Off.
Display pairing instructions and status messages: Off. If you experience problems, you should turn this option back on to aid you in debugging the problem.

Energy saving
Automatically disconnect remotes after inactivity of more than .. minute(s): On, value of 1 minute.
Disconnect remotes when computer goes to sleep: On. The potential power saving with this option is huge. But as the warning says, this will not work with all computers: if you can't wake up your computer with your remote after turning this option on, please turn it off again.

User

10.10.2008 07:04:07

Re: Send events to Plex when Plex does not have focus

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I have the same set up as you do. Dual screens, a PS3 remote, and I work on one screen, watch on the other.

You would have to make each action yourself and then

• uncheck "Activate application and bring it to front"
• check "send event directly to this application"

What I did is create a new behavior and input all the actions there. If you want I can share that with you, it'll probably save you quite some time ;)

Last edited: 10.10.2008 07:14:48

User

10.10.2008 09:50:20

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Thanks for the tip! If you could send me what you have, it'll definitely help save me some time. I haven't had a look at it yet but I will definitely try and set it up this weekend.

Could you send it to:

greybruxelles-rego (at) yahoo (dot) com

Thanks!

Last edited: 10.10.2008 09:56:05

User

10.10.2008 10:35:38

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I thought it'd help others so I uploaded the file online, here's the link:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/qmenmkynjmy/Plex.rbscriptedbehaviour.zip

Let me know how that goes :)

BTW, make sure you uncheck the default Plex behavior in order to use the custom one. Here are Felix's instructions:

"Please note that, when you add your own Behaviour for an app that's
already supported by a Behaviour that ships with Remote Buddy itself,
which of the Behaviours will be picked to control the app is undefined.

You'll definately want to make sure that:

- you uncheck the checkbox in front of Remote Buddy's *own* Behaviour
in Remote Buddy > Prefs > Behaviour (so it's no longer used by Remote
Buddy).

- you do have only one copy of your Behaviour lying around in ~/
Library/Application Support/Remote Buddy/Behaviours"

User

13.10.2008 14:00:01

Re: Send events to Plex when Plex does not have focus

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Thanks Miguel, it works great! I can now send events to Plex directly.

I also had to disable the default behaviour (Remote buddy was switching to it) and also remove alot of global mappings. Since the remote will only be used for Plex, it's no problem.

Thanks again for your help.

User

15.10.2008 06:32:05

Re: Send events to Plex when Plex does not have focus

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Cool, I'm glad to hear. Hey, what do you mean about having to remove the global mappings?

User

15.10.2008 18:54:49

Re: Send events to Plex when Plex does not have focus

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It might have been something that I put in the past, or it could be some kind of default in Remote Buddy.

Under the mappings preferences, for the remote, there was mappings for the arrow keys. I had to unmap those values as it was overriding the behaviour.

User

30.10.2008 15:05:50

Re: Send events to Plex when Plex does not have focus

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I have this same exact setup and I too installed the behavior as per the instructions. I unchecked the included Plex behavior as well as unchecked all other behaviors and global mappings. There is only 1 copy of your behavior (in fact it is the only behavior) in the ~/appplication/ ... behaviors folder.

It still doesn't work. It either does nothing at all when Plex is out of Focus or it will keep sending a particular key (ex. down or up arrows) constantly making the menus scroll repeatedly until I place Plex back in focus.

Any ideas what I may be doing wrong here?

User

30.10.2008 19:40:19

Re: Send events to Plex when Plex does not have focus

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Make sure that you "Activate" the behavior. This can be done by pressing the "Playstation" button on the PS3 remote and selecting the "Plex" behavior. If the custom behavior doesn't appear on the Menu, you'll have to configure it on Preferences -> Menu

Once activated, to keep it active go to Preferences -> General -> Advanced and check the following:

"Manually activated Behaviors stay active until they are explicitly deactivated"

Let me know if that works ;)

Last edited: 30.10.2008 19:41:28

User

30.10.2008 21:13:06

Re: Re: Send events to Plex when Plex does not have focus

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Miguel:

That was the trick! For some reason it wasn't the default behavior on
startup even though I had it checked as such... oh well. Fixed now
though.

Thanks!

On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Miguel wrote:

Make sure that you "Activate" the behavior. This can be done by
pressing the "Playstation" button on the PS3 remote. If the custom
behavior doesn't appear on the Menu, you'll have to configure it on
Preferences -> Menu

Once activated, to keep it active go to Preferences -> General ->
Advanced and check the following:

"Manually activated Behaviors stay active until they are explicitly
deactivated"

Let me know if that works ;)

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