Notices

Yes, Blu-ray is supported by Pierogi. In fact, all the Blu-ray controls I have seen so far have been more-or-less identical to their DVD counterparts (which I guess only makes sense). Odds are good that you'd be able to use a given manufacturer's DVD remote control on one of their BD players and vice-versa...

thank you copernicus....

My next update (1.1.4) is now on the way up. I'm rather embarrased to admit that, after getting ready to completely revamp the way I was storing and administering my lists of keyset and device data in order to support filtering them using the keyboard, I discovered that there was a simpler way to do it. Much simpler. Maybe only two dozen lines of code total. I really do need to just sit down and learn how GUIs really work someday... Anyway, both the list of keysets and the list of devices now accept a user-defined filter string.

I've also added a "default keyset" option to the Preferences panel. You can't really do much with the default keyset yet; the only value it has right now is that it can override the volume controls of whatever keyset you are currently using. This can be useful for people who want to, say, always manipulate the TV's volume even if they are currently controlling a DVD or VCR.

In keyset news, I've stumbled over another Daewoo TV config file, and added it as Daewoo TV Keyset 5. I've also fixed a bug in a Digital Stream receiver keyset, added a Grundig Freesat keyset, and set up a new keyset file for the Lexuz brand of receivers.

As always, please treat this update with care; as with anything in extras-devel, it may have bugs. Thanks!

Copernicus, any mention of Thomson AM1480 mini hi-fi, in You "usual sources" of keycodes? It doesn't seem to work with any of thomson keysets currently present in Pierogi.

Thanks in advance,

/Estel

Yeah, unfortunately, I only seem to be coming up with video devices for Thomson. I've only got a single config file for an audio device, and I'm not too sure about that one. My usual sources (mostly LIRC and hifi-remote.com) just don't have anything for me...

thx for genius remote, now i can lose hapily that 4 buttons remote. seems it's working better than the original remote.

Finally , a keyset search bar!
Found a few small bugs tho.

If you press Shift or Blue Shift the text in the search bar disappears.

This makes it hard to search for a mix of numbers and letters.

Also holding the key to get a number on the first digit doesn't work.

Open Pierogi, Select Keyset by Device, Hold 'e'.
The expected outcome is '3'

Finally is it supposed to be case sensitive?
It currently isn't but I was expecting it to be.

Cheers for the update.

Oh ... also just noticed the enter button clears the search bar too.
It would be nice if the exact match made the enter key select it.

Yes, this is my first attempt at a search bar (and I haven't really ever used them myself), so do expect problems!

Ack! I guess I need to add additional code to handle the shift keys; I had kinda expected Qt to already deal with the N900's keyboard, but apparently not (or perhaps they give the programmer more control over the input than I had guessed). I really do need to test these things out more...

You know, I'd never even heard of that before. Hmm. Maybe that's something else that Qt expects the programmer to handle manually? I see that it works as you say even on a terminal command line. That's a handy shortcut! Looks like I need to learn a bit more about how the N900's keyboard really works.

Yeah, I went ahead and specified case-insensitive on the Qt line editor widget. I kind of thought it'd be easier on the user to not have to worry about how keyset names were capitalized. (And I think the Application Manager works this way too, which is pretty much the only example I've currently got to compare against...)

And yeah, I'll fix the problem with the enter key too. Thanks!

Keep up the work man. It's going to be EPIC.