With the Powermid setting the channel/id etc. doesn't do anything. Supposedly if you set a channel/id it sends out a string that tells the Pronot repeaters which one you are addressing. The Powermid ignores this pre-string. So the answer is if the repeater is going to work it doesn't matter what you do with the channel/id.

The problem I kept having was that I would tell it to do the device RF but it wouldn't send out RF. I could tell it wasn't sending RF because it still worked the device directly with IR.

I had to learn the code I wanted to send RF and it would then send it correctly. Picking the codes from the Database always went IR no matter what. Haven't worked with it with the new firmware revision.

If you have the Pronto set for RF and you test it directly with the device and it's not sending IR - then if the repeater doesn't work its not going to.