Someone really went for their over-engineering merit badge with this one. All that was necessary was USBHID compliance and these would work with any modern OS. Instead, someone decided to go with closed source proprietary drivers which, of course, they only felt like providing for Apple and Microsoft platforms.
Way to fail.
TomaCzarWell, they probably wanted it to integrate well with office products, meaning they would have to follow microsoft's standards. Chances are if you're giving powerpoint presentations (requiring a slide remote and laser pointer), you're probably not using a linux box with the office suite. :)
j0hnnyInteresting assumption, that presentations require Microsoft or PowerPoint.
I would imagine Google Slides, slides.com, and LibreOffice developers would all disagree, just to name a few. I give a few presentations every month, and I certainly do not use PowerPoint or any Microsoft products.
I'm a fringe case, I'm aware, but if my use case isn't important, neither is my money.
TomaCzarPowerPoint needs to die in a fire. But if you're on Win/OSX you can still use the silver one with alternate slide decks as it apparently emits page up/page down.
PASSDROMIDK, if it just did PGUP/DOWN it would certainly work with Linux. What's more, you would think the vendor might have already mentioned this in order to sell more since that was my first complaint over a week ago.
Maybe you're right, but with no confirmed evidence to the fact, it's not worth it to me to cross me fingers, close my eyes, and jump.
TomaCzar> it would certainly work with Linux
Unless they only made drivers for Win/OSX, which they could have. I agree with you that USBHID would be the way to go.
chrismetcalfAccording to this review (http://bit.ly/1KmODWo), the Silver one will work for Reveal.js:
> Outside of PowerPoint or other presentation suites, the Ring Style Presenter functions differently. The play/esc button acts as F5/refresh; previous and forward are page up and page down respectively; finally, the blank button simply inputs the letter ‘b’
Still not holding out hope for Linux driver support...
Way to fail.