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Matt M · Joined: 07 Jul 2018 Posts: 18

I'm having an issue with my ARRX15G Xsight remote not storing the activities macros. If I add a macro to an activity, upload to the remote, and then download to the remote, the activity macro is gone. I am using Linux Mint, and I tried RMIR versions, 2.10.9 and 2.12.1 and it's not working with either version.

mdavej · Expert Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 4583

Post the RMIR file you're uploading.

Matt M · Joined: 07 Jul 2018 Posts: 18

Here you go. TIA for taking the time to look at it.

http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload.php?action=file&file_id=26202

Matt M · Joined: 07 Jul 2018 Posts: 18

mdavej · Expert Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 4583

Your files are smaller than they should be. I think something is interrupting the download or there is some corruption around 27BFF.

Try to upload/download this file and see if on the Raw Data tab it goes all the way to 393F0 if you scroll all the way down to the end.

http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload.php?action=file&file_id=13513

The Robman · Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 11:33 am Post subject:

Dave, I just extended his file to match the length of the file that you posted, using Notepad, but when I try loading that into RMIR, RMIR truncates it to the 27BF0 length.

http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload.php?action=file&file_id=26245
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mdavej · Expert Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 4583

Graham may have to take a look at this one. I'm not sure what's going on.

Matt M · Joined: 07 Jul 2018 Posts: 18

mdavej · Expert Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 4583

In case we don't figure it out what's going on with your file, just take my file and modify it to suit. Delete the activities and macros before you delete any devices.

Matt M · Joined: 07 Jul 2018 Posts: 18

mdavej · Expert Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 4583

Sounds good. Sometimes if you don't do things in a certain order, you end up with orphan functions and weird things can happen. RMIR is fantastic, but it's not quite robust enough to protect us from every possible editing scenario. This sequence isn't documented anywhere, but I've just learned a few things to avoid over the years.

mathdon · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 8:52 am Post subject:

Matt M · Joined: 07 Jul 2018 Posts: 18

This morning I loaded up one of my backup files, and added a new device (Sony TV). I then changed Macros, Activity Macros, and Group Assignments from the old Samsung TV to the new Sony TV, and everything works perfectly.

I can only assume that previously I deleted the Samsung TV device before I removed all references to it in my RMIR file.

Thanks to mdavej for pointing me in the right direction, and to The Robman and mathdon for taking the time to reply to my post. I'm very happy to have my remotes working properly again.

mathdon · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 1:02 pm Post subject:

I'm glad all is now well. I have done a bit more investigating, as I wanted to understand what was happening. As mdavej indicated, somehow the activity macros had got orphaned so the setup you were updating was corrupt.

I mentioned in my previous post that the data in the remote is stored as a set of files. There is a macro file, an activity file and so on. There is an activity macro for every activity, even if it is empty. When the data is stored into the files, the activity macro is stored in the macro file with a reference to it stored in the activity file. Somehow the reference was there but the macro was not. You could update the macro in RMIR but it never got stored in the macro file. I found that if I created a new activity, I could set an activity macro that got stored, but if I updated the macros of your existing activities then they were not stored. So it would have been possible to recover, even if you did not have an older backup, by deleting the activities in RMIR and creating new ones in their place. How the corruption occurred in the first place, though, must remain unknown.
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rsbrux · Joined: 25 Dec 2015 Posts: 94

This is a similar problem to the one described above. I tried to add a new activity to a previously working configuration. The new activity's macro doesn't work, and when I download the configuration from the remote, the macro is blank. In the new Xsight File Data tab, the new activity's macro shows "macroMap is null for macroref". The RMIR file can be found here in the File Section Diagnosis Area.