Long duration keypress

alanrichey · Post by **alanrichey** » Sat Jun 29, 2013 11:12 am

There is a discussion going on across at the Slingbox forum about having a long (4 secs) keypress to send a 4-secs iR burst,

I told them it was impossible, but someone else has questioned that. Was I wrong ? Is there a way to do it ?

Post by **vickyg2003** » Sat Jun 29, 2013 11:34 am

Some devices take a long key press in some situations. This is particularly true for powering on equipment.

In JP1 speak, that translates to having a set number of repeats to simulate the power being held down for 4 seconds. Exactly like setting the repeats to 1 shortens the key press.

Sometimes we have written special protocols for people so that the number of repeats can be tweaked on a key by key basis.

Hope that helps

alanrichey · Post by **alanrichey** » Sat Jun 29, 2013 2:13 pm

Interesting, hadn't thought of that. I guess the problem with just changing the global repeat will be that all the buttons will be the same and that is a recipe for chaos

Post by **vickyg2003** » Sat Jun 29, 2013 3:17 pm

alanrichey wrote:Interesting, hadn't thought of that. I guess the problem with just changing the global repeat will be that all the buttons will be the same and that is a recipe for chaos

Yep, repeating probably kicks in, and then you'll get all the complaints about the arrows jumping all over the place.

This is something we've handled here before. Typically someone will need this for macros in our remotes.

alanrichey · Post by **alanrichey** » Sat Jun 29, 2013 3:35 pm

I'll see how the discussion on the Sling forum goes. No point in doing unnecessary work yet.