[NEWS] SlingFront 1.3

[Tom Speirs]

SlingFront Version 1.3 released.

• New edit SlingBoxes menu.
• Edit stream resolution and FPS.
• Added power control and control to show show stream information.
• Added setting to resume playing last SlingBox on startup.
• Fixes stopping SlingBox if no video signal.

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[oviano]

Many thanks for the update.

I've tested all those changes and they seem to work nicely.

One small thing - I think the info box should stay visible until you press the key again, i.e. make it into a toggle rather than fade out after a few seconds. This would be more useful IMO.

Anyway, I plan to stick this onto a spare HTPC I have lying around and get a feel for using it with a remote control, at which point I expect I'll have some more feedback.

I know I will want to able to map the red/green/blue/yellow buttons on the remote to the equivalent functions on the remote STB, so adding keyboard shortcuts for those would be tremendous.

I don't want to push my luck though - great work so far

[bsouth]

Congratulations on a great piece of software. It has got a lot better and in my humble opinion, it could soon be better than the official slingplayer, which is not very good.

One problem I have found is that there is no way I can see to change to a different video source in a slingbox pro. It comes up automatically on the previous input but no sign of the composite, s-video or component controls. If I go to the official slingplayer and change the input, when I start slingfront it then comes up as the new input.

Maybe there is a keyboard shortcut, but I cannot see it.

Well done anyway.

[Tom Speirs]

Congratulations on a great piece of software. It has got a lot better and in my humble opinion, it could soon be better than the official slingplayer, which is not very good.

One problem I have found is that there is no way I can see to change to a different video source in a slingbox pro. It comes up automatically on the previous input but no sign of the composite, s-video or component controls. If I go to the official slingplayer and change the input, when I start slingfront it then comes up as the new input.

Maybe there is a keyboard shortcut, but I cannot see it.

Well done anyway.

The key to switch input should be "I" but I have not tested it for a while. Let me know If that works. Cheers.

[Tom Speirs]

Many thanks for the update.

I've tested all those changes and they seem to work nicely.

One small thing - I think the info box should stay visible until you press the key again, i.e. make it into a toggle rather than fade out after a few seconds. This would be more useful IMO.

Anyway, I plan to stick this onto a spare HTPC I have lying around and get a feel for using it with a remote control, at which point I expect I'll have some more feedback.

I know I will want to able to map the red/green/blue/yellow buttons on the remote to the equivalent functions on the remote STB, so adding keyboard shortcuts for those would be tremendous.

I don't want to push my luck though - great work so far

Unfortunately the colored buttons are custom IR commands and I don't know what they are or know how to find out what they are. Maybe someone will shed some light.

[oviano]

Thanks - are you referring to the IR commands sent by an MCE remote or those issued to the remote STB by the blaster though?

I was planning to setup a Harmony remote so that its coloured buttons map to some keys of my choice and then map these keys inside SlingFront to the red/green/blue/yellow functions.

[woodland]

Unfortunately the colored buttons are custom IR commands and I don't know what they are or know how to find out what they are. Maybe someone will shed some light.

Color buttons are always the same:

Custom22:	RedCustom23:	GreenCustom24:	YellowCustom25:	BlueCustom26:       White

[Tom Speirs]

I am not sure they are the codes I need as they already map to some other codes such as pause and stop but I will experiment. Please try the attached (replace slingfront.exe). I have added support for the colored buttons but I am not sure I am sending them correctly.

SlingFront.zip

[woodland]

I've checked it one more time in WebSlingPlayer log. Looks like it will be Custom74 or something like this. Custom22 (Red) sends command from Custom10 button in this version.

00:01:15.364  000012D0  SPIMPL  : RC: Entered OnRemoteCommand: id.remote.red:7400:01:15.364  000012D0  SPIMPL  : RC: OnRemoteCommand: id.remote.red:7400:01:15.364  000012D0  SPIMPL  : OnStatusChange: 800:03:02.397  000012D0  SPIMPL  : RC: Entered OnRemoteCommand: id.remote.green:7500:03:02.397  000012D0  SPIMPL  : RC: OnRemoteCommand: id.remote.green:7500:03:04.924  000012D0  SPIMPL  : RC: Entered OnRemoteCommand: id.remote.yellow:7600:03:04.924  000012D0  SPIMPL  : RC: OnRemoteCommand: id.remote.yellow:7600:03:06.219  000012D0  SPIMPL  : RC: Entered OnRemoteCommand: id.remote.blue:7700:03:06.219  000012D0  SPIMPL  : RC: OnRemoteCommand: id.remote.blue:7700:03:07.529  000012D0  SPIMPL  : RC: Entered OnRemoteCommand: id.remote.white:7800:03:07.529  000012D0  SPIMPL  : RC: OnRemoteCommand: id.remote.white:78

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks. I have updated the install at spesoft.com. Please let me know if its working. I think it should be, at least for you.

[woodland]

Thank you. Now it's working correctly.

[oviano]

Yes the coloured buttons are working for me too now, thankyou.