Bugzilla – Bug 15579
can't shut off another device without shutting down local controller too
Last modified: 2010-04-16 09:04:46 UTC
If you select choose player and have control of another player there is no menu item to switch the other player off so you must use the power button. this switches the other player off along with the controller in touch so it may continue to play but there is no display and no way to control it until you switch it back on which turns on the player you were controlling. Waking up your visiting in-laws. This should be more like Jive where the controller stays alive and you can switch around between players at random. You should be able to switch players turn on/off, volume whatever than switch players back to the local one and control it properly.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 15578 ***
let's make bug 15578 a dupe of this one - it's got a better description
*** Bug 15578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Ben, I realize this is a complex bug, which may have server-side parts, but I'm just going to start with you since there's definitely a heavy SP component.
fyi, player power was explicitly removed from the menu, by design. from SlimMenus.lua elseif item.id == "playerpower" and System:hasSoftPower() and System:getMachine() ~= 'squeezeplay' then --ignore, playerpower no longer shown to users since we use power button, unless this is a device without a power button this is actually not that complex of a bug, we just need to decide what to do. The suggestion is at least in partial contradiction to what was decided on several months ago by the (now gone) design team. I'll give this some further thought and see if I can spec it out myself.
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #8448 to the jive repo by bklaas == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=8448 == Fixed Bug: 15579 Description: allow player power menu item on home menu when controlling a non-local player
Yes I like the new menu item. However; when you choose a player and turn it off the local controller also sleeps, and the remote player wakes up when you turn on the local player. So the new menu item is there to turn it off but the functionality is the same as it was. 8504
The "When Off" screensaver appears when the controlled player is turned off, by design. My inclination now is that this is a WONTFIX and I should revert the previous change. Tagging with bug_meeting.
When controlling with jive you are able to shutdown a player then choose another to control, control it etc. without the jive shuting down. Anyway I like having the menu item for the controlled player power down. As a user it gives a better understanding of what is going on. Remote or local player.
Ben will revert the change.
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #8535 to the repo by bklaas == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/?view=revision&revision=8535 == Bug: 15579 Description: revert earlier change. Turn Off Player will not be a menu item for system's with soft power availability.
This is a WONTFIX The decision to remove the Turn Player Off menu item for players with soft power button capability was made by the design team last fall and will stay.
understand the desire not to change design decisions, but can this be reviewed in light of user experience now the product is in the market? http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77392 If the Touch can't effectively switch off other players, it can't really be said to be able to control them. When I say "effectively" I mean that the Touch can do something else after switching off one other player without having to switch that other player back on.