On January 5, 2008 at 07:16, McNasty said...
Switching to any inputs with the on or off buttons is
pointless. It is assuming you know what the user wants
to watch. On and off should do nothing more than turn
on and off devices. Source selection buttons should do
the input switching. The only acception is when it is
in your house and you know what you want it to do. ie,
in my house "on" is the same as pressing the cabletv button
because it is all my wife watches. If I want anything
else I won't press on, but instead will just select the
source.
The source buttons do select the input. The way we do remotes, although usually mx850's, (main) On and Off are system on and system off. The off macro turns everything off and sets inputs to a known state. Then when you press (main)On, everything turns on that's needed, and jumps to local or HD page (with corresponding channel presets). The inputs are set so only "on" commands are needed.
Source buttons change inputs only. Unless dvd or like devices have discrete on/off then will turn on device. So the dvd player isn't on when it's not needed.
Now with your remote that's how you like it and that's fine. This is how we do it and it's not confusing to the "slow" clients. On is on, off is off and sources are sources. Simpler the better.
