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27.04.2009 17:18:34

MythTv Mutliple key sends

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I am trying out Remote Buddy to better integrate using my Mac Mini as a media center. It works great except for one application. MythTV. In that application when I am in the TV guide display and press the up button on my mac IR remote, it acts like I pressed it a bunch of times. It happens on the down button too, but not as much and never on the left or right buttons. It's also limited to the IR, because when I use the keyboard up/down I have no problem.

Any ideas? It's the only thing holding me back from using the remote, and MythTV is my main app.

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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.

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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.

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30.04.2009 17:53:17

Re: MythTv Mutliple key sends

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Thanks for asking.

Right now, the Up/Down actions for MythTV send a

- "key pressed"-event when you press the remote's button
- "key repeat"-event for every 0.25 seconds the remote's button stays
pressed
- "key released"-event when you release the remote's button

Which version of MythTVBackend are you using?

The MythTVBackend Behaviour has been a user contribution and I don't
have any MythTV installation I could try this out with ATM.

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

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03.05.2009 20:59:43

Re: MythTv Mutliple key sends

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I am using backend version 20.2. The problem I have is that they "repeat" does not seem to match your description. I click it once and release right away. Some times it goes up only a line or two and other times many lines for the same length of click. I have noticed the problem is much worse on the up than the down. Also it never happens on the right or left. Why would "up" exhibit the symptoms more than down and both up/down more than left or right?

User

19.05.2009 16:53:17

Re: Re: MythTv Mutliple key sends

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Well, this is how it is defined and how events are sent. How an
application decides to handle these events is not within Remote
Buddy's control. But Remote Buddy offers a number of options on how
keyboard events should be issued, so you can select the way that can
be best handled by the target application.

Please try the following:

1) Go to Prefs > Mapping > MythTVFrontEnd, then repeat the following
steps for both the up and down buttons

2) Select "Custom actions.." for the respective button

3) Create an action that sends the up and down cursor keys to the
application and play with
a) the different methods keyboard events can be emulated in reaction
to button presses (under "Method")
b) the minimum interval between events (the field below the "Method"
popup)

You can test how the action behaves with the three test buttons on the
bottom.

Please let me know your results. If I know what is best handled by
MythTVFrontEnd, I can adapt the MythTVFrontEnd Behaviour accordingly.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

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