Atlas PVR JP 1.2 (1025) extender beta testing comments

[vickyg2003]

Capn, you can't rush these things. Studying the remote, and debugging by a series of blinks can be very tedious. Heck look at me, I have two working extenders and I've spent more than a week trying to find a bug in the extender, only to have it be the RC5 protocol be the reason my fix didn't work. I'm packaging up the 8820 this evening, and then will make the fixes to the Atlas and try to get that done too.

[unclemiltie]

It's going slow.

The remote is very different so I have to "invent" a whole bunch of stuff to make it do things. I'm doing everything right now without actually transmitting stuff to make sure that the logic to get to the transmit spot is right. But there are things that I have to write from scratch, for example:

1: the macro's are played not from the register file but from RAM. That's ok, but then I had to deal with putting them in RAM in reverse order since I want to be able to nest macros. I've got this done to the point where it plays macros but doesn't transmit anything.

2: there was no HT mode on the remote so there aren't the built-in tables for the HT keysets. I'm going to have to put them in the extender, which of course is making it big. I'm going to reallocate the learn area for advance codes as the other extenders do, which leaves me about 480 bytes for the extender. IT should fit but adding tables of keys doesn't make things easier. ( I may put those in the top half of the private area)

3: This remote has a watchdog timer on it so taking long time to do things will cause the remote to restart spontaneously. I have to figure out where I can live with the watchdog and where I have to either reset it or disable it. The older remotes didn't have this.

Meanwhile, Ive got real work to do and am getting ready for a trip out of the country for a couple of weeks and a trip to CA for a couple of days.

My goal is to get SOMETHING out before I leave for Europe the first week of October.

[Capn Trips]

Capn, you can't rush these things.

Vicky,
Thanks. I believe that I am extremely sensitive to the fact that all of this great work is done on people's own time, shoehorned into available gaps in their real lives (and livelihoods!). That's why I tried to ask in a non-judgmental, polite way.

Bill,
Not to nag, but any progress/prognosis?

If I failed, I apologise. I was just cusious about a general prognosis ("imminent", "couple of weeks yet", "indefinite, too busy with other stuff") - as I too have other stuff going on (movers coming today ) amd am about to fall off the grid for a few weeks.

Bill,
Roger the complications and appreciate the update. I'm patient, but always curious. since I can hear and appreciate, but frustratingly only poorly "understand" all of these issues.

Thanks again.

[vickyg2003]

After a month I finally found the time to fix that bug in the HT settings where the keys were grouped incorrectly. I didn't do anything about changing which LED flashes. I kind of like it. It was very helpful in testing DSM's on Device keys.

I removed the old test file and the new info is in the Extender area, because I think this is bug free. I really have enjoyed testing this with the new ExtInstall. It made my testing so much easier! \


Thanks Captain and Evan for testing for me. This really helped.

[Evan_s]

Glad to help with the testing. I've already gotten pretty hooked on the extender. Now to figure out something else new and use extinstall to migrate to the new version of the extender =)

Bill,

I'd be happy to test the jp1.3 extender if you need tester. I'd love to move up to my backlit OCAP but I'm not sure I wanna be extenderless =)

[Capn Trips]

I'd be happy to test the jp1.3 extender if you need tester. I'd love to move up to my backlit OCAP but I'm not sure I wanna be extenderless =)

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