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2013-03-10, 16:52
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-10, 16:53 by tspeirs.)
It should just be plug and play and setup is handled from within the app. You will need to use something like advance launcher to use it from XBMC but I may add a launcher plugin myself soon so its painless for folks. The forum is pretty decent and very active with other stuff so am not sure why you didn't get confirmation. Perhaps try sending it again?
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OK, I just released version 1.1 and it will automatically install an XBMC plugin for launching. Again it should just be plug and play when you install it.
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Excellent work Tom. By the way, I'm a big fan of gamex. used it for my frontend of my MAME project!! I tried using the slingfront with XBMC Frodo, it launches beautifully. My problem is everytime i try to exit slingfront, it minimizes xbmc and I am back in windows desktop. Is there any way to quit slingfront straight back to XBMC for that integrated experience ?
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Thanks for giving it a try. I am guessing it is something to do with full screen settings in XBMC. I had a similar issue with the XBMC gameex plugin with Frodo. I will take a look.
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1.2, now available fixe the focus issue.
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WORKS!!!! Awesome app Tom!!
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Thanks so much for the effort on this (and for sharing!), Tom. It works great. Much appreciated.
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2013-07-27, 08:24
(This post was last modified: 2013-07-27, 08:26 by djcorvus.)
I am using the program with my Windows Media remote. However, even if I use my (wired) keyboard, I've found that Slingfront only registers keystrokes about 50% of the time, even if a key is held down for over a second. For example, when I try to press the numbers on my remote to navigate directly to a channel (or even press the channel up/down buttons), it only sometimes registers the buttons I've pressed. This is incredibly frustrating and essentially make the program unusable for me.
I can confirm that this only happens while using Slingfront, because using my slingbox through the website on full screen has no such problem, and even though I experience the expected latency between input and on-screen feedback, all keystrokes are always registered on the other end.
Additionally, I've tried slingfront on another PC, and the same issue is present.
I've also had the chance to test multiple slingboxes on different accounts, and the issue is the same (only on Slingfront).
Is anyone else reporting this problem? And more importantly, is there a fix?
It would be a shame if no fix exists, since Slingfront is currently the only one I can find that has a 10 foot interface and that has a plugin for XBMC.
I'm running the software on a Windows 7 PC, but I've also experienced the same problem on my Windows 8 PC.
Any ideas?
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Any idea how to change aspect ratio on slingfront? I'm stuck on 4:3.
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In my experience, Slingplayer looks best in internet explorer, rather than chrome. Also this WDTV link is awesome. I'm able to use keyboard shortcuts directly via Harmony remote. Using Advanced launcher, select iexplorer.exe. For arguments, use: -k "http://download.slingmedia.com/spcd/wdtv/index.html"
