Hi Samm,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We'll make sure it gets fixed.

In the meantime, have you checked whether the functionality is available in the remote drop-down menu?  Sometimes buttons aren't on the graphical remote but are still available in the other location.  

Becky

Same problem for Topfield 5800 remote - no colour buttons at all (green, yellow, blue, white) - all perform vital functions.

I have a work around now in place on the 5800, it's not perfect but it covers all the colour buttons including white.

Map the Red,Green,Yellow,Blue buttons to appropriate looking buttons and map functions as (respectively) : custom 22,23,24,25.

White is a little trickier and involves giving up the use of the PIP key on the remote to remap it to white key by using macro.tap

1) install the tap called "macro.tap" http://users.bigpond.net.au/deangelj/New/macro.htm in the "ProgramFiles/Auto Start" folder, also install Tap Commander http://www.toppy.org.uk/~simonc/tapcommander.html (just into "ProgramFiles" folder) 

2) create a macro.ini file and paste in the following :

[macro]
Up=RKEY_ChUp
Down=RKEY_ChDown
Delete=RKEY_NewF1
Confirm=RKEY_Ok
Function=RKEY_Sleep

[function keys]
RKEY_Prev=RKEY_Ab

[options]
FunctionState=AlwaysOn
FunctionKeyTime=200
LoggingLevel=LogNone
RecordDelays=Y
MenuColPixel1=80
MenuColPixel2=40

3) put the macro.ini file into "ProgramFiles" directory on topfield

4) reboot the topfield and using the "Tap Commander" reposition the "macro.tap" at the top of the list - this is to ensure that the remapping will work in all taps loaded subsequently

5) reboot the topfield again and all been well you will find that pip button will now perform the same function as white key - you could also do this by remapping another key if you wish but choice is limited to custom keys that appear in the remote list

6) Last stage is to map another key similar to how the other colour keys were mapped to "custom 05"

Thats it

Sorry, meant to say I run my topfield 5800 PVR on S Video normally

marnix

Thanks for posting the procedure to follow.  It looks daunting to someone like me who is unfamiliar with loading taps but I'll give it a go.  It's a little frustrating that it hasn't been fixed on the virtual remote yet.  I get to be in the same physical location as my Topfield about once or twice a year so time is of the essence!

Just a quick question on your procedure.  When you refer to mapping red, green, yellow and blue buttons to custom 22, 23, 24 and 25, where are you doing the mapping?  It's been 11 months since I sat in front of all this stuff and I'm a bit rusty.....

steve64k said:

Becky said:

Hi Samm,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We'll make sure it gets fixed.

In the meantime, have you checked whether the functionality is available in the remote drop-down menu?  Sometimes buttons aren't on the graphical remote but are still available in the other location.  

Becky

 

Is there any news on getting this issue fixed on the virtual remote?

Steve

  I bought a UK Slingbox yesterday and  registered here today so that I too could ask whether there has been any progress towards adding the "white" key to the remote for the Topfield range of PVRs, especially since Becky mentioned they'd get it fixed back on June 12th 2006!

Ok steve,

Your macro.tap needs to be in ProgramFiles\Auto Start so that it kicks off automatically when you start up the toppy. The macro.ini needs to be in ProgramFiles\ .

Let me know if this works, I did the above setup on another toppy and it didn't work (could be an issue between remote codes on different versions of topfield [unsure])

Martin

Can anyone let me know if the issue of the white button has been resolved at all? Further to this, can anyone tell me what the custom codes are for the 5000?... In the above-mentioned forum, it talks about 22,23,24 and 25 but what about the rest? Are these listed anywhere?... Was this resolved by Slingmedia at all as per the posts?.... (Sorry for all the questions!....). I would apprecaite help on this one....

 Best regards

Andrew

Jase69 said: Any news on this? Jason 

Since my posting on November 23, I contacted Slingmedia but unfortanutely got no more than the standard "We apologise for this situation" but could get no reply from Slingmedia as to when this would be provided as a solution. To me, it seems such an easy fix (given that it affects a large majority of the Topfield remotes... ). Still waiting for a result on this for an issue that Becky advised on the 16th of June 2006 that she would have this fixed.

 To resolve this issue at the moment, I ended up purchasing a bridge for the TP5000PVRt that connects the unit to an enthernet connection. From there, the bridge acts as a FTP server so I can remotely connect to my network, connect to the Topfield through the FTP server and delete files. A very round about way to do this that cost me $149 to incorporate but had no other choice....

steve64k said: Jase The fix provided by Marnix above works, and is free.  I'm still using it successfully more than a year later.  Agreed it is a pain that it hasn't been fixed at source.  Steve

I went about fixing this a bit differently. I installed UK Autoscheduler, which is really handy piece of software to automate recordings. Well it also has an option to automatically copy stuff to a certain folder and clean that folder. I created automatic recording called trash, with such keywords that it never records anything. The folder into which the stuff should be recorded is called Trash and UKAS is scheduled to delete all items older than 1 minute from that folder. Then once I have watched a recording I just move it to trash and it is gone.

 Iikka