Hello guys,
It's time to start working on the Fiire Chief support to bring it back into 0810. I know what i need to do, and that it will take approximately 20 hours to complete. My rates have been discussed in other threads, but I need to know if this is still wanted, if so, once I get the minimum contributions to cover the 20 hours of work, I will start work immediately.
-Thom
I just sent a little money via PayPal....
I sent some money on 08/20/2009, and at this moment Im sending a little more.
Just one question, when Fiire Chief finally works in 0810 I will need make a fresh install or can I just upgrade my current instalation?
Tks Thom
djonny
unfortunately it will not be possible to have an upgrade path from 0710.
My current install is 0810 latest.
...Upgrades to 0810 are quite simple:
sudo apt-get upgrade
There is not an upgrade path from 0710 to 0810.
sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade ;)
Thom - have you managed to look at this yet?
...
I thought I had made that abundantly clear by saying that I knew what the problem was and how long it would take approximately to fix it.
-Thom
true - but what I can't get a handle on from this thread is, have you received many donations, and if so how far off the target 20 hours are you? As I say, I have made a small (tiny) donation... but as soon as I get a job I will gladly contribute a more realistic amount (at the moment it is all about scraping together rent! a feeling you are well familiar with!)
i've recieved roughly $100 for it so far.
-Thom
Nobody cares to have spent on something that does not work anymore? I used this control less than 5 months.
There's someone interested to resolve the problem ($$)?
I would, but not by donating $ 100. If more people contribute I think we could solve this problem without expensive just for some of us.
Well i DO care as thought there are some more Fiire Chief followers like myself. Hopefully the money is not "lost", just went up in other stuff ;O)
Patrick
Since Fiire Chief is no longer available, have you guys considered switching to a Gyration remote which is supported? Trying to be delicate and understanding of those who have Fiire Chiefs, the money Thom wants to add support would buy a whole lot of Gyration remotes. You can buy a new Gyration remote that is plug-n-play with LMCE for $35 shipped (at least in the US). I don't think there are enough people interested in paying for Fiire support to come close to that.
skeptic, you´re right about buy the supported giratyon is obvious do this .. I just ask because I don´t have nothing to do with my unused fiire chief and I spent some money on it and used it for a very short time... :/. Nobody will buy it here in Brazil
hmm.
damn it fellas...
i will get to it when i get to it! stop whining!
or, you know what? i've outlined the relevant code...somebody else go in and do the required work!!! grow a sack!
-Thom
Quote from: the anxious on March 10, 2010, 06:40:21 PM
skeptic, you´re right about buy the supported giratyon is obvious do this .. I just ask because I don´t have nothing to do with my unused fiire chief and I spent some money on it and used it for a very short time... :/. Nobody will buy it here in Brazil
It's a tough one, and as someone with a bunch of old unused equipment in their closet, some barely used at all, I sympathize. Thom has said he will eventually get to it, and for that I applaud him. On a whim I bought one of those $35 Gyration remotes just to see if it would work (they are listed as model number 3201 instead of the lmce officially supported 3101). It works perfect, plug and play, and immediately replaced my MS remote (and I really dislike using the Gyration mouse). I can see why you guys want the fiire remote to be supported, it's probably even better. On the other hand, I just can't get away from the fact that these are no longer sold. Eventually the wagon wheel maker had to move on.
tschak: I tried to do a search to see what your hourly rates are like and couldn't find it. I would love to know because my job will hopefully soon allow me to send some money this project's way. Maybe we should get a sticky where developers can post their hourly rates?
Thom
Do I send payment with Paypal to your forum registered email address?
Can you advise on a couple of things, once this code is done will it be future proof on new releases or is this going to have to be done for each new release?
Can you advise how much your hourly rate is or point me to a link for this.
Or alternatively provide a link to the required work you have pointed out.
Thanks
Jamie.
Hi.
paypal to thomas@localeconcept.com.
I normally charge $100 an hour for LinuxMCE related work.
Once this code is done, it will work so long as they don't drastically create a new kernel input system that interferes with the old system like what happened this last time.
Basically, the code in src/Orbiter/Linux/HIDInterface.cpp needs to be rewritten to use the kernel hidraw devices, and decode button presses and bind requests from them, instead of relying on libusb calls.
-Thom
Thom
As I can't see many people donating to the fiire chief driver, I have purchased a 3102 remote, I would however still like to have the fiire chief running.
Could you direct me to the hidraw code for the 3101, if there was a libusb module for this it would be good as well, I won't claim to be able to do this however I will have a go if you point me in the right direction.
Thanks
Jamie.
The relevant code is in our SVN tree:
http://svn.linuxmce.org/svn/branches/LinuxMCE-0810/src/Orbiter/HIDInterface.cpp
-Thom