JP1 Remotes

mathdon · Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:22 pm Post subject:

Here is RMIR v2.01 alpha 8. The features added to alpha 7 are

When a device upgrade that includes key moves is assigned to more than one device button, it creates a corresponding key move for each of those device buttons. This has consequences both for the import of a .ir file with the same device upgrade on more than one device button and for the detaching of keymoves from a device upgrade in these circumstances. The import process can only attach a keymove to the device upgrade if that key move is present on all the device buttons concerned, and detaching a key move from one of the device buttons should detach it also from the other ones. These situations are now handled correctly in alpha 8 but were not in previous versions.

There is now a new item, "Primacy", on the Advanced menus of both RM and RMIR that provides a choice between two settings, "OBC" and "EFC/Hex". When "OBC" is selected, changing or editing a protocol will preserve the values of device parameters such as OBC. If "EFC/Hex" is selected then the hex command (and so also its EFC) is preserved.

The Advanced menu in RM also has a new item "Edit Protocol" that enables all protocols to be edited. When the protocol is a standard one that is in protocols.ini then this enables custom code to be set for that protocol, as is currently possible in the Devices panel of RMIR.

There have been few comments made on the growing list of new features that are appearing in these alpha versions. I do hope that those interested in RMIR are downloading these alphas and trying out the new features. I know that "no news is good news" so I have to take it that the absence of comments means that these features are being tested and have passed muster. If there are bugs, I can do nothing about them unless I am told about them, so please continue testing and report any problems. Positive comments are also very welcome Smile

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Graham

Thomas · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 87

Graham,

I was just in the process of documenting an IR file with keymove issues - import with RMIR, add/clone keymoves, save as file.RMIR and save as file.IR - after which RMIR_a6 could not open the .RMIR version.

IR.EXE, however, could open file.IR, and adding keymoves and saving produced a file that RMIR_a6 could open. Had me scratching my head.

The newer, better RMIR_a8 has apparently resolved that problem, and saved me from having to untangle my very convoluted documentation. :)

Slightly OT, I had not used the IR-import function until programming an RCRP05B for a friend - I was getting spurious outputs with un-programmed keys. Finally solved by starting over from scratch and clearing everything out of the remote, and my problems went away.

981 reset is your friend........
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Tom Carlson

vickyg2003 · Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 11:40 am Post subject:

Thomas · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 87

Thank you, I stand corrected!
Tom
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Tom Carlson

3FG · Expert Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 3367

Thomas · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 87

I'm afraid not, sorry. I was trying to solve the keymove issue, with RMIR failing to open my .rmir file, and had various versions of that file, and .IR files, and RMIR ver 2.x alpha.x all piled in one folder.

The final straw was when I deleted a keymove and noticed that an unprogrammed key was now sending a legit, but unwanted command. I restored the keymove, the problem went away, and at that point I deleted the mess, reset the remote and started over. Also found that I was using an obsolete version of the RCRP05B RDF - replaced with the 1.32 version.

I believe that the root cause was my casual handling of device upgrades. If ever encounter that problem again, I will provide you with the details.
Tom

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jsiddall · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 2

mathdon · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 5:19 pm Post subject:

I have now posted RMIR v2.02 Alpha. This corrects three minor bugs in v2.01 and adds one feature. The bugs were that fixed data was not being used to resolve RDF ambiguities on download, that RMIR crashed on loading a .rmir file containing a device upgrade with missing protocol upgrade, and that raw download has not worked since the highlighting feature was added. The new feature is that the status bar now displays a message during uploads and downloads, to provide a visual indication that the operation is still in progress.
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Graham

Vynce · Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 17

I have an IR file that won't open in RMIR. I've tried re-saving it in IR 8.03 and I've tried opening it in RMIR 2.01 and 2.02 alpha. RMIR doesn't give any errors; the file just doesn't open. Is there a debug log somewhere?

The IR file can be downloaded from here, if you want to play with it. It's designed for an old style URC-6131 with a 2K EEPROM.

mathdon · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:40 pm Post subject:

Vynce · Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 17

Cool, thanks! It looks like it's throwing an exception while processing the keymoves:

ElizabethD · Advanced Member Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 2348

Vynce,
Your file is http://www.mediafire.com/?pp97l68f136p090
not our Diagnosis section. Please post in the Diagnosis section here. See above File Section and navigate to Diagnosis, then upload and post a link. Thanks.
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Liz
Tweeking 8910, HTPro/9811, C7-7800, 6131o, 6131n, AtlasOCAP-1056B01, RCA-RCRP05B and enjoying the ride Smile

Vynce · Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 17

Sorry, I didn't see that file section. I've uploaded my problem IR file there and corrected the link in my previous post.

Here's the new link as well:
http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload.php?action=file&file_id=9625

ElizabethD · Advanced Member Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 2348

I can't open that file either Sad

using RMIR 2.01 with 2.02 alpha .jar file. Same or similar list of exceptions.
Thanks for relocating the file.
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Liz
Tweeking 8910, HTPro/9811, C7-7800, 6131o, 6131n, AtlasOCAP-1056B01, RCA-RCRP05B and enjoying the ride Smile