On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:29 PM, James Trietsch <kero...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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
I have never really had much trouble with my freevo remote, and recently I had to get a Cable box ( thanks Comcast). Turns out my Freevo remote works much better than the cable box remote. I use a custom lirc remote file to be sure it works exactly with my remote sender and receiver. I have seen trouble using other peoples files even for the same remote. Evan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
