Hey there folks, I've had my 9400 for a couple of years now and I would like a simple PS.

Currently I have the Power button set globally to jump to a power page. One of which contains every component's power states. Either an On or Off button or Power Toggle.

The main point of having the power button to go to the Power Page is so that the rest of the family would know what to do. Right now it would just go to the Power Page with out any IR being sent.

My thought is to continue to have that done when just pressed and let go. However, if it's pressed and held for 3 or more seconds. Then I would like for it to execute the same process as what the Off button is on my AVR. Which is just to send an IR code to my AVR, then jump to the Main Home page for the next time use.

Would this even be possible? I recall seeing someone who was able to make a PS for the jog dial. Where if the user made it one click at a time, that the IR sent was a song skip. But if 2 or more clicks were made with in a second, the IR would be a Fast Forward/Reverse type of IR. Although that was a couple of years ago that I saw it, and I wouldn't be able to find it again.

Thanks from a long time member.

KOT

Rob,

Here you go.

[Link: remotecentral.com]

To execute the action list of the same button containing the script from inside the onHold or onRelease (if you put the action in onHold, then you don't need it in onRelease nor do you need onRelease), use

this.executeActions();

or

this.scheduleActions();

Lyndel

Thank you for your reply Lyndel. I've read it over and all of it went over my head.

I have copied and pasted the following script...

// Count how many seconds the power button has been pressed

var counter = 0;

onHold = function()
{
counter++;
if (counter==2)
{
AllOff()
}
};
onHoldInterval = 1000;

onRelease = function()
{
CF.widget("TV_OFF","JUMPTO", "RESOURCES").executeActions();
};

But I am at a lost on what I would need to modify for my set up. I assumed that I would want to change RESOURCES to HOME PAGE. As the main screen(for next time use) is labeled Home Page. Not sure if capitalization matters either.

I am by no means a programmer, I am the one who repairs the hardware. lol

If it would help. The page that contains the power functions is labeled "Power Page". This is the page that it goes to currently when the button is pressed and released. Once there, if the user were to press the AVR off button, it will then go through a series of pages and end up at the "Home Page" for the next use.

KOT

If this is a PEP2 config, email it to me please. If PEP3, note that I can rework it to view in PEP2 and then send you back a PEP2 config which you can use as an example. May be this weekend before I can get to it but I will have a look.

Hey there Lyndel,
Just to let you know, I've sent you a PM with my email and such. Not sure if you have received it or not.

Thanks,
KOT

Sorry, was not checking PM here lately as had a hard disk crash and rebuilding.

Send me an email to my addy on profile.

Ok, sent an email to you.

KOT

Reply with working config sent.

Once appropriate ProntoScript names were assigned, the following script was put into the 'Power' button on the System Page.

var intervalms = 1000;
var counter = 0;
var threshold = 3; // 3 executions of 1000ms
var executeReleaseActions = true;

onHold=function()
{
System.print('Counter: ' + counter);
counter = counter + 1;
if (counter >= threshold)
{
// set boolean so that onRelease does not do Jump.
executeReleaseActions = false;
// clear holdInterval so only reach threshold 1 time
this.onHoldInterval = 0;
var w = CF.widget('AVR_OFF', 'POWER', 'HOME');
System.print('ThresholdMet w: ' + w);
if (w != null)
{
// instead of this try/catch block with executeActions, if using newer firmware, can also call
// w.scheduleActions
try
{
w.executeActions();
}
catch(e)
{
System.print('Err. e:' + e)
Diagnostics.log('Err. e:' + e);
}
}
}
}

onRelease = function ()
{
if (executeReleaseActions)
{
// instead of this try/catch block with executeActions, if using newer firmware, can also call
// this.scheduleActions
try
{
this.executeActions();
}
catch(e)
{
System.print('Err. e:' + e)
Diagnostics.log('Err. e:' + e);
}
}
}

onHoldInterval = intervalms;



Thank you, this works great.

I am assuming that if I wanted to change the hold down time, I just have to change the 3's in the following script line... var threshold = 3; // 3 executions of 1000ms

KOT

Give it a try and you will learn the answer.

Yes. There are actually 2 ways to affect the change. You could change the 3 to a 6 and then change the line that says onHoldInterval=500;

The threshold times the interval is the actual number of milliseconds that you want to trigger the 'threshold' so to speak. One the counter hits the threshold, then the held action will indeed trigger.

I have an other problem. I am trying to modify the above script to accept a second "power off" command. The reasoning is because when my AVR is on the internet/iPod source, it tends to go into it's own little world and not accept the 1st IR command. Thus when I press and hold the button, it never shuts off.

Here's what I've done.
I've gone into my AVR's activity panel and added "AVR_PWR_OFF" to the power off button.
After that, I've added 'AVR_PWR_OFF' to the following line...

var w = CF.widget('AVR_OFF', 'POWER', 'AVR_PWR_OFF', 'HOME');

No matter what order I put it, it just nulls the entire script. I can press and hold the button and nothing happens. I even tried to put a second "AVR_OFF" and removed the AVR_PWR_OFF. Still, nothing happens.

I can't see where there's a value that I have to change to make a 4th command. Thinking that was my problem, but I suppose not.

Thank you,
KOT

To understand what happened when you made your change, I recommend you have a look at the ProntoScript Dev Guide. CF.widget() function does not accept 4 parameters which is what you have supplied.

var w = CF.widget('AVR_OFF', 'POWER', 'AVR_PWR_OFF', 'HOME');

The way you have this coded, the script is looking for an activity with the ProntoScript Name 'AVR_PWR_OFF'.

Whenever I encounter something like this, I ask myself, can I solve the problem without script changes. In your case, I suspect the answer is a resounding 'Yes!!!'.

My recommendation is that everywhere you want to send discrete power off to AVR, send the IR code 2 times by simply adding another IR code to the button's action list. Won't hurt anything to send the discrete power off 2 times.

I actually discovered that the power off command is the only command that can be seen with only one "press".

Before you helped me out. I had selected buttons in the "Internet" activity set to transmit a dummy code that the AVR would wake up to. This included the hard power button, which only jumped to the power page. When I originally made the project, I didn't know the power off could be seen with out a wake up.

Now that I do know this. I just made that hard power button as a system wide so your PS can be used. It's working, so I'm happy.

I'll look for that guide and read some of it.

Thanks again,
KOT