IR loses comments and changes bound device in keymove??

chas6000 · Post by **chas6000** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:32 am

using IR5.10 (but also a problem in 5.00), URC9910 with Extender1

created device on db-12 (HOME auto 0167)

created keymove with LKP mapped to a key press for db-12 device and added comments

everything looks good at this point. save the file, exit IR

come back into IR and load file, now for the keymove it says bound device is CD and the comments are gone (for this keymove only - other comments on other keymoves still there).

looking at the file itself, the comments are still on this keymove and the bound device is still db-12! so it is being changed (and the comments lost) on loading into IR.

Any ideas for how I should proceed or is this a bug that I will have to wait for a fix on?

thanks for the help!

pgk · Post by **pgk** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:02 am

You are falling into a trap with logical devices, one of the restrictions is that you can't use keymoves onto logical devices. The reason being that keymoves only have 3 bits to represent the device, so this limits it to the first 8 devices, which effectively excludes all the logical devices.

So the device code is getting truncated to 3 bits long which for db-12 (I guess) will be the same as CD.

This is mentioned in the readme for the extender:

- You can't put KeyMoves on logical devices. This is because there are
only 3 bits available to specify the device in a keymove and all of the
logical devices numbers take 4 bits.

chas6000 · Post by **chas6000** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:07 am

thanks much!! -- is there a way around? i dont think i can map a keymove toa shift-device can i?

pgk · Post by **pgk** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:26 am

dont think i can map a keymove toa shift-device can i?

I'm not sure, I would have thought you could with the extender since device keys are usually just like any other keys, should only take a few mintues to test.

johnsfine · Post by **johnsfine** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:32 am

Each KeyMove you define is shared by two device modes. If you bind a Keymove in TV mode that KeyMove is also live in db-08 mode. If you bind it in CD mode it is also live in db-12 mode, etc.

Depending on how intensively you want to customize your remote, that may be the solution to your problem (you CAN have keymoves usable within those extra device modes) or it may represent a bigger problem (keymoves are live in a mode other than the one you wanted them in).