Infrared repeat - How?

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Hi,

I have just begun setting up some test commands with the remote stuff.
Unfortunately I am not able to use a repeat while holding a button down. (e.g Volume up/down). Is there any way to do this, or is this a bug in the implementation?

To the beta testers of SquareConnect remote: Is this possible with the SQ remote?
If there is no way to accomplish this, the remote function is unusable for me which all in all would be a deal breaker for all IR automation.

Any ideas?
Thanks

Umtauscher

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… no one using IR at all?

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I’m using it but as of vera UI3 its broken for me completely and even under UI2 it wasnt very reliable as at some point vera stopped listening to edits i was making to my remote and would only ever present me with the old layout. The remote builder under UI3 works but i never get a functional remote anymore when going through findvera/mobile and even worse is that they also managed to break the IR functionality in the SC iPhone app too so i cant say if long presses like volume etc would work!

I have reported the Remote problem to MCV but there was never any follow up and i’m also waiting for the SC guys to fix this with MCV as they have raised a support ticket with MCV.

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Thanks, I feel there are far too many bugs under the hood.
Everything I try ends up the same way.
There are definately too many bugs to think about a new UI.

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I haven’t yet used IR in my Vera system, but it sounds like you would like the web UI to realize that you have kept the mouse (or you finger) down on a button for an extended period time and have it send the IR command again. Speaking as a software engineer, developing such as system would be possible, but would not be straight forward in a web UI. I would assume that if the developers took the time to implement something like that, they would have made either on by default or fairly obvious how to enable it. Since that doesn’t seem to be the case, I would guess it isn’t implemented.

In a native app such as the “soon” to be release SQ app, it would be much simpler for a developer to provide the functionality you are looking for. I am not in the SQ app beta, so I can’t speak as to whether it works like you want.