JP1 Remotes

mathdon · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 7:45 am Post subject: RMIR v3.2 Major new release!

RMIR v3.2.0 is now available. It is a major new release that adds the ability to edit built-in setup codes, together with many other additions and improvements. It is the first official release since v3.1.5. There have been development builds 6 through 15 of RMIR v3.1 in beween, which is an indication of how much new development has taken place. More details of the new features and other improvements are given in the post that follow this.

RMIR is a Java program which requires Java 8 or later. The supported platforms are 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, together with experimental support for RaspberryPi. To install it, first unzip the installation package RMIR.v3.2.0-bin.zip to a new folder that is not read-only. For a Windows OS this means, in particular, that it should not be unzipped into a subfolder of the Program Files folder.

The main program is the file RemoteMaster.jar which contains three applications, RMIR itself together with the subsidiary apps RMDU (sometimes known for historical reasons simply as RM) and RMPB. These are tools of the JP1 project, the main one being RMIR. See the article JP1 - Just How Easy Is It? for information about this project and how to use it.

All three apps can be opened from a command line when the current folder is the installation folder. Use the command line

mathdon · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 7:46 am Post subject:

Here are some details of the new features in RMIR v3.2.0.

1. The Edit Device button on the General panel of RMIR is now enabled for built-in setups as well as device upgrades. To edit a built-in setup, it must first be converted to a Device Upgrade. On pressing this edit button with a built-in device selected, it will first ask if you want to make this conversion. If you reply Yes and there are key moves that modify the built-in setup, it will say how many there are and ask if you want them incorporated into the upgrade. Finally it will offer to open the new upgrade for editing.

2. You can also create device upgrades for other built-in setups than those used in the Device Buttons table of the RMIR General panel. Both RMIR and RMDU have a new button Import built-in setup. For RMIR this is on the button bar at the bottom of the Devices tab, for RMDU it is on the header of the opening panel. Pressing this button opens a Code Selector. If you select a Device Type and Device Code and press the Import button, the setup is imported into the Device Upgrade Editor (which in the case of RMDU is the opening panel). There are some remotes whose built-in setups cannot be imported, but for these the Import button is disabled.

3. The list of remotes in RMDU now displays both the name and signature of each remote and you can sort the list by either name or signature. The signature and processor of the selected remote are now shown on the Output tab, and the Advanced menu has a new item View/Edit RDF. This sorting ability is now present in the Import Raw Upgrade facility accessed in RMIR with Devices > New > Import Raw and in RMDU with Import Raw Upgrade on the Advanced menu.

4. There is a new column, Device Codes, on the Devices tab of RMIR. This is to assist users who use this tab to search a list of upgrades by device type and device code rather than for a specific setup code.

5. There are additions and corrections to the list of supported remotes and to the support file protocols.ini, and the version of IrpTransmogrifier that is included has been updated to v1.2.14. The documentation file RDF4Spec_Addendum has been updated to revision 26.
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mdavej · Expert Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 4623

Thank you Graham, Rob, Dave and Barf for all your hard work on this one (hope I didn't leave anyone out). Fantastic!!

Barf · Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:01 am Post subject:

The learned file-to-update feature is great. The "Open documentation" opens the (IrpTransmogrifier) documentation, but unfortunately the hyperlinks therein are not functional. Although possibly not that important, hyperlinks that look like hyperlinks, and that work in another context (for example in a browser) are evil Twisted Evil

So I decided to fix it. The patch is against SVN revision 2120. I will be happy to check in to SVN, if desired.

I am not completely convince that the way to invoke "the browser" is the best one -- I refactored the class JP1Frame and made the browse functions static. There may be a better way to do it, or another way that fits RMIR better.

mathdon · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 11:30 am Post subject:

Barf · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:10 pm Post subject:

OK. Checked in.

I have been fumbling with that code previously; the code for using xdg-open if it is existing and working is written by me.

NOAMattD · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 24

Just got a new AVR = time to hit up the forum to check for the latest updates.

Thanks as always for continuing to support this community; I'm sure there are many people like me who poke their heads in once in a blue moon but benefit every day from the great work you all do!

TiceRex · Joined: 28 Jun 2012 Posts: 80

The import built-in setup is the most welcomed feature by me.

In case you have a nearly perfect built-in setup, and wanted to change just a few bits, it is the perfect tool.

THANK YOU!