nevo released the animated wheel that was shown at CES and CEDIA

im going to download it and make my the home page use this new feature

Where is this downloadable from?

Nevermind, just saw it in the members section on MyNevo.com if anyone else wants to know...

no instructions how this dam thing works or how to customize it. i have 7 buttons on my home page not 5 and now i have no sleep button picture. i don't think im going to use this for my homepage it slows everything down but it does look cool.

there is a short readme file included in the archive. thats about as far as the instruction go.

Where is this members section?

I am registered but I do not see it

Tks

Ok, I've figured it out.

Since this interface is a little on the complex side, it takes a little finesse. But have you guys ran it by itself on the remote, it's freak'n awesome; with the page transitions, etc.

(oh yeah, note to MUGEN, you mentioned that it make everything slow, well, that's because the first time you load a configuration into a NevoSL, make sure to reboot the unit and even when it boots up, you should navigate through all the pages so that they've loaded on the screen at least once, after that, you should see smooth page transitions, not just for this project, but anytime you load in a new config. The only reason why you haven't noticed this "slow down" is because this config uses animations and that's when you'll see the "slow down" the first time you run through the config)

First off, when you open the configuration up, your first instinct is to copy and paste the various elements from this config to your existings ones. That's the mistake I did and it won't work.

Since the NevoStudio software does not allow you to copy the home page, you can not actually copy this config over to your existing ones and hope that everything will remain intact.

You have to use this "wheel" config as a starting point for a new config.

Now, this may sound like a pain in the you-know-what, but it's not really that bad when you think of how easy it is to copy over devices from your old configs over to this config. (remember, just copy over a page of buttons and all the devices associated with that page(s) will copy over as well).

Once you've copied your device pages over into the "wheel" configuration, all you have to do it drag and drop the IR commands into the buttons that reside in the Home Page collection so that they will "Watch TV", "Watch DVD", etc.

Play close attention to only create these macros for main buttons that are in the center of each "Home Page" screens (there are five). Because when someone is looking at any of these five "Home Page"s, when they touch on one of the off center activity buttons, it will execute a page jump to highlight that activity button (which I thought was really cool, but you just have to make sure not to program IR commands on these off center activity buttons).

Be careful to not delete any of the page jumps that are assciate with these buttons (an some of the hard keys as well) because you could "break" the navigation flow by doing this (you can tell that they meticulously placed these page jumps throughout to create such a navigation flow).

It'll definitely take a little time to get use to altering this config, but when you think about it, it's a really sweet interface that I can give to my customer and that I didn't have to hire a graphic artist to do. :-) Plus you can totally edit the design elements since the download not only includes the configuratoin, but a bunch of additional buttons, backgrounds and symbols (although the symbols are the most important thing here, so make sure you put those files in the right place!).

I think it's pretty cool that Nevo has provided a little section of their website for cool new artwork (don't get me wrong, the file section for RemoteCentral is awesome too, but Nevo claims that they are actually having graphic artists crank this stuff out fresh). There are a few cool things in PatricksPostings (the section of mynevo.com to get this stuff), but this "wheel" interface is definitely the best thing there.

I hope this helps anyone out there. Give it a try!

I don't have access to the Dealer section of MyNevo. Could somebody please post the wheel code on the 'files' section of RemoteCentral? Thanks

i uploaded it, just have to wait now

the slow i meant was using this wheel vs a standard menu. i played with it for about a minute and deleted it.

this is the 1st i've heard of this and am quite eager to get home and check out just WTH ya'll are talkin about!!! LOL does this wheel scroll pages, replacing the side scroll wheel?

checked it out last night... i have to agree with MUGEN, seems gimicky. why would you want to scroll with a wheel when you can just press a button? i could see maybe if you had ALOT of activities that wouldnt fit onto one page? that would be an awful lot of activities mind you.

True, I wouldn't give this to all of my customers (and you are right, I usually don't have that many activities programmed for them as well), but:
a. It's very nice looking (certainly nicer than the standard graphics)
b. Since I don't always do activity based programming for my customers, this makes for a very nice "device" wheel as well. I'm not sure if you noticed, but you a ton of device pictures come with the download as well and it's pretty simple to swap them out.
c. I like how if you touch on another button other than the one is selected, it'll automatically scroll to that device (granted, this is just a bunch of page jumps, but at least they did the leg work and me).
I've already shown it to one customer and he thought it was pretty sweet (espeically because he's replacing a ProntoPro).
It's at least fun to play around with.

Just in case anyone wants to increase the number of 'buttons' in the downloadable 5 function animated wheel file... if you simply copy and paste a page within a page collection to create a new page, you will probably find the scrolling function does not work as desired, so I thought I'd post a tip to help others wondering how to do this. Within the 'Home', 'Home Transition Page' & 'Down States' page collections, rename each page from 'Home Page' to 'Home Page 1', 'Home Page 2', 'Home Page 3' etc etc. This makes it much easier to identify where each page jump is jumping to and makes it much easier to insert additional buttons in the scrolling wheel. You will then also easily notice that the 'page 1', 'page 2', 'page 3' pages within the 'Home Transition Page' are not actually used at all and can be deleted. When you have finished adding your new pages and you are happy the page jumps are all working flawlessly you can simply rename all the pages back to 'Home Page'. If anyone wants an example of an 11 'button' animated wheel file showing these 'altered' page names, send me an email and I'll be happy to send you the file.

i'd be interested in that file toolmad. I've sent you a pm.