Can no longer open RM

drb · Post by **drb** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:51 pm

Can no longer open RM, I have the latest verson and it worked for about five days. I tried all different ways to open and none of them gets a responce. I think it a problem with the java app? Here is the log from rmaster.err;

Preferred remote name RS 15-1994 6-in-1 Smart
Preferred remote name RS 15-1994 Extender 2 with Learned
Preferred remote name RS 15-1994 Extender 3
Preferred remote name RS 15-1994 Extender 3 with Selective Macro
Preferred remote name RS 15-1994 Extender 4
Preferred remote name RS 15-1994 Extender 5
Preferred remote name URC-7800 Cinema
Preferred remote name URC-7800 Extender
Preferred remote name URC-8800 Producer 8
Preferred remote name URC-8800 Producer 8 with Extender V2
Seraching for remote with name RS 15-1994 6-in-1 Smart
Caught exception in RemoteMaster.main()!
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
at com.hifiremote.jp1.RemoteManager.findRemoteByName(RemoteManager.java:119)
at com.hifiremote.jp1.Preferences.load(Preferences.java:100)
at com.hifiremote.jp1.KeyMapMaster.<init>(KeyMapMaster.java:91)
at com.hifiremote.jp1.RemoteMaster.main(RemoteMaster.java:12)
Thanks for any help.

DRB

gfb107 · Post by **gfb107** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:17 pm

Which version of RM?

Try renaming RemoteMaster.properties to something else.

drb · Post by **drb** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:32 pm

1.15 I believe. I renamed the file to RemoteMaster1.properties. Now it tries to open, but can't locate RDF file and even when I point to the files I still get message saying it can't find RDF files.

Another wierd thing is now files I saved as IR files from IR 6 are now open by IR203.

DRB

gfb107 · Post by **gfb107** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:05 pm

I've just released a fix for your RM startup problems. See RemoteMaster v1.17 now available!.

I don't have a clue what's going on with your .IR files.

drb · Post by **drb** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:09 am

Thanks, that should take care of the problem. The last time I used RM I did set to open preffred RDf's.

DRB

nexstar · Post by **nexstar** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:31 pm

I seem to be having a similar problem. I downloaded the folowing jre file today and installed it:

jre-1_5_0_01-windows-i586-p.exe

When I try to run RM v117 it will ask me where the rdf files are but then it quits. The following is final part of the error log:

Geenrating deviceImporter for protocol TiVo (Advanced)
DevParm is Main Device
DevParm is Sub Device
DevParm is Unit Code
Geenrating deviceImporter for protocol TiVo (Official)
DevParm is Main Device
DevParm is Sub Device
DevParm is Unit Code
Geenrating deviceImporter for protocol TiVo (Official 2-byte)
DevParm is Main Device
DevParm is Sub Device
DevParm is Unit Code
Geenrating deviceImporter for protocol X10
Geenrating deviceImporter for protocol Zenith
DevParm is Device (Signal Length)
DevParm is Long RECORD
DevParm is Sub-Device (Style)
Geenrating deviceImporter for protocol null
Caught exception in RemoteMaster.main()!
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
at java.lang.String.substring(Unknown Source)
at com.hifiremote.jp1.Remote.<init>(Remote.java:28)
at com.hifiremote.jp1.RemoteManager.loadRemotes(RemoteManager.java:48)
at com.hifiremote.jp1.KeyMapMaster.<init>(KeyMapMaster.java:179)
at com.hifiremote.jp1.RemoteMaster.main(RemoteMaster.java:12)

I am running Windows XP Pro.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

gfb107 · Post by **gfb107** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:52 pm

If it is the same problem, the fix is in version v1.18

nexstar · Post by **nexstar** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:05 pm

gfb107 wrote:If it is the same problem, the fix is in version v1.18

Thanks for the quick response. I've just tried v1.18 but it still generates the same error here. I've just noticed the smilies in my error report above. You probably realised that they are "8" with a ")" after it!

gfb107 · Post by **gfb107** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:56 pm

Looks like you've got a badly named file in the rdf directory. The file names must be in the format signature (remote name).rdf
It looks like you've got one that doesn't have the parens.

nexstar · Post by **nexstar** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:10 pm

Many thanks, my brain was starting to hurt

There were two rdf files which I had previously downloaded from the jp1 Yahoo Groups files area for my Topline 8. They are named correctly on the site but the parentheses were stripped out of the name on downloading here.

Now I've got it going (well you got it going, really) I just have to see if I can drive it!

Thanks again.