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Originally Posted by miind

It actualy works pretty ok over the telnet connection. I remotecontrol my myth with this tool though I have a problem. It works very nice to run around in the menues, but after turning on a movie it seems to stop working!? No volume, osd or not even escape work while mplayer is playing the movie. When I get back to myth again I handle it. Anyone know why this happens?

Originally Posted by BatPenguin

First of all, a question to eXeonical: where are the remotes saved? I found the program data at /usr/lib/irreco but can't seem to locate where the user-created remotes are kept.

So could you please let me know which files to copy over if I want to share my two humble myth remotes with you / whoever is interested. A warning though: they're not exactly masterpieces but I guess could be useful as a "first remote" to just test out the program.

And *ahem* since you asked for suggestions/feedback, here goes

First of all, I truly like this application A LOT. I've seen plenty of half-finished applications floating around here and in general, in other Linux forums, and it struck me how finished the look of this thing is. The buttons are beautiful and such, easy to use menus etc. So with all that positive spin in mind, here's a bunch of suggestions: (keep in mind that I've only used this with Myth, so these are all myth-specific things that I'd like to see when editing a remote for myself)

1) It'd be great to able to map more buttons. We have the major frontend functions available now (left, right, enter etc.) but there's still a bunch of very common ones missing. The important ones that come to mind right away are E (edit), R (record), P (pause), Z (skip commercials) and such, but there's plenty of commands you can use in a myth frontend. Things like "list upcoming episodes" etc. could be stuff that some people like to use. "Change input / capture card", b or something? That's a common one for people with multiple capture cards too. A lot of stuff can be configured under "Keys" in myth, so it'd be great to have all of these available and just be able to map your normal computer shortcut key, "r" or whatever, to a button you create, that sorta thing.

2) An option for choosing landscape or portrait remotes. The N810 (and N800 I'm sure) resembles a "normal remote" more if you hold it lenghtwise but at the moment all the text in the buttons will be sideways if you do that. So would this be possible? "Flip remote" option or whatever that would flip the text in the buttons 90 degrees.

3) Different sizes of buttons. Some things, like the arrows, need to be big but I'd like to put a row of small, seldom used buttons at the bottom of a remote. So could we have smaller buttons to choose from?

4) Symbols to put into buttons instead of text. Things like the "power symbol" (red thing whatever) and arrows pointing at various directions etc. for the direction keys. Even putting your own pics into them? If possible.

5) More shapes for buttons: Now we have circles and squares. Triangles (with the tip pointing either up, down, l or r) would be great for arrow keys.

6) Scrollable remotes / second and third pages of buttons? For making a remote that's HUGE, as in larger than the screen, and that you could scroll while using. This way you could map everything under the sun onto a "page 2" of the remote, and just keep the first page nice and clean and go click a "list upcoming episodes" button or something from page 3 of your enormous remote when you need it. For myth, this would truly be needed if one were to use the N8X0 as the "main remote" for a frontend, otherwise you'd never be able to fit all the functions (assuming they can be mapped later, see #1) onto a remote.

I think that's about it for now, hopefully all of that wasn't too unrealistic

Originally Posted by ukki

How about support for vdr? Should be very easy.