Bueller, Bueller, Bueller

Mine landed in Canada yesterday. Should be another week before it makes it to me. 
I'm excited to get into it but am also thinking about letting it sit for a while until more drivers are available and kinks get ironed out. 

I'm just thinking about the additional hit my bank account is gonna take to pay the taxes and import duties 🤣🤣

Ah well, nobody forced us into expensive hobbies!

David Li wrote:

Yes, the system will be more stable by then.  But, it will be everchanging.  Has been for the last 20 years.  There are always improvements and new features to add.  But that process is what got us here - the most powerful handheld remote in the business.  The core system is hugely capable and stable.  The "addons" to support SmartRemote are Beta.  The lack of documentation bit us but had to follow the late breaking software changes.  The key is:  Follow the documentation.  What we have found is that many aren't doing that and getting their systems into a swirl requiring expert debugging to figure out what wasn't done right.  The documentation is pretty accurate now.  It too will continue to improve both subject and style to make it more understandable.

I'll be carrying on playing with my trial version in the meantime as well. By fiddling and loading the Harmony scene in myDesigner I've managed to get Harmony activities and devices listed and device buttons show up when I click a device. Nothing makes the Harmony hub react though - I currently suspect that it's because I'm running myServer on a Windows VM (under Proxmox) and the network commands aren't making it through. It's weird though as it's managed to interrogate the hub for the list of activities and devices. Either that or it doesn't know which hub it should be targeting. Plenty to play with even before my hardware arrives.

Andrew

andrew wrote:

David Li wrote:

Yes, the system will be more stable by then.  But, it will be everchanging.  Has been for the last 20 years.  There are always improvements and new features to add.  But that process is what got us here - the most powerful handheld remote in the business.  The core system is hugely capable and stable.  The "addons" to support SmartRemote are Beta.  The lack of documentation bit us but had to follow the late breaking software changes.  The key is:  Follow the documentation.  What we have found is that many aren't doing that and getting their systems into a swirl requiring expert debugging to figure out what wasn't done right.  The documentation is pretty accurate now.  It too will continue to improve both subject and style to make it more understandable.

I'll be carrying on playing with my trial version in the meantime as well. By fiddling and loading the Harmony scene in myDesigner I've managed to get Harmony activities and devices listed and device buttons show up when I click a device. Nothing makes the Harmony hub react though - I currently suspect that it's because I'm running myServer on a Windows VM (under Proxmox) and the network commands aren't making it through. It's weird though as it's managed to interrogate the hub for the list of activities and devices. Either that or it doesn't know which hub it should be targeting. Plenty to play with even before my hardware arrives.

Andrew

I just hope that Allonis is documenting what the two of you have been doing to help the dozen others that have wanted to run this under Proxmox.  We know it's possible, just need to have the details figured out and documented.  But it will always be for the Advanced Users as every system is unique.

David Li wrote:

I just hope that Allonis is documenting what the two of you have been doing to help the dozen others that have wanted to run this under Proxmox.  We know it's possible, just need to have the details figured out and documented.  But it will always be for the Advanced Users as every system is unique.

For me it's only a stopgap until I get my Pi based hardware. As I said I'm running it under a Windows 11 VM so I think I just downloaded myServer-win-x64 from allonis.com/support/documentation/downlo...e/1-allonis-software , unzipped it into c:\apps\myserver, discovered I needed nmap for autodiscovery of devices so downloaded that from nmap.org/download.html#windows , discovered I needed adb for the AndroidTV driver so downloaded that from developer.android.com/tools/releases/platform-tools , and now when I run the myserver.exe it seems to work. When I first ran it doing a restart seemed to stop it but not start it again but that seems to have sorted itself out. And of course the problem with myDesigner looking in the wrong place turned out to be a bug.

Andrew

andrew wrote:

David Li wrote:

I just hope that Allonis is documenting what the two of you have been doing to help the dozen others that have wanted to run this under Proxmox.  We know it's possible, just need to have the details figured out and documented.  But it will always be for the Advanced Users as every system is unique.

For me it's only a stopgap until I get my Pi based hardware. As I said I'm running it under a Windows 11 VM so I think I just downloaded myServer-win-x64 from allonis.com/support/documentation/downlo...e/1-allonis-software , unzipped it into c:\apps\myserver, discovered I needed nmap for autodiscovery of devices so downloaded that from nmap.org/download.html#windows , discovered I needed adb for the AndroidTV driver so downloaded that from developer.android.com/tools/releases/platform-tools , and now when I run the myserver.exe it seems to work. When I first ran it doing a restart seemed to stop it but not start it again but that seems to have sorted itself out. And of course the problem with myDesigner looking in the wrong place turned out to be a bug.

Andrew

Yes, our Linux Master image typically included ADB...but that was a miss.  It was then added to the AndroidTV driver to readd it back to the users existing systems.  This is useful to find the SmartRemote IP, and to reboot hardware remotely (like the SmartRemote and SmartScreens).  This has been added into the documentation too.