Need help learning NetRemote and Girder

[DuaneReynolds]

:cry: Downloaded and purchased Girder and netremote pro. Bought a usb-Uirt device. I have a pronto 940 which i have learned to program. I have built water treatment plants and programed the PLC in them. I have spent yesterday and today reading and searching the forums here and all the documentation i can find on these 2 programs and I guess I just have not cought on to the programing of t hese yet.
I am tring to start simple i just want to control my home theater equipment from my pc. Can some one give me a steop by step guide for setting up 1 or 2 remote buttons (say vol up and vol down ) from start to finish. I need to see it once to understand it. I dont understand after building my screens in tonto what i need to do in girder, is there a program to convert the ccf to a girder file, i have opened my ccf in netremote.

thanks in advance

[talm]

DuaneReynolds,

The best way that I found is to download the sample CCF and or GML combos and look how they are setup. Let me see if I can give you a step by step on how to setup a button to change your volume up.

In Tonto:

1) Create a button
2) In the properties tab, the name could be Vol + and choose the font and size that you want (Optional)
3) In the action tab, Click on the IR and for the IR Name, call it something like Amp.VolUp
4) for the data you should have this code 5001 0000 0000 0002 ffff 0000 0001 0000
5) Click Apply and save you ccf.

In Girder:

1) Make sure that the USB UIRT and the internet Event Server is loaded in the plugin area
2) Create a group call Amp or Denon 3085 for example
3) Create a new command and set it for the USB-UIRT. You can learn the command from the remote or you can copy the RC5 code from your pronto file and past it to the window
4) you can test the command to make sure that it is working by pressing F5
5) if all is well. Highlight the command and click Learn Event. Press your button that you created through NR and you will see an Internet Event Server showing under it...
6) Press the Vol Up button and your volume show go up.

I hope that will get you started.

Tal

[DuaneReynolds]

Thanks for the reply. when i make and name the buttons and commands in netremote, girder, and tonto do they have to be name identically? for example denon.vol.up in girder but in tonto that command may be denon .vol.+

i think i get it now i need to build the remote in both tonto and girder

TA

[Promixis]

The eventstrings must match between girder and netremote. The names of the buttons do not.

[DuaneReynolds]

3) In the action tab, Click on the IR and for the IR Name, call it something like Amp.VolUp
4) for the data you should have this code 5001 0000 0000 0002 ffff 0000 0001 0000




where did this ir code /data come from? do i learn the remote code in tonto and girder with a button push of existing remote. Is this how I get the event strings to match by programing / le
arning the same ir code to the vol.up in tonto and girder

[Jlee]

I'll try and explain. Sorry if I repeat anything that's already been said.

You learn the IR code in Girder. Once you've installed the USB-UIRT plug in just create a command in Girder and look on the far right tab where you'll find the USB-UIRT plug in and it should be obvious how to learn the code from there. Next you assign an Internet Event Server event to it called e.g. Amp.VolUp. Then you can test this by highlighting the command and pressing F5.

So that's the Girder bit done. All that's left is to set up NR so that it triggers the event in Girder. The button in NR will have an IR action with IR code of 5001 0000 0000 0002 ffff 0000 0001 0000. That's just a dummy code that tells NR that the button is to trigger a Girder event. Use an IR name of e.g. Amp.VolUp to match the Internet Event Server event name you used in Girder.

You can find more of those dummy codes in the NR Pro guide. The guide comes with the download of the latest version of NR Pro available from the pre-release forum.

Check out my CCF/GML combo if you want a real example. Follow the link in my sig to get it.

[DuaneReynolds]

Thanks Jlee I have looked at your files and website Helped alot