New Firefly Sofware (works also for Streamzap)

[backlash]

Just donated today, and I am really glad I found this software. It's like girder in a sence but has a much easier learning curve. Thanks for all your work put into this software.

I tried to download the file from the link I receive in an email and it tells me that it is not a valid win32 application. I have found the firefly edition1.9 for donators and installed that instead. For some reason when I go to download a profile, the profile is no different then mine, and mine doesn't even work, with meedio I am talking about. I have run into a snag some place....when I use the keyboard to interface with meedio it works fine and all the commands work. When I set these commands to be taken over by the remote, nothing responds right. If you could help me out here i will be greatly appriciated.

[metzz71]

2 things... i'm trying to map a key to keypress alt+f4... is that possible, i can't find it.

Secondly, is it possible to use your app in command line, in order to send multiple key presses? for instance, sometimes my STB gets hung in service menu... channel up, channel down, cancel will fix this issue. Can I setup a .bat to send those commands?

[StephaneM]

Originally Posted by metzz71

2 things... i'm trying to map a key to keypress alt+f4... is that possible, i can't find it.

The "Alt" key is called "Menu" / "LeftMenu" / "RightMenu".

Secondly, is it possible to use your app in command line, in order to send multiple key presses? for instance, sometimes my STB gets hung in service menu... channel up, channel down, cancel will fix this issue. Can I setup a .bat to send those commands?

There is no command line support. However there is partial COM support for channel changing.

So you have two choices :

* create a "macro" that will be activated when you press on a remote button (use "Blast" actions as needed, you can use a "Pause" action if needed).

* If you don't have any "before" and "after" commands used for the channel change plugin, you can use a vbs script (copy paste this code in a txt file, and rename it as .vbs, double clicking the file will make the blaster work)

Dim oChannelChanger
Set oChannelChanger = WScript.CreateObject("LMRemoteKeyMap.ChannelChanger")
Call oChannelChanger.ChannelChange("XXXXXXXXXXXX","YY")

Where :

* XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX = Device ID (you'll find it in C:\ProgramData\LM Gestion\LM Remote KeyMap\devices.xml)
* YY = Channel number (Y is supposed to be a digit, so in your case you'll have to create a "U" button for "Up", a "D" button for "Down", a "C" button for "Cancel", so instead of using "123" to change to channel number 123, use "UDC" to change to channel "Up/Down/Cancel" )

If you have before and after commands for channel changing, create another (bogus) IR device to create the "C" / "U" / "D" buttons.

Regards,
Stéphane.

[encoder]

I want to launch BTV regardless of what window has focus. Is this possible?

[StephaneM]

Originally Posted by encoder

I want to launch BTV regardless of what window has focus. Is this possible?

Yes, use a "LaunchApplication" action in the default profile for the button of your choice, then make sure that all other remote profile are not using this button (remove any actions for this button on other remote profiles).

Regards,
Stéphane.

[encoder]

Thanks for the response. But I had already tried that. The problem was: The settings for the Default profile did not stick. Here's what I did: I set up a launch action for the Firefly button, clicked OK to dismiss the Default profile edit screen. But when I brought up the edit screen again the settings were gone. The profile settings were saved only for a profile named something other than "Default".

I thought I read somewhere that the Default profile was not supposed to be modifiable. Is there a trick to modify it?


Thanks.

[StephaneM]

Originally Posted by encoder

The settings for the Default profile did not stick. Here's what I did: I set up a launch action for the Firefly button, clicked OK to dismiss the Default profile edit screen. But when I brought up the edit screen again the settings were gone.I thought I read somewhere that the Default profile was not supposed to be modifiable.

You can customize the default profile by adding actions to the buttons, though you cannot modify the name, description and target application fields.

So you may have a corrupted profile file. You can either uninstall LM RKM (choosing "Yes" when asked about removing all data) and install it again. Or try to repair your profiles.xml file (it is located in C:\Documents And Settings\All Users\Application Data\LM Gestion\LM Remote KeyMap or C:\ProgramData\LM Gestion\LM Remote KeyMap) : shutdown LM RKM, rename the profiles.xml file and restart LM RKM, you'll get a brand new profiles.xml file. Then verify that you can edit the default profile. You'll then be able to copy / paste your old profile definition into the new profiles.xml file.

Regards,
Stéphane.

[encoder]

Yep, deleting the profiles.xml fixed the Default profile save probelm. Thanks!

[rugby]

I just installed Vista on my main HTPC and am having some problems. I set up the default setting to launch BTV when the TV button is pressed, but nothing happens. I installed 3.7 and it's been so long since i set this up originally I'm not sure on what to do.

[StephaneM]

Originally Posted by rugby

I set up the default setting to launch BTV when the TV button is pressed, but nothing happens.

Usually, you edit the default profile and add a "LaunchApplication" action to the "TV" button, and browse for the BTV executable (BTVD3DShell.exe) and that's all.

However, if BTV is not launching, verify that you do not have a profile that customized the "TV" button preventing the action in the default profile to be carried on (you can verify what LM RKM is doing by setting the trace level to "verbose" by using the taskbar notification icon and take a look at the trace file in ProgramData\LM Gestion\LM Remote KeyMap)

Regards,
Stéphane.

[rugby]

Originally Posted by StephaneM

Usually, you edit the default profile and add a "LaunchApplication" action to the "TV" button, and browse for the BTV executable (BTVD3DShell.exe) and that's all.

However, if BTV is not launching, verify that you do not have a profile that customized the "TV" button preventing the action in the default profile to be carried on (you can verify what LM RKM is doing by setting the trace level to "verbose" by using the taskbar notification icon and take a look at the trace file in ProgramData\LM Gestion\LM Remote KeyMap)

Regards,
Stéphane.

That's what I did and nothing happened. It's weird because I uninstalled lmremote and used the firefly installer and everything worked. I had nothing installed before installing lmremote to begin with, no profiles installed either.

I'll try it again in a day or two, I've been so busy rebuilding this box after it burned out that I'm done messing around for a while.

[StephaneM]

Originally Posted by rugby

I had nothing installed before installing lmremote to begin with, no profiles installed either.

That should be your problem: you have to install either the Firefly drivers, or Beyond Media Basic (that you disable or uninstall after), otherwise you have no drivers setup for the Firefly remote and LM RKM will not work.

Regards,
Stéphane.

[rugby]

Okay, I ran the installer for just the drivers (and got the rundll crash message in vista but it still installed). and everything seems good. I think I need to choose a new powerdvd profile however as the one that downloaded is bunk.

[rugby]

New problem, the default profile isn't giving way to a profile associated with an app. For instance, beyond tv profile won't allow me to change the volume inside beyond tv. The profile is loaded however the key commands that are being executed are the ones from the default profile and not the beyond tv profile.

[StephaneM]

Originally Posted by rugby

beyond tv profile won't allow me to change the volume inside beyond tv. The profile is loaded however the key commands that are being executed are the ones from the default profile

For this you'll have to make sure that the "Target Application" fields for your BTV profiles are OK: that is the window title / class / executable name. You only need one of these fields for profile matching (the safer one is the executable name), just press on the "Record" button when editing the BTV profile and having BTV in focus to have LM RKM copy the correct values (and then keep only the executable name).

Then whenever BTV is in focus, LM RKM will select this profile. If not it's either because BTV is not in focus, or you have forced another profile. If you set the trace level to verbose (using the task bar icon) and look at the trace log, you'll see exactly what LM RKM is doing when you press on a button.

Regards,
Stéphane.