Bugzilla – Bug 1391
Remote has become too sensitive
Last modified: 2005-06-07 15:46:48 UTC
With the new firmware 10 and 6.1-299x builds I have trouble getting SlimServer to register just one button press. Example: I'm at "Now Playing", track 1 and want to select track 2 via the grey "Down" button, yet it is nearly impossible to press it short enough. It will go over 2 and on to 3 far too quickly. Has a repeat delay setting quietly died? The fw 9 releases are fine.
It may not be the device itself, but a SlimServer issue. It turns out that we're sometimes sharing mode state between clients. I'm able to recreate the specific problem that Christian mentions when I have more than one Squeezebox running in the same room. If they happen to be getting the same remote signals and are in the same mode, they wind up sharing mode state and certain remote signals such as up & down act redundantly. Attaching a patch momentarily. Cc:ing kdf to review it.
Created attachment 439 [details] Proposed patch for 6.0.x branch
looks fine to me. well spotted! I've had two boxen in the same field of view for months now, but I spent so much effort making sure they were always set to work with two different remote types that I never came across this problem :)
FWIW, I have only one sb2 running and I'm quite sure not even softsqueeze was running at the time. Anyway, I just took the plunge again (to 3033) and it seemed fine, at least for the ten minutes I tested it. Either the original issue got fixed or it is harder to trigger than I first thought.
Hmm...with the proposed patch in (change 3035 and change 3036 on the trunk and branch respectively), I'm going to close this bug since you aren't able to recreate. Feel free to reopen if you see it again and can suggest a reproducible case. Thanks!
Sorry I have to reopen this - I waited a little because it either seemed a bit better in the last couple of builds or it didn't bother me that much. FWIW, my "steps to reproduce": 1. see to it that there's some songs in the current playlist, start playing 2. move to next item using the remote's "down" key. 3. repeat 2. a few times After the third to fifth key press it will not move down one item but two, scrolling by the skipped item very quickly. After that, the next few presses are fine. It's the same with the "up" key. Of course I might be pressing the buttons too long but why every few key presses then? Besides I have to hold a button quite some time for the repeat to trigger. The problem actually seems to get worse when the server machine is idle except for running slimserver.
Christian: I think you are seeing acceleration that happens when you press the up and down arrows. I can't reproduce the behavior you are seeing except when acceleration kicks in.