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hold events for apple remote?
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unvaluablespace
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hold events for apple remote?
Hi, I have a hackintosh setup and am trying to get my apple remote to work with xbmc via eventghost. So far I've gotten some basic navigation commands for xbmc, but when I try holding down any buttons on the remote, eventghost seems to repeatedly see the input over and over again. Is there any way to make eventghost see that I am actually holding down a button? because when I try the "jump if long press" event, nothing happens because it looks as though the remote is just sending the signal repeatedly. Any help on this would be much appreciated, as I would like to be able to launch xbmc by a hold event, and put my computer to sleep via another hold event as well, just as it works on OSX.
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unvaluablespace
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Re: hold events for apple remote?
Nvm. Figured it out, sorta. Basically the apple remote sends two signals for each button press, the first initial hid, then a constant second signal as you hold down the button. This happens quickly, so you can't just give a command to both inputs and expect the second as a hold event on its own because of the repeated nature of the signal. So what I did was make a command for the first signal, then a wait for time event, followed by a new command for the new hid signal. This in turn simulates a hold button effect for the apple remote. But now my new issue is that because I tell the first command for wait for a certain amount of time, if I were to repeatedly press the button, I have to wait for the input to take effect again. For example, attempting to repeatedly navigate using the down button, results in a 1 second delay because of the second input. Any thoughts?
Re: hold events for apple remote?
Hi, I'm having the exact same issue. But I haven't quite figured out the steps you describe to get it to sort of work.
Can you post a pic of how you have it configured? If you try to add two events in the same macro they automatically get put above any trigger so I'm not quite sure how to get it to check for the first event, wait, then the second, in order to trigger the action I'm looking for on a long press.
Thanks!
Can you post a pic of how you have it configured? If you try to add two events in the same macro they automatically get put above any trigger so I'm not quite sure how to get it to check for the first event, wait, then the second, in order to trigger the action I'm looking for on a long press.
Thanks!