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09.12.2014 08:35:19

Long Press with Harmony Smart Control (Hub)

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Hi,

as written in the Tutorial I should give the same function to the long press as well as to the short press. What is the reason behind this? I would like to use more buttons.

Thanks.

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

Hardware - Harmony® Smart Control

If I haven't used the Harmony Smart Remote for a few minutes, Remote Buddy does not react to the first button press. (FAQ015E0263)
Please verify that no power saving options are enabled at "Remote Buddy > Preferences > Hardware > Bluetooth Receiver".

Which Harmony commands need to be assigned to the respective buttons on the Smart Control so that I can use all buttons with Remote Buddy? (FAQ015E0265)

When the Harmony Hub connects to my Mac, I'm asked for a PIN. (FAQ015E0262)
Please enter 0000.
Nothing happens when I press a button on the Smart Control. (FAQ015E0261)
This can be due to a number of many, very different reasons:
1. Wrong/No Activity: the Smart Control will only send your button presses to Remote Buddy if you've selected the "Remote Buddy" activity. Activities on the Harmony Smart Remote are chosen by pressing one of the buttons from the "Music, TV, Movie" row at the top of the remote. Please note: short and long presses of these buttons can select different activities.
2. Bluetooth turned off: please make sure that Bluetooth on your Mac is turned on.
3. Harmony Hub not paired: the Harmony Hub sometimes looses the Bluetooth pairing when making changes to its configuration. To initially establish - or re-establish - a Bluetooth pairing between the Harmony Hub and your Mac, follow this guide:
  
  Pairing instructionsShow
4. Soft keyboard pairing: make sure you only have paired your Harmony Hub to your Mac as a "Sony Playstation 3". If you also pair your Harmony Hub as a soft keyboard, Remote Buddy will no longer be able to capture input events coming from it. Why is this? In "Sony Playstation 3" mode, the Harmony Hub identifies as "Consumer Control" device to your Mac. For this class of devices, any app is allowed to exclusively capture all input. For keyboards, however, OS X only allows access to apps running with root/administrator priviledges, locking out Remote Buddy. To properly remove the pairing as a keyboard, first use the Harmony in that mode, then remove "Harmony Keyboard" from System Preferences > Bluetooth - and finally remove the respective device from your Harmony's configuration. Since OS X caches the identity of Bluetooth devices, it may take some time, several attempts and maybe even a system restart before OS X sees your Harmony Hub as a "Consumer Control" device again and again allows Remote Buddy access to it.
5. Empty batteries: if you can't control any devices with your Harmony Smart Remote at all, while using the "Harmony Control" app on your iOS device still works, chances are the battery of your remote needs to be replaced. Logitech provides instructions for this.
How do I set up the Harmony Smart Control and connect it to Remote Buddy on my Mac? (FAQ015E0264)
Please see the detailed HowTo on this topic in our blog.

User

10.12.2014 11:06:02

Re: Long Press with Harmony Smart Control (Hub)

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This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information.

Here's what Remote Buddy will receive from the Harmony Hub for a long and short button press, respectively:

1) with long and short press pointing to the same commands in the Harmony Hub's configuration:
a) short press: [press] [release]
b) 2 seconds long press: [press] .. 2s pass .. [release]

2) with long and short press pointing to different commands in the Harmony Hub's configuration:
a) short press: [press] [release]
b) 2 seconds long press: [press] .. 0s pass .. [release] .. 2s pass ..

So, by having short and long presses point to different Harmony commands, the Harmony won't share the duration of a button press with Remote Buddy. All presses for such buttons will then be seen as having a duration of zero seconds by Remote Buddy.

Some actions - like rewind, which start rewinding when you press the button, and stop rewinding when you release the button - will only work and be usable, if Remote Buddy has access to the duration of a button press.

So, for buttons like the rewind button, it is highly desirable to configure the Harmony to use the same command for both short and long button presses.

You can, of course, in Remote Buddy, assign different actions for the short and long states of a button.

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