Beta Feed
For those interested in in staying on the cutting edge of Proxi releases, there is a blueprint that will let you switch Proxi to the beta software feed. You can get the blueprint here:
It works by triggering on a hotkey (control-option-B) which will execute a shell script that changes the location where Proxi looks for new updates. You may want to relaunch Proxi if it doesn’t seem to “notice” the change right away. A trigger is also available to switch back to the regular feed (control-option-R).
If you feel more comfortable executing these commands in the Terminal then you can forego the blueprints and executing the following in the Terminal:
Beta: defaults write com.griffintechnology.Proxi SUFeedURL http://proxi.griffintechnology.com/software/ProxiCastBeta.xml
Release: defaults write com.griffintechnology.Proxi SUFeedURL http://proxi.griffintechnology.com/software/ProxiCast.xml
If you switch to the beta feed, you’ll notice a new release of Proxi is available. Version 1.1 adds these items:
- Added radioSHARK trigger (requires radioSHARK v2.0.1)
- Added radioSHARK task (requires radioSHARK v2.0.1)
- Added Battery monitor task
- RSS Monitor errors now display in the RSS settings view
- RSS Monitor now correctly handles more varieties of feeds
- Fixed a problem where unnamed triggers did not appear to be selectable
June 5th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Curse you, Proxi people! Now I seem to have gone and ordered a RadioShark. At this rate, I’ll have an office full of GriffinGear. (One USB AirClick and a PowerMate already here…)
I’m really wishing I had more buttons on the AirClick, though. Mostly it’s set up for iTunes: besides the usual stuff, if I hold the Play/Pause button for two seconds, it adds the current song to my Running playlist (via applescript), and if I hold the next track button for two seconds, it fires up a music playlist, in case iTunes is in more of a mood to play an episode of Battlestar Glactica or something in the next room. I’m sure I could come up with a bunch of other things to do with the remote (controlling Indigo comes to mind), but with only five buttons, there’s only so much you can do….
Also, have you thought about setting up a forum? Wikis are great for documentation, but in my book, they’re a lousy place to try to carry on a conversation.
And have you had a chance to look at adding case insensitivity to the Mail trigger?
Thanks again for this spiffy free (Ha! I keep buying GriffinStuff!) product!
June 6th, 2006 at 10:24 am
Thanks for the great (and free!) product.
In addition to the Key Press event, it would be very helpful to have a “Type a string” event. That way, I could automate things like inserting the current date into the topmost application as I type.
June 7th, 2006 at 10:06 am
You’re very welcome Dan
I just posted this over on the wiki regarding a “Type a string” task:
Proxi doesn’t have a specific “Insert Text task”, however you can place text on the Clipboard using a Load Clipboard task and following that, a Command-V Key Press task to paste
June 8th, 2006 at 6:21 am
Thank-you so much for adding the RadioShark trigger.
July 14th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
I have reviewed the blog and faq for proxi and cannot find an answer to my question. I am using a graphical program and want to make the powermate dial send a “normal” keystroke (a for example and q is another) so that I can use multiple dials do individual functions (one could be rotate about x axis and another about y axis for example). However, the keypress task appears to only work for “special” keys. Is there a special reason for this? Can I change that requirement?
thanks,
-ed
July 16th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
@Ed
I set up a Key Press task to for the ‘A’ key like this:
Seems to work ok (it spewed out lots of a’s in a TextWranger document anyway). Is this how you have it configured?
July 17th, 2006 at 9:13 am
Casey,
Thanks for responding. You have done exactly what I am trying to do, but when I try to set that a in the window, the proxi editor ignores everything except special characters (apple a for example). This is true with ver 1.1 or 1.2. Are you using it under the powermate triggers? I wonder whether it happens because I am using the powermate (on OS X 10.4).
thanks,
-ed
July 19th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
Ed, first sorry it too me so long to respond. Stupid WordPress doesn’t seem to want to email comments to me when their posted… but that’s a different problem.
But yeah, I was using it with a PowerMate trigger. I’ll double check this on a couple of different machines though. I’ve only double check it on the MacBook Pro at this point.
July 19th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
Ed, there is the possibility that you’re using a version of Proxi previous to 1.2. I think Casey changed the Keypress task to accept any keystroke without a modifier key.
Try 1.2 and see if that fixes it for you.
July 19th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
I am using 1.2. Sigh.
thanks for the help.
-ed