Snapstream Firefly Response Time

[daveatwinterpegca]

Hi all!

I went out and purchased a snapstream firefly the other week for my HTPC. I was deathly afraid of using girder for the longest time, and was using uICE for my needs - but have since spent the mandatory 2 day learning curve to figure out girder and now I'm just loving it!

I have one minor issue though. I have to hit my buttons on the remote (most of the times) twice for the commands to execute. This gets a bit frustrating sometimes, and almost seems like the receiver has to wake up first and then carry on. Is there any way that we could modify the driver to stay on all the time, and as well to increase the time it registers a "repeat" condition?

It also could be my gml (?)

Thanks;
Dave

[Promixis]

Hi Dave,

I am from the Peg as well :)

The FireFly should be very fast. I have one and it works without any problems.

What Girder version?

What OS?

Any other programs running?

[daveatwinterpegca]

I'm using 3.31c - which I'm assuming is the latest. I"m using the x10net drivers from the x10 ftp site that are spoken of in the firefly driver.

Running Windows XP SP2 RC2 - with nothing really special running in the background, basically using it to control mytheatre, zoomplayer, and other miscellany..

[Promixis]

Well, you are the first person I know of running girder on sp2. We are unsure how it will interact with girder.

I would disable all plugins but the firefly and press a few buttons watching girder's task bar to see if them are coming normally.

[daveatwinterpegca]

OK - Sorry for the delay.

I disabled all the plugins I was using with the exception of Firefly

(If you wish: I'm using SendMessage, TaskSwitch, TaskCreate, VolOSD, and XPOSD).

It seems that when I press the right arrow button on the remote, I have to press the left button twice before it registers. Just spent about 5 minutes trying all the keys and it is exhibiting the same behaviour...

Any ideas?

[Promixis]

Do you have access to an XP machine without SP2 installed?

And is it working normally with FF software?

[daveatwinterpegca]

Will take the Firefly with me tommorrow and try it out on a variety of machines. I as well just cleared my slate with a blank script - and still is exhibiting these features just to make sure it wasn't the GML. Will post again tommorrow during the day..

(addendum)
I don't have the FF software on hand right now, will have to dig it up again tommorrow at work. I think the only difference in the software I used would be the x10 drivers perhaps.

[Promixis]

Ok, keep me posted.

[daveatwinterpegca]

Its working now!

I did either two things to make it work - and I'm going to lean towards the former.

I looked on the Firefly disc, and they supplied a folder named girder. 3.3.1c - as well as another firefly plugin (with a readme that sternly told us that the last one didnt work properly)

I also uninstalled my x10 drivers and downloaded some snapstream provided drivers from their website.

After that I was in sweet 1 button pressing mode - with my gml file performing wonders. Now I have to figure out a nice looking OSD for my TV application and I'm all set.

Thanks for your willingness to help - and now that this works, time to rummage up some coin and register this bad boy!

[Promixis]

Glad its working. Wish we knew exactly what it was. Would you please report how Girder is working on SP2 in new thread. None of us working on Girder have taken the step .. :D