Channel Changing w/o "Enter"??

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I have been using using Sage 1.4 and now 2.12 beta.

I use an MX-700 remote w/ Girder along with a USB-UIRT for a blaster so Sage is able to to change the channels on the S.A. STB.

What I want to do is change channels w/o having to accept the change with an "Enter" key-push from the remote.

The STB is maximum three digit entries (999). If three digits are entered, I want it to execute immediately. If one or two digits are entered, a slight pause (time delay) will exist to allow for further digits but will than execute after the elapse of the delay.

This is actually the way the STB operates as far as channel changing is concerned.

This may be a better question for the Girder forum but thought maybe someone has already gone through the excercise here.

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[salsbst]

I almost never watch live tv so this hasn't gotten my attention.

It's definintely possible to do with with Girder using the lua TIME_Sleep function and state variables. But I haven't done it. Essentially, you want to start a timer when the first button is pressed. If no second button is received before the timer elapses, call the Enter command. If a 2nd button is pressed before the timer elapses, kill the first timer and start a new timer....yadah yadah yadah.

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Yep, I figured it would be something like that. I have yet to use any lua scripting in Girder and am therefore starting handicapped. Any sample(s) of what the script might look like would be helpful and I can take it from there.

This seems like a good little item to have in the Sage "tool box" for other users as well.

This is being driven by the wife who does not like to have to push the "enter" key which is down low in the corner on the MX-700 or the middle of the navigation joy stick.

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[salsbst]

Except that TIME_Sleep blocks Girder's thread while it's sleeping.... so it looks like TIMEROBJ is a better choice (I haven't use it before): http://www.girder.nl/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5511