ziocan Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 It's just me, or does anybody feel that the very cool and sleek Neeo remote is missing a pause hard button? How do you guys implement pause when playing a movie from a media player with the Neeo? Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 On my media players the circle button in the middle works for pause. RyanE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4toys Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 most streaming service have the transport controls built into the app themselves. so using the navigation arrows ( up, down, left, right) oh and select (ok, enter, etc) to select the transport controls in the apps is the idea.. On the neeo standard templates are used for devices and from what I understand you cant add button or it is above my experience to do so edit: I do see roku has full navigation on the neeo.. IMO by far the easiest streaming device to use with c4... I was blown away when I added a new channel to my device and the mini app auto populated on the neeo RyanE and -defunct- 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziocan Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 19 minutes ago, ILoveC4 said: On my media players the circle button in the middle works for pause. You talking about the Neeo and mean the OK button? Yes of course it all depends on the driver, yours maps OK button pressed while playing as pause. But in any case it's a programmatic thing (what the developer decides to map to the OK button in driver). I wish a dedicated pause button was available, that would work with any media player or product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziocan Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 17 minutes ago, c4toys said: most streaming service have the transport controls built into the app themselves. so using the navigation arrows ( up, down, left, right) oh and select (ok, enter, etc) to select the transport controls in the apps is the idea.. On the neeo standard templates are used for devices and from what I understand you cant add button or it is above my experience to do so edit: I do see roku has full navigation on the neeo.. IMO by far the easiest streaming device to use with c4... I was blown away when I added a new channel to my device and the mini app auto populated on the neeo The navigation is one thing, I am talking about the nostalgy of a hard "pause" button on the Neeo. Using the screen navigator is impractical while watching a movie.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 I completely agree. I wish it had more hard buttons. You’ll quickly find you get used to where the often used “digital” buttons are though. At least I have. Most my remotes are still SR-250’s, but as they die I’ll be replacing them with NEEO. My biggest fear is my kids dropping and breaking them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziocan Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 4 minutes ago, ILoveC4 said: I completely agree. I wish it had more hard buttons. You’ll quickly find you get used to where the often used “digital” buttons are though. At least I have. For special functions I can look for them on the screen but the pause button is one of those buttons you want/need to hit without having to look. At least I feel it should be like that. Wanted to remap the "mute" that I never use, but there is no way to avoid sending the mute command together with your programmed action Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 For special functions I can look for them on the screen but the pause button is one of those buttons you want/need to hit without having to look. At least I feel it should be like that. Wanted to remap the "mute" that I never use, but there is no way to avoid sending the mute command together with your programmed actionDo you care if it’s muted while paused? Mute mutes and pauses, then when pressed again unmutes and plays. Seems like a good solution. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziocan Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 4 minutes ago, ILoveC4 said: Do you care if it’s muted while paused? Mute mutes and pauses, then when pressed again unmutes and plays. Seems like a good solution. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Apart from aestethic issues which I could live with, when I tried the media player I was using was sometimes going out of sync with the muting state (i.e. sometimes toggling mute was received but pause was not, then toggling mute again woud unmute but also pause the unpaused movie and only fix would be stop the movie and resume) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-defunct- Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Hmmm, I honestly didn't notice much. I use a Roku and the 'ok' circle button works for pausing everything I've played on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Most devices use the OK button (as already mentioned) for Pause. My DSTV (satellite TV box) does not play nicely with the hard buttons and I don’t like the default controls that appear on the screen, so I have programmed a HOME command when this device is selected and I have set up 2 screens of my own custom experience buttons for this. The first screen includes stop, pause / play, forward and rewind in a layout that I like and find easy to use. I find that I can use these without looking at the screen and thus it works perfectly for me. My only gripe in this regard is that I am limited to 6 experience buttons per screen (and I can only use the bottom half of the screen). I’d much rather have an option for 9 or 12 buttons (I.e. 3 or 4 rows of 3 as an option instead of the standard 2 rows and a big picture of the device). This plus backlighting (if C4 figures out how to do that with a software upgrade then I’ll be super impressed ) are my only 2 suggestions to improve the Neeo. I’d also still like security system control but not too serious as I have added experience buttons that do what I want... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Strangely, my view on Neeo has changed over time... originally I wanted more hard buttons... now, I could accept less hard buttons and would love more screen space... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziocan Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 just curious, what do you use your screen space for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-defunct- Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 I use it for starting favorites or devices. Pretty much nothing after that except for confirming room off and looking at the volume level. Honestly the volume feedback is one of the major reasons my SR260 is staying on its dock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziocan Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 I have volume feedback on screen, and the SR260 is better at volume setting actually. Still evaluating. I miss the pause button, I still have DVD's in my system (yes I'm an old dog) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 3 hours ago, Dunamivora said: Pretty much nothing after that except for confirming room off and looking at the volume level. Honestly the volume feedback is one of the major reasons my SR260 is staying on its dock. I personally turn off confirm room off, so it works like the SR260... RyanE -defunct- 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 1 hour ago, ziocan said: ... and the SR260 is better at volume setting actually ... Curious, in what way is the SR260 better at setting volume? It should work fairly similarly to the SR260 in terms of sending VOL-type commands. RyanE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Curious, in what way is the SR260 better at setting volume? It should work fairly similarly to the SR260 in terms of sending VOL-type commands. RyanEI do miss the ability to use the number keys to set the light level. I did that in bed a lot. The NEEO isn’t terrible, but I do like that aspect of the SR remotes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 6 minutes ago, ILoveC4 said: I do miss the ability to use the number keys to set the light level. I did that in bed a lot. The NEEO isn’t terrible, but I do like that aspect of the SR remotes. Yeah, I use that functionality on the SR250/60 as well, but I also like the sliders, because I can read them without my glasses on (which I can't easily do with the SR's)... So on the SR's, easy to adjust a light, hard to tell which one I'm adjusting. RyanE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziocan Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 7 hours ago, RyanE said: Curious, in what way is the SR260 better at setting volume? It should work fairly similarly to the SR260 in terms of sending VOL-type commands. RyanE SR260 is more responsive than Neeo in my system, dunno why. I know Neeo is supposed to be faster (wifi vs zigbee) but for this specific task it isn't. Also if I keep vol up/down pressed, Neeo takes a long time for a up or down level step, while the SR260 is way faster. Dunno if this is because Neeo needs to update the screen for visual feedback, or if there are other reasons. Ideas? Thanks Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amblinfan Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Yeah I occasionally have issues where I have to hit navigation arrows multiple times to get them to move on Apple TV IP driver. Would like backlighting that’s for sure. I say another row of hard keys below direction pad like the one above it for DVR/GUIDE/PLAY/PAUSE and I’d be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-defunct- Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 On 4/28/2020 at 5:10 PM, RyanE said: I personally turn off confirm room off, so it works like the SR260... RyanE I figured I'd try this out. It's way better! I didn't realize how inconvenient it was to hit off, then slide my hand up to confirm. Now it's just pick up and done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 4 hours ago, Dunamivora said: I figured I'd try this out. It's way better! I didn't realize how inconvenient it was to hit off, then slide my hand up to confirm. Now it's just pick up and done. Just flipped the setting this morning. I’m looking forward to it as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinom Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 I keep the confirmation on for my theater setup that includes a JVC projector. This prevents accidentally shutting off the projector then having to wait 2 minutes for cool down and another 1 to warm up. Also less stress on the lamp. But I agree for a TV based system, probably better to turn off the confirmation. RyanE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 I keep the confirmation on for my theater setup that includes a JVC projector. This prevents accidentally shutting off the projector then having to wait 2 minutes for cool down and another 1 to warm up. Also less stress on the lamp. But I agree for a TV based system, probably better to turn off the confirmation. I still use an SR250 in the theater...Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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