Has anyone fixed the "slow remote" issue?

[gEd]

Are people here saying the problem is gbpvr vs npvr on the same OS?

Only wodger said he is having a problem since moving to win7 AND npvr so from that, it not clear if everyone is discussing a problem with ir.exe on win7 or a change in behaviour between how ir.exe works with gbpvr vs npvr.

(I long ago dumped my 45-button remote, I was just chiming in)

If the later, perhaps I guess ir.exe must be having some kind of problem attaching to the npvr window in order to send the key stroke.

Sub: Does npvr have different application/window properties compared to gbpvr. for example, I know the window name now changes to show the recording/show name being played.

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Sub: Does npvr have different application/window properties compared to gbpvr. for example, I know the window name now changes to show the recording/show name being played.

The window is done exactly the same way as GBPVR. The only difference, as you noted, is that NPVR changes the title bar to include the channel name during live tv or file name during playback. This changing of the titlebar could potentially be an issue, but you can test that by seeing if it works fine until playback starts (which is when the titlebar is first changed).

The app doesnt know anything about the Hauppauge remote, and instead just responds to keyboard events, and the Hauppauge remote works by generating fake keyboard events. If a real keyboard is quick, then its a good sign NPVR is doing it's job.

[Clanky]

Are people here saying the problem is gbpvr vs npvr on the same OS?

Yes, exactly.
I've got Win7 x64 Ultimate with PVRX2 installed. It runs fine with no problems.

I installed nPVR & this runs very well, except for the Hauppauge 45 rc being laggy.
Its obvious that there is a lag when scrolling through a list of recordings. When I release the rc button the list keeps scrolling
until it 'catches up', for want of a better word. Theres no such problem with PVRX2

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Yes, exactly.
I've got Win7 Ultimate with PVRX2 installed. It runs fine with no problems.

I installed nPVR & this runs very well, except for the Hauppauge 45 rc being laggy.
Its obvious that there is a lag when scrolling through a list of recordings. When I release the rc button the list keeps scrolling
until it 'catches up', for want of a better word. Theres no such problem with PVRX2

Does it work fine for you if you use a real keyboard?

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I'd not had a Hauppauge retail remote plugged in for years, but I plugged one in this morning to check out this problem. Can someone explain exactly where I need to look to see this problem?

Do you see this problem on individual button presses, or is it related to the repeat rate on the remote?

On trying it with NPVR my initial observeration was that worked ok. I couldnt see any significant delay on single button presses. In the video library, with a list of directories, holding down the 'down' key was pretty slow, with what looked like a slow repeat rate. It was probably moving about 4 items per second. With the keyboard's down key it was moving more lik 10-15 items per second. I fired up PVRX2.exe to compare, and I found the behaviour there to be about the same 4 or 5 items per second with the remote, and a lot more with a real keyboard (which gives a much higher repeat rate). This same key repear rate could be seen when I opened "debug.txt" in notepad, and looked at how many often numbers appeared when I held down the '8' key. I also checked an MCE remote, which was moving about 10 items per second, much like a keyboard.

This was on Win7 64bit. I could see no significant difference in behaviour between PVRX2 vs NPVR.

[lost@c]

Does it work fine for you if you use a real keyboard?

It does for me Sub. Keyboard is fine, remote laggy. Win7, GBPVR no lag, NPVR laggy. I appreciate that if the keyboard is fine it's a remote issue rather than NPVR, but it does seem strange that it happens this way. Yesterday I tried a couple of different (older) versions of IR32.exe but they behaved the same way.

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It does for me Sub. Keyboard is fine, remote laggy. Win7, GBPVR no lag, NPVR laggy. I appreciate that if the keyboard is fine it's a remote issue rather than NPVR, but it does seem strange that it happens this way. Yesterday I tried a couple of different (older) versions of IR32.exe but they behaved the same way.

Please answer my other post above. I'm couldnt see any significant difference in behavior between GBPVR and NPVR, so I'm not sure I'm looking in the correct place to see the problem.

[lost@c]

I'd not had a Hauppauge retail remote plugged in for years, but I plugged one in this morning to check out this problem. Can someone explain exactly where I need to look to see this problem?

Do you see this problem on individual button presses, or is it related to the repeat rate on the remote?

On trying it with NPVR my initial observeration was that worked ok. I couldnt see any significant delay on single button presses. In the video library, with a list of directories, holding down the 'down' key was pretty slow, with what looked like a slow repeat rate. It was probably moving about 4 items per second. With the keyboard's down key it was moving more lik 10-15 items per second. I fired up PVRX2.exe to compare, and I found the behaviour there to be about the same 4 or 5 items per second with the remote, and a lot more with a real keyboard (which gives a much higher repeat rate).

This was on Win7 64bit. I could see no significant difference in behaviour between PVRX2 vs NPVR.

I'm on Win732 bit and for me, it's both individual and held down actions. I would say that on the keyboard when scrolling through the menu I get about 6 items per second. On the MCE remote I get about the same and on the 45 button I get 2. Additionally if I hold down for say 5 seconds, I get 21 seconds of continued scrolling after release. Same action on both keyboard and mce gives an instant stop on release. (main menu scrolling sideways)

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Additionally if I hold down for say 5 seconds, I get 21 seconds of continued scrolling after release. Same action on both keyboard and mce gives an instant stop on release. (main menu scrolling sideways)

Hmmm, I'm definitely not seeing that here. I tried that same test just now, and if I hold down the key for 5 seconds then release it, it stops pretty much instantly (maybe quarter of a second later). I'm on Win7 64 bit, with an HVR-950Q acting as the IR Receiver, with 45 bit retail remote.

We'll probably need to get the same info from others to see if there is some common factors to when the problem happens (32bit win7? or specific devices? etc).

Either way, I think I've seen enough to know it's not globally effecting all users using Hauppauge retail remotes.

[stustunz]

In ir server suite you can change the repeat time have you tried that ?