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Post 21 made on Tuesday December 18, 2001 at 08:42
Mike Riley
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Claude: all commands are learned to the existing buttons, and to a Menu of commands accessible on the LCD screen 9which is not a touchscreen). You cycle through the commands, and a variety of command main menus, using the thumbwheel. Say for example you want to control your Receiver's surround outputs: you enter the "Listen to Music" Activity, and are shown a menu. One of the menu items is "Surround" or "Speakers" or whatever you have chosen to call it when you set the remote up. It may also have a name provided automatically by the command structure of the Device itself. That menu then allows you to use the Navigation hard buttons to control your Receiver's menu.

You are limited in the number of ways you can change settings on the Receiver only by the number of ways the Receivers makes them available to you. In other words, everything can be duplicated. Since this is still the early stages of Device-gathering for EasyZapper, you will probabably have to spend a bit of time with the online Wizards to properly set up all your requirements. But believe me, even if you had to tweak a setting or two in the XML scripts, you don't need any programming or coding knowledge at all.

Cycling through channels usually involves spinning through the LCD onscreen TV Guide listings, or the listing of named channels, or your Favorites listings, or any one of several other special lists you can set up. The LCD screen scrolls entire pages a time, to save wear and tear on your thumb. A second option is to select the "Direct" function from the TV menu: this displays a channel button panel on the LCD, and you use the Nav buttons to select the channel you want. Not my favorite way of doing it, mind.

And you are correct: they hope to build a complete and universal command database, based on Brand and Model, not on individual codes. The neat thing is, though, is that while the Code libraries of many other remotes are limited to specific commands, and often on the wrong keys, the EasyZapper IR methodology actually interprets the signal types, and determines all the codes that may be used from that recognition. Creates the IR library for your Device on the fly, so to speak. And any codes it doesn't come up are easily taught, and need only be taught once, from your original remotes. So you can put the rest of 'em away.

The Harmony is a different way of looking at remotes. You don't program in lengthy Macros, step by tedious step. You tell it what each of your Devices is capable of doing, and then it sets up all the Activities you might want to do, automatically. If you remove or add a Device, just tell it, and it reorganizes all its settings so you don't have to redo anything. ,,,, Mike


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