test Irman

[kobesaii]

hello,

I have a irman, if you tell me how, I can test the plugin.

[Bitmonster]

Very nice!

Give me two days to clean-up the code (it was written nearly a year ago).

I will inform you in this thread, if the test version is ready.

[kobesaii]

ok, I wait for the test version

[Bitmonster]

Ok, the two days came down to less than two hours. Grab the latest beta and hopefully the new UIR/Irman plugin will show some events.

[jobec]

What is the current status of the IrMan plug-in? I installed the latest version of EventGhost (0.3.6.1090), which has the IrMan plug-in. But when I enable it, the received messages are mostly useless. The messages contain 12 bytes which seem to be rotated randomly when the same remote button is pressed again. I.e., the one "correct" code is received in average only in 16% of the button presses.

Is this behaviour known and desired, or a bug? Of course I could assign all rotations to the same event, but that seems somewhat pointless.

System: WinXP SP2, Evation IrMan on COM (working with some other softwares), tested with 5 different remotes.

Cheers,
jobec

[Bitmonster]

The plugin hasn't been tested yet. I think I found the bug you are reporting. Please open the file EventGhost/plugins/UIR/__init__.py with Notepad or similar. At line 117 you find the code:

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        self.buffer += "%X" % ord(data)

Change it to (be careful not to change indentation):

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        self.buffer += "%02X" % ord(data)

and report your findings.

[jobec]

That seems to help. Now the codes are nice and clean and same on every button press.

Thanks for the very quick answer.

Cheers,
jobec

[clinkme2]

Ok. I've also tested that new plugin. It seems, all works fine, except:
1) the latest modification confirmed by me too

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self.buffer += "%02x" % ord(data)

2) some UIRs have the variable output bytes count ( i.e. 4 or 8 ) instead of default 6. May be, make that as a config option.
3) my UIR doesn't use the "hello" protocol (IR/OK startup sequence). So, I've just commented
these lines:

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#            serialPort.write("I")
#            time.sleep(0.05)
#            serialPort.write("R")
#            if serialPort.read(2) != "OK":
#                self.PrintError("Got no OK from device.")
#                #return

Also, is it possibly to make that as a config option? (For example, "Use simple communication protocol" additional option.

Thanks for that interesting software,
Il

[Bitmonster]

I haven't understood point 1.
Do you want to have the hexadecimal letters in lower case or what is the point?

[Bitmonster]

The remaining points are implemented in the newest beta.

[clinkme2]

I haven't understood point 1.
Do you want to have the hexadecimal letters in lower case or what is the point?

Sorry for my bad english. I mean that I've made this modification by myself and after that found this topic

Tested the latest beta 1094. Works fine.