IR Learning for the Skip 1s

Flirc is excited to announce the launch of IR Learning for the Skip 1s remote control. You can now incorporate any IR remote control into your media flow, regardless of whether it is in our library or not. And the process should be extremely easy.

Over time, we hope to make these newly learned remotes available to our entire community. Every time the Skip 1s library expands, life gets a little easier for the whole Flirc community!

Teaching the Skip 1s New Tricks

For a quick tutorial on how to record your remote, watch the video below.

Skip 1s IR Recording

Firmware Updates

Apart from the additional ability to record, we have identified further performance and stability improvements that should enhance usability and improve battery life. We are excited about these recent improvements.

Other Improvements

This update brings several other quality-of-life improvements, including improved performance, better space and animation management and other bug fixes. Even if you are all set with existing remotes, we’ll highly encourage everyone to update to experience these added benefits.

Full Changelog

New – IR Learning Wizard Addition
Improved – Performance on Mac
Fixed – Activity Animation with Large Config
Fixed – Add Activity Highlight Placement
Fixed – Manual Assignment on Linux Resulted in Duplicates
Fixed – Recording Occasionally Showing Incorrect Icon
Fixed – Remote Manager Tools Icons in Dark Mode
Fixed – Screen Resolution in Compact Mode Bug
Fixed – Wizard Dropdown Alphabetical Ordering
Firmware – Ability to Record Remotes
Firmware – Stability, Performance, Battery Improvements

What’s Next

Over the next few days, we will be releasing a new release candidate for further testing, which is the most significant performance overhaul of our application. We expect this release to go live in 2 weeks. Our immediate focus will now be:

GUI

Wizard Overhaul and Improvements
Fixing multi-state Buttons (mute on / mute off, play, pause, etc)
Misc Bug Fixes

Firmware

Smart Device Switching
Support for Multi-State Buttons

We have faced a number of significant technical challenges this year that have set us back a bit on schedule. We couldn’t work on some of these firmware features until we had learning working to meet our expectations, and made some under-the-hood progress. Overall, we are excited about our current position, and I’m confident that customers will visually see and feel the differences that are being released and are imminent. Thanks for everyone’s continued support.

To Celebrate

To celebrate this huge milestone, we made a fun video we thought you would enjoy. Check it out and share!