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4:58 am
Sling Master
April 30, 2010
One of mine ? If so which one ?
5:52 am
August 21, 2010
sorry, i am a bit confused with your question, here are the answers:
video input – coax (basic cable)
after i have followed your instruction and changed "id.remote.channel.up" to "page.up" / "channel.down" to "page.down", i have tried both of your large & small remotes:
Large remote: "channel +/-" buttons works fine with mouse. "Page +/-" was faded, no actions when clicking mouse over this.
Small remote: the +/- rocker switch has no action when i click mouse pointer over either one. the only way to change channel is click the numbers or physically type =/- on laptop keyboard.
hope this is clear.
6:06 am
Sling Master
April 30, 2010
No, we are talking at cross purposes here 
There are 2 aspects to this Remote business. When you initially run the 'Setup Video Sources' routine for your Slingbox you are asked for type, manufacturer, model numer….. When that is complete and the appropriate remote codes are downloaded you either get a nice pretty realistic remote skin or, if Sling haven't designed the skin then you get the boring basic one.
Now I assume you are in the second category otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation 
So, if the selections you made during that setup downloaded a set of remote codes that didn't include Page +/- then you are wasting your time trying to get the new remote to display them. In fact, as a quick test, if you revert back to Sling's basic remote, do the Page +/- buttons work with that one ?
So the question I was asking related to the selections you made setting up the video source and have NOTHING to do with the new remote.
Al
6:32 am
August 21, 2010
got your point.
the original setup was "coax cable source – basic" no box.
6:39 am
Sling Master
April 30, 2010
OK, in that case there is no point as Page +/- is not part of a basic antenna signal. Only the numbers and Ch+/- functions are implemented.
But now I am REALLY confused. Surely the Sling basic remote is only the small tuner model ? And do the Ch+/- controls work on that ?
And are you saying the Ch +/- buttons do not work on mine ?
If so, what was your original reasoning for changing them to Page+/-
What you have taught me is I need to ask people a lot more questions before I dive in head first giving advice I probably need a template questionaire added to the instructions.
4:25 pm
August 21, 2010
the default slingplayer remote works fine because i believe we did not do any changes to it.
your basic remote was not functioning properly because we modified skin.xml and changed "id.remote.channel.up" to "id.remote.page.up"
i believe it was my fault in the very beginning to start with as i did not clearly explain what i was looking for. let me give you the story again:
i have the slingplayer installed on a laptop and connected to a 40" TV. everytime when i wanted to chang the channel, i have to get up from the sofa and walk over to the TV stand and click on my laptop. my 2 and 1/2 year old boy Ben (who now thinks he is 3) would love to do that for me, except he couldn't get the right key to push most of the time.
i've found this nice "USB multi-media wireless remote" device from internet where the receiver portion connects to the USB port of the laptop, and i can use the remote from my sofa to control my laptop – supposedly, including changing channel up and down.
however, this remote has buttons to do page up, page down, arrow up, arrow down, except for the keys mapping to "=" & "-".
on the current (latest) version of slingplayer, the only keys scrolling channel up and down are the =/- keys. however, if you recall the earlier version of slingplayer (v 1.x) you were able to scroll the channels with page up / page down as well as the up & down arrow keys.
i was trying to find a solution to modify the =/- keys (or re-map?) to page.up/page.down so that i can use the "usb muti-media wireless remote".
if there is no solution to this on the slingplayer 2.x, then i will have to install the older version of the slingplayer, except the older version does not support full-screen display to my TV.
hope this is clear enoguh and makes sense to you. i apologize for the confusion caused by my previous messages.
5:10 pm
Sling Master
April 30, 2010
Wow, I wasn't expecting something that esoteric
I don't think you are thinking this through logically. You have to work out what is happening at each stage.
When you tap the Channel Up on the virtual remote the Slingplayer sends the Channel up command (004 according to PROPERTIES.XML) to the Slingbox to tell the tuner to change channel. So when you changed the rocker key to Page+/- it meant that when you tapped the Channel Up it sent the Page Up command (043) to the Slingbox, which it understanably ignored. Changing any of the functions the way your were trying is going to mean the wrong codes are being sent to the Slingbox and nothing will work, as you have shown. So you CANNOT change the virtual remote in that way. And the fact that your IR device has buttons labelled Page+/- is totaly irrelevant to the Slingplayer/Slingbox, they don't know that
So now we have to look at your IR device. When you send the Page+/- command from the device to your laptop it gets told to action a Page+/-. So what we need to do is make the Page+/- keys on your laptop send the Ch+/- code to your Slingbox.
So I reckon if you open REMOTE.XML, go to the<Shortcuts> section and make it read
<Shortcuts>
<Shortcut cmd="id.remote.exit" keys="X" />
<Shortcut cmd="id.remote.back" keys="Backspace" />
<Shortcut cmd="id.remote.menu.source" keys="M" />
<Shortcut cmd="id.remote.channel.up" keys="PageUp" />
<Shortcut cmd="id.remote.channel.down" keys="PageDown" />
</Shortcuts>
it might work. The logic being that when you tell Slingplayer to a Page Up/Down it will use the shortcut and actually send the Channel Up/Down codes.
All total guesswrok and no-one will be more surprised than me if it works
5:22 pm
June 10, 2010
ronindave said:
your basic remote was not functioning properly because we modified skin.xml and changed "id.remote.channel.up" to "id.remote.page.up"
OMG! After reading this thread and being thoughly confused by the conversation between you and Alan, I finally figured out the issue.
You're trying to change the "IR code to function" keymap, instead of trying to change the keyboard shortcut.
- <Map key="004" cmd="id.remote.channel.up" />
- <Shortcut cmd="id.remote.channel.up" keys="=" />
- <Map key="005" cmd="id.remote.channel.down" />
- <Shortcut cmd="id.remote.channel.down" keys="-" />
- <Map key="043" cmd="id.remote.page.up" />
- <Shortcut cmd="id.remote.page.up" keys="PageUp" />
- <Map key="044" cmd="id.remote.page.down" />
- <Shortcut cmd="id.remote.page.down" keys="PageDown" />
Please, note these settings are near one another in the file, I just place them next to each other for clarification.
The "MAP" section defines the stored IR function with the mapped command. The "shortcut" maps the mapped command with the keyboard shortcuts.
I think this is what you should do…
- <Map key="004" cmd="id.remote.channel.up" />
- <Shortcut cmd="id.remote.channel.up" keys="PageUp" />
- <Map key="005" cmd="id.remote.channel.down" />
- <Shortcut cmd="id.remote.channel.down" keys="PageDown" />
- <Map key="043" cmd="id.remote.page.up" />
- <Shortcut cmd="id.remote.page.up" keys="=" />
- <Map key="044" cmd="id.remote.page.down" />
- <Shortcut cmd="id.remote.page.down" keys="-" />
Swapp the key's between the two sets to make sure that the shortcuts do not conflict with one another.
5:31 pm
Sling Master
April 30, 2010
So are you saying my suggestion is correct ? Not sure what your post is for ?
5:36 pm
June 10, 2010
Just one of those time where I was composing while you've already written the answer.
5:43 pm
Sling Master
April 30, 2010
You need to be quicker
5:50 pm
June 10, 2010
I write slow and not to mention, I keep re-editing even after it has been posted. My problem is that my thoughts races as I write, and my fingers can't keep up with it. Most of the time what I end up typing is only a small subset of what I meant to say. This has always been my downfall.
But, at least I have pretty colors!
5:53 pm
Moderator
April 19, 2010
Sorry guys but you both are wrong.
The default keys and mapping are not affected by those changes. Remember in another post where I said you could delete everything in the Property.xml file and the keyboard commands are still there and the same?
I need to take a look and figure out where it get's the info from but ronindave hold off on trying that for a bit.
6:02 pm
June 10, 2010
I thought we were talking about the "remote.xml" file? My post was referencing that file since that's what helped Dewdguy on his Mac. I figured it was the focusing point, didn't realize "properties.xml" file was being used.
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