With long wait times, it would be great to have a demo environment to allow buyers to setup their remote ahead of their arrivals. This would allow us to fill the wait getting the setup sorted and be up and running quickly once it arrives.
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This might help:
When i briefly looked at it, it was very much for tech savy programmers and not the average consumer.
A more user friendly windows installer or web app would be great.
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It is not so complicated. They prepared a virtual machine which will load in Virtual Box.
Ralf
Thanks, will give it ago.
Might be something the guys behind the remote consider creating a step by step guide for other users.
Hi Ralf, I’m not a geek but would like to see how my up coming Remote 3 is going to operate so I am very interested in the Simulator. How do I get it to run. Can you give me a list of the things I need to do. I’m running a Win 11 PC. Cheers Phil out.
I try to give a very short tour:
Download UC_Remote-Core_Simulator from Core-Simulator-VM-20230317 – Google Drive
Download and install Oracle Virtualbox from Downloads – Oracle VirtualBox
Start VirtualBox and import the *.OVA file you got in the first step. If it is imported you see it on the left side, right mouse click on the icon and then select start. If everything worked you will see a Linux desktop and there start Firefox and you will see the web configurator of the Remote 2 if a pin is requested enter 1234. This is an old version of the current GUI but this will change quite a bit in the next weeks to version 2. So look and feel will be different but the features will be similar.
Ralf
I managed to get most of it working after resolving bios issues and networking ones.
What i cant figure out was how to either setup to work with my home assistant environment or to configure the inbuilt one to think it has similar devices.
Plus its remote 2 and not 3, so can only get so far.
It is the best you can get. As I said web config will change quite a bit. You can see in a video I think on kickstarter.
Yeah its still useful but wanted to give others a realistic expectation of it.
Ralf Thank you for reply, that’s exactly what I wanted. I will set that up in the next day or two, cheers. Up and running now, just had to activate the CPU SVM mode in Bios. Thanks for your time.
Perhaps you also must enable VT-x in your BIOS in order to get VirtualBox to work.
Ralf
Ralf, I forgot to add that I also turned on”Virtual machine platform” under windows features (win 11). As I said I have it all up and running ,have started by adding 3 remotes. Two questions please…1) should I be able to download a set of IR codes I have from Global Cache ? I have read how to do it but can’t find the right place to add the CSV file. 2) should I be able to test the commands from the PC ? Cheers Phil out.
Does that mean you have got it working with a live home assistant environment?
No. I have a reasonably simple home entertainment set up, Sony TV, Sony tuner amp, Sony Blue Ray player, Kaon Sky Box, Apple TV, Phillips Hue lighting so at this stage do not need Home Assistant and anticipate controlling them all with the remote 3 and dock 3.