On 2/13/2011 06:17, Jim Duda wrote:
> I have always found the LIRC remote with freevo rather annoying.  It certain
> doesn't work anywhere near as smooth as a remote works with like a Cable TV
> box.  It would be wonderful if the remote experience could be improved with
> Freevo.  I just assumed that it was as good as could be given that the remote
> is so fundamental to the HTPC framework.  It never even occurred to me that
> something might be wrong.

I seem to have missed the start of this conversation somewhere (when 
Adam was talking about his remote woes and hoops to jump through). I was 
curious what kind of annoying things your LIRC remote does? I've been 
using LIRC with Freevo for as long as I've had a remote for my Freevo, 
first with a home-built IR receiver (from the LIRC webpage schematics) 
with a variety of remotes, and now with an iMON VFD. I've never had any 
problems with them that I would classify as annoying. I'm sure it's not 
as smooth as a cable box remote, but it's certainly been a smooth, happy 
experience.

My only minor gripe right now is that when a key is held down on the 
iMON remote, it sends the repeating commands rather quickly. Not a 
problem, I set most of the buttons to not repeat... except for the 
directional buttons, because it's better to hold down and zip through a 
menu than to press down each individual time. You have to use a light 
touch on it when you only want to send one direction command... I've had 
times I've pressed it to skip forward in video and suddenly found myself 
watching three minutes later. ^_^

Just my own curiosity of what issues you're having. Or maybe it's a 
relative thing... and that a minor gripe to me is an annoyance to you.

James

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