How do I know what keypad button is assigned?

[Ron]

Welcome to Girder Jay,

F5 has nothing to do with the event. F5 is "test command" ( see the command menu in Girder ) This bypasses the eventmatching routines and triggers the currently selected command to see if it does what you want.

Instead of F5 you can always press the button on the remote ( or the keyboard ) that you 'learned' to the command.

Does this make it clear ?

[Oz]

Hah! Jay, I caught you.

I mentioned this on AVS too, but in case you read this one first... the only way I was able to get the keyboard to work, was to go to file>settings then the plugins tab. Scroll down to Keyboard and check the box. Apply and say okay.

Now hit F9 twice to stop and restart. Now you should be able to learn keyboard commands as your 'Learn Event'.

Oz

[Jay Wilson]

I am an absolute novice at this. I am a memeber on AVSForum, and decided to give Girder a go based on recommendations over there. I've downloaded, installed, printed all the online help, the FAQs, and searched through here as a non-member. I can't get past page 3 of the online help. I know, pretty sad. I am an AMX certified programmer, and I know I can do this, I just need a little lesson. I am trying to control/automate my home theater, and starting very basic with just keyboard commands. Then I will move to an IR remote, the onto a GUI interface and then possibly a tablet type remote. We'll have to see how it goes.

I get stuck really early on. On page 1 & 2 of the online help, (yes, I am going through it a step at a time to learn about the program) it talks about creating your first command and learning the event. This I understand, learning from an IR remote. But on page 3, it says use "f5" to test. How does the program decide it is f5? I looked through all the tabs and nowhere do I see f5. It's ok that it's f5, but where do I get this info from? What about the next command I have? What will it be assigned?

I know this will be silly to you, but I can't get past this mental roadblock of why/where this came from.

Thanks for answering!

[Jay Wilson]

Duh!

I guess I didn't read far enough in the manual. I got that far and was stumped.

Thanks for the quick response. I'm sure there will be more questions, but at least I can get past page 3 now :D