RMIR Xsight Support

mdavej · Post by **mdavej** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 9:24 am

Graham, is there anything you could add to the vbs script to give RM permissions to Program Files or Program Files (x86)? Or should we just advise people to not put RM in those folders?

EDIT: Looks like this will do it, where strFolder is %ProgramFiles% & RM path and strNTGroup is "Users" or something like that:

objShell.Run "%COMSPEC% /c cacls """ & strFolder & """ /T /E /G " & strNTGroup & ":W”, 0, True

Post by **mathdon** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 12:26 pm

Dave, I know nothing about VBS or the setup.vbs script, which I think was written by Greg. Your suggested addition is gobbledegook to me

. I don't like the idea of messing with basic OS permissions of that sort and would much prefer that users should be advised not to unzip RMIR to read-only folders.

In my view, RMIR is a program for hobbyists rather than a standard application of the sort that goes into Program Files, so I think it best in any case that it is not installed in the Program Files folder.

mdavej · Post by **mdavej** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 1:37 pm

In that case, maybe just add a little blurb to the readme (Getting Started step 4) the next time you post a new version?

Post by **mathdon** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 5:20 pm

mdavej wrote:In that case, maybe just add a little blurb to the readme (Getting Started step 4) the next time you post a new version?

Yes, I had already decided I should do that.

Sterling · Post by **Sterling** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 7:06 pm

I'm using Windows 10 64 bit and have done the registry mod for the USB communication. I was refining some commands last weekend and decided it was good enough for then. Today I tried to do some refinements. When I try to upload a configuration I get a "writeRemote returned 0" message. When I try to download from the remote there are no devices and no memory used. The remote still works, just can't upload/download configurations. I think the last file I uploaded is corrupted since RemoteMaster starts doing some funky things when I try to use the functions tab in the last configuration I uploaded. It does this on both computers that I have previously successfully used with my remote. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Sterling

mdavej · Post by **mdavej** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 7:37 pm

Need to do the reg fix again.

pH7_jp1 · Post by **pH7_jp1** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 10:04 pm

I would like to hear if this solves the problem for you. I had a similar thing happen. It worked fine the first day I used it and then never again. I have tried the register fix many times, both the reg file and the manual process. This happened to me in Windows 8, never got it to work. I hoped that in going to Windows 10 things might improve - no. Thank goodness I still have an old 32 bit Windows 7 machine.

mdavej · Post by **mdavej** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:35 am

Problem is reg key moves and gets undone sometimes. I've been though this with Xsight/Nevo and at least 4 Win 10 PCs. Haven't lost one yet. But I can say that Win 10 is generally a huge PITA.

I have updated my reg files recently to cover the moved/renamed reg keys. But they are difficult to apply in Win 10 due to permissions. It's easier to just look around for all of the same VID and fix them manually.

Sterling · Post by **Sterling** » Sat Jan 16, 2016 11:03 am

That was it. My power management had been changed back to 1. However, my file is corrupt. I think it has to do with trying to add a device that has more commands than the remote has keys plus some learned options. I rolled back to a previous version and am taking a different approach.

mlibbey · Post by **mlibbey** » Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:08 am

OMG, RM is super awesome! Thank you, Thank you, thank you!!!!

As a Mac user, I was buying Parallels Desktop every year and trying to keep a Windows XP image on it so that I could use IE 6 to access ez-rc every once in a blue moon. No more! Woot!!!

I have 2 questions:
- In the Activities Tab, what does the Activities Group Assignments area do?
- I read through the icons thread, but, I couldn't figure out how to add custom icons for the device (eg, General tab > Double click the Icon check box). The import icon button seems disabled.

mdavej · Post by **mdavej** » Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:36 am

That's for assigning those groups of buttons to specific devices, i.e., the playback keys to you DVR and vol keys to your AVR.

You can't assign custom icons to devices or activities, only to commands and favorite channels.

deerewright · Post by **deerewright** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 4:44 pm

Is anyone sucessfully using this with Linux? I had it working with my ARRX18G in linux for awhile, but something has changed, and I can no longer access my remote. In windows 10 it sees the remote, and it says it is downloading from the remote, but nothing is filled in in RMIR. In linux, it keeps telling me no remote found.

I am using the latest download of RemoteMaster, on Ubuntu 14.04 64bit.

Forgive me if this has already been discussed, but a search of the forums turned up nothing.... Is there a way to search this particular topic?

Post by **mathdon** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 6:34 am

Since you had it working before, I assume that your RMIR installation is OK. If, however, you have changed your installation, make sure that you downloaded the full installation file and not the upgrade one. Unzipping the upgrade file into a new folder will give something that opens but does not work properly.

If your installation is OK then I would draw your attention to the following two extracts from the first post in the announcement thread:

If your OS is Linux then run Setup.sh from Terminal as a shell script. If the current directory in Terminal is the RemoteMaster installation directory then the command "sh Setup.sh" will run the script. It creates two .desktop shortcuts, one for RMIR and the other (named RemoteMaster) for RM. They will be created in your installation folder, but they are also copied to your $HOME/.local/share/applications folder to ensure that they appear on your Dash. Setup.sh will also add you to the dialout group of users, if you are not already in it. If you need to be added, then it will ask you for your sudo password as this step needs to be run with root privileges. This step is needed to enable RMIR to access USB serial ports without RMIR itself being run as root. Linux users will find further information in this thread in the JP1 forum.
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When using XSight remotes (and similar ones such as Nevo) with Windows 8.1, Enhanced Power Management needs to be disabled for the USB port concerned. A registry fix to do this is available here. This fix is needed to enable use with EZ-RC.com as well as with RMIR.

Even if you have done these before, then repeat them. The Windows item, in particular, is known to get reset unpredictably to its default and may need frequent repeating. It refers to Windows 8.1 but also applies to Windows 10.

These seem to be the most likely cause of your problems. Please let us know how you get on.

deerewright · Post by **deerewright** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:15 am

I have been banging my head against the wall for days on this now, with no results. I finally gave up and am managing by using winxp on virtualbox. But would really love to get it to work natively in Ubuntu again. It "feels" to me like a driver issue, but I am not sophisticated enough with linux to figure out how to reinstall the drivers.

Another thought I just had: I am using the Open JDK for my java install. Could it be an issue with that. Do I need to try Oracle java again?

Also, I have checked lsusb, and sometimes the remote shows up, sometimes it doesn't. Sounds similar to the windows 8/10 issue?

deerewright · Post by **deerewright** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 9:52 am

I am finally able to get RMIR to work and donwload from the remote.

I had to run it as root however. Is that normal, or is there a way to run this as a normal user. What I did was run from terminal:

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sudo java -jar Remotemaster.jar

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RemoteMaster stopped communicating with Xsight Touch

Wow!

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