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    #46
    Re: IR support

    Finally got my Dongle yesterday.

    I was happily surprised at how sleek and unimposing it is. With the sticky tape and the notched design, it comes close to looking like it's an intergral part of the VUDU box (if you do a good job of hiding the wire to the back connector).

    I programmed my Harmony 680 days ago while waiting for the dongle to arrive.

    I plugged in the dongle and was all excited, but it initially didn't work with my remote. After re-plugging the connector in 3 times it finally came alive and now everything seems to be working great. Don't really know if I had a problem making a good physical connection or if it took a while for the box to recognize the dongle, but all that matters is that it now seems to be working.

    The only mod I made (so far) to my remote was that I assigned the right arrow button to the "Select" command and the left arrow button to the "Back" command. Doing that seems to give the remote a more realistic sense of up, down and left, right when using the arrow keys.

    When I get around to it I'll create a macro button to take me to my favorite movie search query. The VUDU "Home" command will really help to facilitate that. If I get it working like I think I can, I'll probably start ****'n and moan'n when VUDU changes their UI, which would force me to change my macro. But I promise not to **** and moan too much for the sake of future improvements.

    I'll use the dongle for probably for a week or so and if everything looks good, then I'll hold an official burial for my VUDU remote, when I bury it in my emeritus "Box Of Unused Remotes".

    Overall..... Great job VUDU!!!

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      #47
      Re: IR support

      The connection into the I/O port needs to have the dongle pushed in really hard. I don't know how the production dongles work or look but the prototypes we have needed to be really pushed in hard.

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        #48
        Re: IR support

        Originally posted by NA9D View Post
        I don't know how the production dongles work or look
        Here is a pic from my crappy cell phone. The dongle is on the top left of the VUDU box.

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          #49
          Re: IR support

          Originally posted by RobertHodge View Post
          Finally got my Dongle yesterday.

          When I get around to it I'll create a macro button to take me to my favorite movie search query. The VUDU "Home" command will really help to facilitate that.
          Well I tried creating a macro on my Harmony 670 to go to Genres and search for new movies that are rentable.

          But no luck. Their term for macro is called a command sequence. It appears I can only use up to five commands in any one sequence. I didn't think that would be a problem until I found that I cannot figure a way for one sequence to call another one, thereby preventing me from chaining sequences together.

          So unless someone knows how to get around this, I'm pretty much screwed from what I was hoping to do.

          Right now, the only way I can see having a command sequence of 5 or less commands to get what I want is if VUDU's search criteria and filters were persistent.

          It's kind of odd.... After going through this excercise, I did notice that the sort criteria for the search results "is" persistent. i.e. If I set it to sort by "release date", it stays that way across sessions, until I change it to something else. I think it would be great if the rest of the search criteria elements exhibited the same behaviour.

          Regards

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            #50
            Re: IR support

            Oh.... as an addendum to my previous post.

            It takes exactly 27 button clicks to search for all movies in the last 6 months that are rentable and sorted by release date.

            No wonder my poor arthritic fingers are sore!!!

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              #51
              Re: IR support

              No need to do so much work! Wow!

              I'll see if I can figger out something as I think it can be done with fewer keystrokes. Keep in mind that the Vudu UI does change from time to time. So if you are setting things up by the number of clicks and so forth, you may need to change it again at a later date...

              Of course, it would be simpler if they'd just have a "new rentals" section. Maybe that would be a good feature request for you to file. I don't know if anyone has ever thought of that (maybe - there's a lot of them).

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                #52
                Re: IR support

                Originally posted by NA9D View Post
                No need to do so much work! Wow!

                I'll see if I can figger out something as I think it can be done with fewer keystrokes. Keep in mind that the Vudu UI does change from time to time. So if you are setting things up by the number of clicks and so forth, you may need to change it again at a later date...

                Of course, it would be simpler if they'd just have a "new rentals" section. Maybe that would be a good feature request for you to file. I don't know if anyone has ever thought of that (maybe - there's a lot of them).
                Thanks!

                I tried to Hypno-Toad my remote into compliance, but the remote appears to be immune to its power.

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                  #53
                  Re: IR support

                  Originally posted by RobertHodge View Post
                  Thanks!

                  I tried to Hypno-Toad my remote into compliance, but the remote appears to be immune to its power.
                  Robert,

                  What Harmony remote are you using(model number)....

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                    #54
                    Re: IR support

                    Originally posted by RonV View Post
                    Robert,

                    What Harmony remote are you using(model number)....
                    It's a Harmony 670.

                    Just bought it about 2 months ago.

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                      #55
                      Re: IR support

                      It's kind of a kludge, but you can create an activity to send those commands. I did that to get my DVD player to turn on subtitles and switch to time remaining (instead of elapsed) with one button. There is probably a better way, though.

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                        #56
                        Re: IR support

                        Originally posted by RobertHodge View Post
                        It's a Harmony 670.

                        Just bought it about 2 months ago.
                        Great...it should have enough memory for this trick. You can actually trick the Harmony into accepting multiple commands into one label. Since you have two Harmony's you can do this trick.

                        You will need to be logged into the Harmony software and use the remote that you want to program. Then what you can do is setup the learn function and learn using "RAW" mode (It should still be there I did it last year to setup some TiVo Macros).

                        When learning the IR codes in RAW you can do multiple presses of the sender remote (ie. right-right-right-select-select) and then stop learning and save it to a new function.

                        I may try this tonight just to make sure its still works. I'd hate to lose my TiVo macro functionality.

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                          #57
                          Re: IR support

                          Originally posted by NA9D View Post
                          We will get you information on this.
                          Ok here goes,
                          Got my dongle today and was tired of waiting for URC to update the database. I tried to cut and paste the previously posted hex codes from the Pronto to the remote software and darn it, it works great!!!! I have posted the source files for a MX900 and MX850 in this message. Let me know if you have any questions.

                          Walter Wright
                          Last edited by Guk35; 03-17-2008, 04:13 PM. Reason: Update

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                            #58
                            Re: IR support

                            Originally posted by MaxH View Post
                            It's kind of a kludge, but you can create an activity to send those commands. I did that to get my DVD player to turn on subtitles and switch to time remaining (instead of elapsed) with one button. There is probably a better way, though.
                            I think you're talking about the sequence list that you can set when the Activity starts. Am I correct?

                            If so, that would be a kludge but since it's the very first thing I do when switching to VUDU that may be a good stop gap. I'll take a look at that.

                            Let me know if I misunderstood what you said.

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                              #59
                              Re: IR support

                              Originally posted by RonV View Post
                              Great...it should have enough memory for this trick. You can actually trick the Harmony into accepting multiple commands into one label. Since you have two Harmony's you can do this trick.

                              You will need to be logged into the Harmony software and use the remote that you want to program. Then what you can do is setup the learn function and learn using "RAW" mode (It should still be there I did it last year to setup some TiVo Macros).

                              When learning the IR codes in RAW you can do multiple presses of the sender remote (ie. right-right-right-select-select) and then stop learning and save it to a new function.

                              I may try this tonight just to make sure its still works. I'd hate to lose my TiVo macro functionality.
                              I only have one Harmony but my other one is an older MX-100. But that's definitely something worth trying. Maybe I can the old guy (the wise owl that knows how to do it the old fashioned way) to teach the pub how to do it. I'll let you know how it turns out.

                              BTW Owls eat mice too!!!

                              P.S.S. I would really like to know if Brain has ever made it all the way through a viewing of "Snakes on a Plane" ???

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                                #60
                                Who do you have to bribe to get a drink around here?

                                Originally posted by RobertHodge View Post
                                I only have one Harmony but my other one is an older MX-100. But that's definitely something worth trying. Maybe I can the old guy (the wise owl that knows how to do it the old fashioned way) to teach the pub how to do it. I'll let you know how it turns out.

                                BTW Owls eat mice too!!!

                                P.S.S. I would really like to know if Brain has ever made it all the way through a viewing of "Snakes on a Plane" ???
                                If it wasn't for the reference to a pub I'd be tempted to put that poster on my ignore list...

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