EventGhost

I know I brought this up before, about how to do a repeat command. I followed the instructions and got it working, but I was not happy with the speed in which I could send and IR command through EG. This became very frustrating with my Apple TV 3. To scroll trough my long music and movie list became painful. So I found a better way to do it, "besides to throw away my apple TV. LOL". What I did was to set up a terRemote button to start a loop in EG on button down, and to stop the loop in EG with button up commands. Works very well. I also like it that as soon as I release the button the IR command stop immediately.

It's exactly what I've suggested here (but I've used the terRemote terminology press, release and timer instead of down, up and loop):

r0lZ wrote:

mpg732 wrote:I do have a question, can we do a repeat on button press/hold?

Use a timer in the Action on press, and cancel the timer with the Action on release. Define what the button should do and the time interval (between shoots) in the timer itself. (The first Time value is the total duration of the timer, but if you cancel it with the action on release, it should be infinite, or at least very long. I use 1000000 ms.)

Wait I'm confused, were you saying to the repeat on terRemote side, or do the loop on EG? Not clear by your post. LOL

Oh, yes, I was wrong. Your method uses EG, and mine terRemote. Sorry, I haven't paid attention.
I don't think "EG" all the time, because I use terRemote to control my TV and my multimedia HDD, not my PC.

I'm not using EG to control a PC either. I am talking solely about having EG send out IR commands. How are you sending IR commands?

I don't send IR commands. Only HTTP Get requests. It's easier.

While I was redoing some of the tutorials today, I created one about this issue. Have a look here, it is basically exactly what r0lZ suggested.
http://www.terremote.com/tutorials/repe ... utton_hold

I am thinking about adding an option for action repetition, just to make the setup faster and a little more intuitive. This works fine for now, though.

Very nice with all the changes. Love the changes.

The only thing I noticed that may be an glitch, is when I am in "edit mode" and swipe open the left navigation window, some of my pages are not listed. When I leave "edit mode" and swipe the same navigation menu open, then all my pages are there. Not sure if I am just over looking some thing.

Mike

terRemote wrote:While I was redoing some of the tutorials today, I created one about this issue. Have a look here, it is basically exactly what r0lZ suggested.
http://www.terremote.com/tutorials/repe ... utton_hold

I am thinking about adding an option for action repetition, just to make the setup faster and a little more intuitive. This works fine for now, though.

Thanks, That's how I originally got it set up. Spent long time playing around with the settings, but as stated above there is just to much latency between sending out the commands and getting EG to respond. Plus I also had problems with, for example, if I hold down a nave button for 10 sec, after I release the button the command would still be sent for a time period after release. Doing it my way, as soon as I release the button, the IR command stops. I don't think there is any thing you could change in terRemote to solve this. I have seen this issue in other things, like iRule and Redeye. I think its just the issue of a slight, delay between communication to EG. This was only an issue for my Apple TV, with over two hundred movie list to scroll through, you can imagine why speed counts. Because I don't have an alternative way to control my Apple TV, I found this was as close as I could get to the manufacture remote.

@mpg732:
Sounds like the problem is with your IR device. I don't have an Apple TV but isn't there are way to control it via HTTP rather than using IR? Would be interesting to investigate this. Maybe the customizable TCP protocols will do it.
About your issues with Layouts not being lsited in edit mode: Can you specify what characterizes these layouts? Is it cut off at the end? I was not able to reproduce the problem, so far.

As you all may have noticed: I have released two bugfix versions since the last major update two days ago. This was only possible due to some very fast bug reports, both using the Android functionality and the automatical anonymous bug reports that (luckily) some people have activated in the terRemote options. Thanks to these people, three bugs have been eliminated very quickly!

There is still one report that said Macro actions could not be added or edited, anymore. I was not able to see this. Everything works fine on my devices. Maybe people can check and contact me if they have this problem.

Anyway, thanks for all the support and feedback. The app is getting better and better, the EG plugin is almost done, as well.

Best
Chris

terRemote wrote:@mpg732:
Sounds like the problem is with your IR device. I don't have an Apple TV but isn't there are way to control it via HTTP rather than using IR? Would be interesting to investigate this. Maybe the customizable TCP protocols will do it.
About your issues with Layouts not being lsited in edit mode: Can you specify what characterizes these layouts? Is it cut off at the end? I was not able to reproduce the problem, so far.

As you all may have noticed: I have released two bugfix versions since the last major update two days ago. This was only possible due to some very fast bug reports, both using the Android functionality and the automatical anonymous bug reports that (luckily) some people have activated in the terRemote options. Thanks to these people, three bugs have been eliminated very quickly!

There is still one report that said Macro actions could not be added or edited, anymore. I was not able to see this. Everything works fine on my devices. Maybe people can check and contact me if they have this problem.

Anyway, thanks for all the support and feedback. The app is getting better and better, the EG plugin is almost done, as well.

Best
Chris

What do you mean by "characterizes these layout"? LOL I have 7 panels total. Only 5 will show up on the left slide out when in edit mode. As for Apple TV, unless you have an iPad/ iPhone / iPod touch, you can only control via IR. Apple wont release and no one has figured how to crack it yet. I see what you are saying about the IR device. I am using EG with an USBIRT and yes it can be part of the problem, but using the same hard ware, my way is 5x faster then your way. LOL

So This is what I found on my issue of not seeing all my panels when in edit mode. It seems that the left slide out menu will only display 4 panels. So to try some thing, I deleted an extra panel, this panel was being displayed in the left menu during edit mode. I deleted it, then one of the other panels that weren't being displayed before, was now there. So it seems that I can only have 4 panels. I hope I explained this good enough. hahah

Thanks,
Mike

Thanks for the information. So it's always four layouts, independent on whether you are in landscape or portrait mode? Scrolling the list of layouts is not possible?

Chris

Never mind, I think I got it. Wait for the update tonight. It should fix your issues. Thanks for the report!

Patch did not solve the the left menu. Also found that I can no longer duplicate buttons. When in edit mode and select "duplicate button, the window opens that you are supposed to select which panel to duplicate too comes up blank.

Side note, one suggestion, Right now you can select icon aliment, top, bottom, left, right. It would be nice if you could do the same for text.

Thanks,
Mike