User

20.09.2006 08:38:14

Hi

I'm not sure if I missed the feature. But I can't stop recording in EyeTV with RemoteBuddy. It would be great if it were on the same key like start recording. If you're recording and want to quit EyeTV there's an info message you have to klick... That's a bit a problem. 

User

20.09.2006 12:14:02

Hello Nicolas,

that's interesting.

Can you please go into more detail on which steps you made? 
Did you start recording, then playback a recording, while the 
recording is still running .. or something else? 
Did you start recording manually? (i.e. directly via mouse or 
keyboard, not Remote Buddy)

I'm asking, because Remote Buddy is actually remembering what state 
it last put EyeTV in and send commands to start and stop recording 
depending on that. Now, you seem to experience an edge case where 
this does not work - and I'd love to learn about it :-)

Best regards, 
Felix 

User

20.09.2006 21:07:07

Hm, strange.

Today I made the Remote Buddy Update. It solve the crashing problem when changing the resolution. And now also it works with the recording. I don't no why. 
Perhaps you could still change the entry named "Aufnahme" to "Aufnahme starte / stoppen".

The most time when I'm watching TV I start the recording. So I can stop whenever I want. But often I forget to stop recording before I quit. Then a Pop-Up window appears with two options. Now I have to klick a button with a keyboard or change to Mouse Mode. That's not really a Remote Buddy problem. But perhaps anybody now's a workaround. An AppleScript that automatically selectes the "Cancel" option when I'm quitting EyeTV... Any ideas? 

User

26.09.2006 23:01:01

Hmm, I've been thinking about it for a few days now and think I've 
found a solution. I hope to include it in the next release.

Cheers, 
Felix 

User

27.09.2006 01:58:18

Sounds great. In the last days I run into some problems with VLC. It crashed when I started a movie. Then Remote Buddy is waiting till the starting is finished (what never happens). So I have to use the keyboard the quit VLC imediatly. At the moment, I'm cheking out if it's only a problem of my System or if it's conencted to Remote Buddy.

In the last few days I also thougt about the integration of the mobile phone screen to show what's happening. I've only a projector connected to my Mac Mini. Sometimes I want only to listen to music without starting the projector. So it would be great to have a small screen showing what's happening in Front Row or Remote Buddy.

At the moment I'm reading into some Java/Bluetooth stuff to build a tool that can send strings to the mobile phone and display it. It's only an idea. If it gets more conrete I will inform you. 

User

27.09.2006 13:21:02

I checked the VLC problem and it seems to be a Core 2 Duo Problem with Rosetta and should be solved in VLC 0.8.6.

An other thing that happend to me this morning: I opened DVD Player and there was a pop-up window that asked to continue the DVD at the last position or to start from the beginning. I had to change to the mouse action. I think this is more or less the same problem like in EyeTV. Perhaps you have a good idea :-) 

User

29.09.2006 21:48:02

Hello Nicolas,

thanks for letting me know. But isn't VLC Universal by now?

If you want to choose the default button in that dialog, you can 
press the Play button to dismiss this dialog.

I have a number of ideas for dialogs already, but none of them has 
made it into code yet ;-)

Best regards, 
Felix 

User

30.09.2006 00:42:51

I also thougt that VLC is Universal. But I found this ticket: 
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/668

In my logs Rosetta also appears...

Edit: I found this entry: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=16725

Edit2: Ok, I got it. Their are two Versions of VLC. One PowerPC and one Intel Versions. It's not Universal. So I messed up again (sorry guys). I downloaded the PowerPC Version for an Intel machine. Now I hope the Intel Version solves the problems.

Last edited: 30.09.2006 00:50:14 

User

04.10.2006 00:46:02

Huh .. that's spooky :-)

I'm sure, though, they'll find and fix that bug.

Best regards, 
Felix 

User

06.02.2007 12:21:01

EyeTv natively allows one to select the cancel button in he dialog using left/right and play. It is a great feature which ouwld be fantastic to see in Remote Buddy (see my othere post) BUT it may be VERY hard OR impossible to achieve (or is it just a tab and return key mapping required with dialogs in foreground??)..

Did you ever get an applescript or can anyone think of an elegant solution ?\

cheers 
chris

User

06.02.2007 14:32:01

Hello Chris,

as mentioned earlier, please update to the latest version of Remote 
Buddy. That particular problem is already solved for a while.

Best regards, 
Felix 

User

06.02.2007 21:06:01

I am replying to a similar message to get some help, as 
I have been trying to participate in the RB forum, but have not been 
able to use the 
new topic address: 
[removed]

All my attempts to post are bounced back with:

From: [removed] 
Subject: Delivery error 
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:23:02 +0100 
Your email sent to 
[removed] 
could not be delivered: 
Mails with attachments or HTML-emails are not accepted. 
This is an automaticaly generated email: replies to it can't be answered.

I do not believe my eudora email is sending any attachments or HTML

I see much EyeTV discussion on this thread!

I was trying to use the Keyspan Remote for Front Row 
to run EyeTV and Front Row (ONLY these 2 apps!) on a mac cube- 
but I think my "simple enough for the babysitter" full screen 
approach is incompatible with the RemoteBuddy menu navigation methodology.

Has anyone been able to get RemoteBuddy on an old mac 
to switch back and forth between EyeTV and Front Row 
the way the Apple Remote does on a new mac?

I appreciate all the great features that RB allows you to do, 
but I am just looking for basic Apple Remote functionality on an old mac! 
Keyspan Remote for Front Row can run Front Row well on an older mac, 
but it doesn't run EyeTV in the way an Apple Remote would on a new mac. 

User

06.02.2007 23:29:01

Hello Mark,

thanks for your posting.

Regarding the email problem: 
Generally, please don't post any dynamically created email addresses 
from this forum to the forum as they allow anybody to post to this 
thread with your nickname. I've thus removed it from the posting on 
the web.

The website does only send you the error message for a multipart mail 
(specified in the Content-Type field of the mail header - you may 
want to have a look at the raw email in your outbox). This can be 
attached digital signatures, styled text, HTML emails or attachments.

As a backup, you can also always post to the forum directly over the 
web. The email <-> forum gateway is merely a bonus.

Anyhow, this email of yours, as a text-only mail, got through just fine :-)

Regarding your setup / configuration question: 
I'd suggest to create a custom menu with just Front Row and EyeTV in 
it, if that's all you want to be able to access. You'll probably be 
able to strip down the menu even further in a future release, but no 
promises, yet (more configuration options give more possibilities, 
but also make it harder to both find and make use of them in an 
intuitive way).

Hope that helps.

Best regards, 
Felix

Last edited: 07.02.2007 00:42:47