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26.03.2009 09:39:06

Various suggestions

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I have been using Remote Buddy for a few days with Plex and XMBC with my Sony DB Bluetooth Remote. I really like it and bought it, but I have a few suggestions which will make it even better ;)

1) Under each application in the menu, there should be a way to easily launch (and focus) the application if it's not allready started. Right now it only possible to focus the application if it's allready started.

2) Possible to forcefully shutdown running apps which are not responding. For example Plex sometimes freeze for me and I have to grab my keyboard and mouse to shut it down.

3) Possible to launch (or show if running) app with a remote keypress (mappable action) instead of browsing thru Remote Buddy's menus.

That's all... hope this will be available in a future version :)

/Klaus

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

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 - Wii™ Remote

How can I activate the Bluetooth® receiver automatically on startup? (FAQ015E0163)
In order to automatically activate the Bluetooth® Receiver on startup, enter the settings, choose "Hardware", then click on "Bluetooth® Receiver". Finally activate the checkbox "Search for supported remotes on startup". Remote Buddy will then automatically look for remote control paired through the "Setup Wizard" on next startup.

User

26.03.2009 10:01:16

Re: Various suggestions

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Thanks for your comments.

Regarding 1):
If you don't want to descend into a Behaviour's context menu to choose
"Activate Behaviour", you can select the respective option in the
Extended Options at Prefs > Menu > Menu size & effects. The activation
of a Behaviour will also start the app it controls if it's not already
running. If you want to explicitly bring an already running app to
front (and make it the focused application), you can choose "Bring to
Front" from the respective Behaviour's Context Menu.

Regarding 2):
Remote Buddy already can do that. You can either use

Menu Root Level > System > Application Manager > .. > Force quit

Behaviour Context Menu > Force quit

Regarding 3)
This functionality is already there. You can map the activation of a
Behaviour (and thus trigger the launch of the app controlled by that
Behaviour, if it's not already running) by selecting the respective
action found under "Behaviours > Active .. Behaviour" from the popup
in the respective mapping table at Prefs > Mapping.

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

User

26.03.2009 10:26:02

Re: Various suggestions

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Wow! Quick response - nice :)

I will try your suggestions tonight.

/Klaus

User

18.05.2013 12:36:39

Re: Various suggestions

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Hi !

Sorry that i use this old thread but i don't find anything else which is related to my problem:

For me the function force quit ("sofort beenden") of XBMC doesn't work via RB. Sometimes XBMC freezes and then i have to pull out the keyboard … low batteries … and so on ;-)

Maybe a problem or wrong configuration ? Any hints for me ?

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