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Hi, I confirm this problem, I have exactly the same. Thank you for the advice of assigning other keys to the Power etc., that helped me to have a working setup. Keep up the good work Olivier. Best regards, Laurent

For those who may be interested, here is a modified .exe and sources based on the package posted by oviano here. This modification includes ALL STB keys supported by the SlingBox (including PIP, Customs, etc). I made this because my STB uses the "Clear = CByte(37)" to quit a menu and it was not possible to map it in the original SlingFront application. I am now turning toward Tom or Oviano with those 2 suggestions : - Allow custom names for keys to better describe those in the edit keyboard menu. I can help with writing the descriptions but cannot code such function. - Support alt/ctrl/shift combinations for key shortcuts in the keyboard menu. I also take the opportunity to report a strange behaviour of my Slingbox Pro-HD with SlingFront: when I start the stream in HD quality, everything works fine: my HTPC (Intel Atom 1,6Ghz / Nvidia ION) can cope with the high resolution with no lag. But as soon as I press a key (or use the onscreen remote), the stream becomes very laggy on video and audio. Some troubleshooting : - if I use the *old* SlingPlayer application for Windows, I have the same problem BUT if I use watch.slingbox.com it works fine with no lags after pressing keys. - if I stream from my Slingbox Solo (no HD), it works fine with no lags after pressing keys. - if I run SlingFront on my Core i5 laptop, I don't face this problem at all. It looks like sending keys during an HD stream suddenly increase the load of my HTPC which then fails to play the audio and video correctly. Is there anything you can do since watch.slingbox.com works fine on the very same hardware ? Keep up the good work ! SlingFront with all keys.zip

Hi Jethros, I am also using an harmony remote but my IR sensor is the FLIRC (www.flirc.tv). It's a very powerfull dongle which let's you bind any IR command to a keyboard key (or combos like ctrl+x). This works very well and even let me wake the HTPC from sleep. You are probably correct with skip/last_chan. For the exit/live TV it could be Live or Exit (the actual ExitKey is mapped to Cancel = 36) Thanks for your help. In fact, I started with your source code, checked for your changes, and added all the other IR codes the same way that you did. If you have time to look at the .zip files that I attached to my last post, you will see what I mean :-) My problem now, is that there are so many commands that it's difficult to map all those to real keyboard keys. This is were using shift/ctrl/alt would become very useful but I don't know how to do that. Additionally, with so many commands, it would be easier if we could rename those to a proper name. Maybe those are suggestions for Tom ^^

For info, I looked into the code and I think that previous and skip are used to go forward or backward into the video buffer. To cycle the slingboxes, there is only the NextSlingBox command. Here are the the Keyboard.vb, frmmain.vb and slingboxrelated.vb files that I edited to include ALL IR key codes (including pips, customs, etc). I also restructured the keys order to match the order of this list (in all 3 files). Now it would be great to modify the "edit keyboard" menu to support ctrl/alt/shift combos and use custom names for the drop down menu (in order to use more explicit descriptions for the keys, like "SlingFront Main Menu" instead of "MainMenu"). This is out of my capabilities at the moment since I am discovering Visual Basic, if someone is motivated to help please let me know I will try to learn a bit more in the upcoming weeks. Note: I did not try to compile the code since I don't have Visual Studio here, I ll try when I ll be back home next week. At the moment most of my changes are commented SlingFront.zip

Thank you Tom, I will do some testing on my own with the source code and will let you know about the result. Keep up the good work !

I had a look at the source files that you posted above, it looks from slingboxrelated.vb that the command "ExitKey" triggers the action code 36 (= "Cancel" in your post with all codes). I would like to try using the code 37 (= "Exit" in your post with all codes) to see if it works better for my STB. I am not familiar with Visual Studio but I will have a look when I ll be back at home on next Wednesday. In the meantime, if you have a few minutes to spare on compiling, that would be greatly appreciated PS: if you want to test some code on my slingbox I can give you access, just let me know. Best regards, Laurent

Thanks for your answer oviano. I have 2 slingboxes and the "Previous" key does not switch back to the previous one. In my case, it does nothing. To perform the action called "Back" on my STB (to navigate one step back in menu), I tried the Exitkey with no success, nothing happens when I trigger this. Does that key work with your STB ? My STB has 2 different buttons : one for "Back" (one step back in menu) and "Exit" (exit all menu and go back to TV). From your post here it looks like Sling has builtin support for 2 different keys (Cancel = 36 , Exit = 37), but I can't map any of those correctly in SlingFront. As written in my previous post, I tried to assign "Previous", "ExitKey", "Quit" and "Main menu" with no success. Suggestion for the dev: for clarification, it may be interesting to use the same standard button names from Sling (as listed in your post) in SlingFront keyboard config. The internal functions from SlingFront like the actual "Quit" to go to SlingFront menu should be clearly marked like "SlingFront - Quit" or "SlingFront - Next Slingbox". Keep up the good work !

Hi guys, I installed SlingFront 1.46 a a few days ago on my new Windows HTPC, and I have some troubles with those things : - The "Previous" key, which is supposed to be Cancel = 36 I guess, does not work whatver I map it to. - The "Quit" key, which is supposed to be Exit = 37 I guess, brings me to the Slingfront main menu whatever I map it to. - The "Main Menu" key, which I suppose is the SlingFront main menu, is always mapped to ESCAPE (ie. if I map it to something like F12 and map an other key to the ESCAPE button, the SlingFront main menu will still appear, whatever I press ESCAPE or F12). - I added the SlingFront XBMC plugin as a shortcut on the main XBMC screen (below the "Video" menu),s when I start it XBMC opens a frame as if it was a folder with files (but will still starts SlingFront after a few seconds). This is not a big deal but it would be much better if it just starts SlingFront without opening this frame (which is still displayed when leaving slingfront and coming back to XBMC). Note that I am running the official XBMC 12.2. Finaly I saw a post on this forum stating that a previous update of SlingFront had an option to disable the fade effect when entering the main menu, but I could not find this option in the last version. Has it been pulled from the release ? Thank you very much for your help. Best regards, Laurent

no problem, thanks for your reply

Dear tspeirs, ​ ​I read about your software on xmbc website, and I was wondering if it could be possible to port your project for Android xbmc users ? ​ ​Best regards, ​Laurent