I bought the Griffin Beacon today but just realized it's useless to me right now. There just isn't any way to add discrete codes in hex, which is a MUST since these codes are not available in digits db. I have a quite recent Samsung LED-TV and can't control important things like selecting a certain HDMI input because of this. I know the hex codes for the discrete commands but apparently have nowhere to edit them in. :-( So please add support for this ASAP! Pleeease? :)

My 2 cents

1. Real button macros.

2. Redesigned activity section to include any activity, not just power on/off.

3. Resize and change button style.

4. iPad app sorely needed.

5. Improve beacon, included batteries lasted 3 weeks. ( deal breaker ).

I would prefer to enable custom Backgrounds for each activity.
Ben

Greetings,

My wishlist is quite simple, reasonably easy (for the most part) and I think all users could benefit from these. I hope none of these were already mentioned. If they were, then of course I'll just add my support.

1.) TV - Favorite channels available on my "Watch TV" activity/remote.
Similar to DirecTV's "Turbo Tune", as they used to call it, it would be a button similar to the button that brings up the individual digits for choosing channels. Instead of these digits, you'd have a small list or menu of your favorite saved channels, like the ones in the Guide section. You could also think of it as a shortcut to a folder, like the folders in Android 4.0.

2.) Macros
I'd like like to echo what Yan stated. But to be clearer, I would like to have macros, with an adjustable delay between each action. It would look as simply as a track, with a finite amount of buttons that I could add, which would play out in succession. If possible, I would like to combine this with my next suggestion...

3.) Alarm Clock integration OR Scheduled activities
My TV, as awesome as the specs were when I bought, did not include a simple repeating On Time. It only came with timer for when it would turn on. I hate forgetting to set it each night. My previous OLD tv could be set to turn on at a certain time, at a specific volume, and on a specific input. Combined with my DirecTV receiver's ability to auto tune to a specific channel, I was able to have the news playing as I woke up. And if I had been watching TV quietly the night before, it would start loud enough to wake me.

What do you think? I hope you like these ideas.

Like many UK users I would like the r/g/b/y buttons. However I think there is a more general solution to this: the dijit-supplied remote for one of my devices (Humax satellite) has a green button, but not the other colours. Another poster mentioned a red button with the Sky remote. So Dijit clearly has these buttons available, but only makes them available for devices it believes has them. In fact, trawling around amongst the other device types and remotes, it is clear that there are a huge number of buttons it knows about (shuffle, repeat, etc), but for some reason the majority of these are not available if you try to "learn new button". The selection there is very limited. If the app made available *all* of the button icons it has through this menu, I could build a remote for pretty much anything by hand if I had to. As it is, if I want to add a remote for a manufacturer it doesn't know of it will give me what it considers to be the standard set of buttons for the specific kind of device, after which I can add a very limited set of standard buttons or a generic custom button.

So come on guys, how about offering *all* of the icons in the "learn new button" icon? That would make the app infinitely more flexible and useful.

I have been playing with the Beacon and like what It can do, but when I compare it to my old philips pronto there are some areas of the IPhone and IPad app that do need some tweaks.
These are based on what I Was able to do on the Pronto's Computer programming interface.
1 To be able to change the background for each device and the main app.
2 To be able to change the colour of buttons to the user's choice
3 To be able to use an image for a macro button (for example on the satellite remote Fox News, CNN, Cartoon Network, etc ) This would need macro's to be added to the device.
Also there are a lot of the for mentioned that I am used to using with the pronto.

While here writing this thread it might be an idea to create wish list Topic board , so that members can help develop the best remote interface for the Ipad and Android.

Maybe first thing why to get universal remote is macros as mentioned here in the first mail. Any idea if anything is happening anymore with this product?

Yes, please implement macro buttons and colored buttons urgently. Any idea when you plan to create an updated version, as the macros request is a long outstanding wish.