Bugzilla – Bug 16215
Behavior change in IR commands
Last modified: 2011-05-20 16:43:40 UTC
Did we change the way we interpret IR commands between 7.4.2 and 7.5.0? The reason I bring this up is because a user reported an issue where his Harmony remote no longer works for selecting a preset on his Radio. This used to work with 7.4.2. He reports that all the other buttons still work as they should. So volume and play/pause work. I was able to reproduce this issue. This issue is also true for our standard IR remote (I tested with Touch IR remote). It worked in 7.4.2 for me and now doesn't work with 7.5.0 with either the Harmony or Touch IR remote I have.
Favorites and Presets are now two different things. Presets are only controllable via front panel buttons on a Boom or Radio. Favorites can be controlled via an IR remote, playerUI or webUI.
Julius emailed me saying: "Just for my reference, when you say Favorites are now controllable via IR Remote, you don't mean that they are playable by just selecting a Number Key, correct? One needs to go to the actual favorites menu page to select a favorite, correct?" Hmm. I always thought the intended behavior was that IR remote numbered buttons still were used to set and play favorites. Testing now with SbS 7.6, this does not seem to be the case. The numbered IR buttons seem to do something with presets, but I'm not quite sure exactly what. The behavior does not seem consistent between ip3k and SP player types. Sorry for closing your bug prematurely.
Mark, No worries. This is starting to become a support contact driver, so I want to make sure it is addressed. Just to recap, in 7.4.2, numbered buttons, well, 1-6 anyway controlled presets 1-6. If we can make a change to correct this and have it affect favorites in the same way, I think we'll have a solution for the users using presets and remote buttons 1-6 to control them. Should we file a different bug at this point?
This is fixed at least for Harmony remotes. I've added six discrete IR commands for presets 1 to 6 in SC 7.6 r30847. preset_1 = 76898a75 preset_2 = 76894ab5 preset_3 = 7689ca35 preset_4 = 76892ad5 preset_5 = 7689aa55 preset_6 = 76896a95 Paikan (Harmony guy) knows about them and will integrate them into the Harmony database. Full IR codes sets can be found here: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/RemoteIRCodes
I consider this done.
Closing due to comments, and cannot reproduce in 32398