Detecting Keypress Release
I added a feature to our app to detect "long presses" - when the user is holding down a directional key, the focus keeps moving until the key is released. Problem is that sometimes the roku does not ...
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"BradC" wrote:
I think so. I dont think there is an ir sensor on the stick. I tried to test other remotes on my tv and the tv remote on my roku sd, but apparently they aren't compatible with each other. I didnt even know that but it makes sense.
Roku sticks have no IR sensor. Their remote uses WiFiDirect somehow and if i remember all WiFiD remotes are cross-compatible (sans #34xx/MHL/CEC stick, don't ask me why). I suspect their protocol is closely related to BT remotes, while quite different from IR or ECP. Re IR, i believe each "proper" RokuTV (i.e. models #5xxx, not the Roku-ready-stick-stuck TVs) uses their manufacturer's IR code family, i.e. TCLs, Hisense's etc.
I was unable to reproduce the forever-stuck situation on Hisense RTV (IR) but suspect am lacking in hand movements/mojo. BradC - maybe you can eventually reproduce the magic on another Roku player and thus lift suspicion away from TCL IR towards Roku-at-large?
