Siri Remote: How Do I Know If the Mouse Control Mode is Active?

Configuration Help & General Discussion
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Hi,

BTT allows us to toggle Siri Remote Mouse Control Mode. This is great.

Is there a way to know whether the Mode is on or off?
I know we can tested by trying the trouchpad and others, but I hope there is a visual sign on the screen to show something like "Mouse Control ON" / "Mouse Control OFF".

Thanks!

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I have the same problem.
Is there a way to get the status?

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I just try mouse move to see if it is moving. If moving, then it's Mouse Control On mode.

I use long press the microphone key trigger for the toggle.

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currently there is no built in variable for the state, but I‘m currently adding multiple new variables. I’ll put it on the list.

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Hi Andreas,
Your development of SIRI remote is wonderful, it is simply great
Is it possible to Single click action and double click action on the trackpad of SIRI Remote?

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BTT's mouse mode uses tap to click, which also allows double-clicks.

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Have you already integrated the variable and if so, what is it name?

8

Yeah... Trying to replicate floating menu from Remote Buddy, and got stuck with this.

  1. While in 'Control Mode', BTT ignores remote's arrow buttons
  2. To use arrows on remote to go through menu, we need to disable Control Mode when activating Floating Menu.
  3. But we actually can't, because we can only 'toggle' it. If there was Control Mode state somewhere, we could fire the toggle based on it.

Hope developer will add the state someday. It would be beautiful to create a actually working floating menu for Siri Remote.

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nowadays there is the BTTSiriRemoteMouseModeActive variable that you can check and toggle based on it