OK, you're right, the 'no matter' modifier wasn't quite right, but I still don't like having all those unused buttons. Just a personal preference.
I've been working with this thing for the past few days and it's beginning to 'click', which is nice. For my own use, I'd still prefer a touchscreen, but it still makes me feel good to know that people do like this thing. This way I don't have to feel like I'm giving them something that's a compromise. IOW - Who cares if I like it or not, I want the customer to have something they like.
The one I delivered yesterday was for a builders showroom that had a bunch of kitchens in it. It had to control 6 displays, each with 2 sources. When I was done with the program, my supervisor checked it out and found a couple little bugs which I fixed, and then we showed it to the guy who ran the showroom. He really loved it, which was a reward in itself considering my initial impression of the unit.
The universal browser IS a great little thing, and it totally saved me on this one. 5 of the 6 displays were these odd Sony units that really weren't right for the job, but we were coming in after someone else had installed them so I had to work with them. The URC database had nothing on them, but I found discretes for the inputs in a .ccf format and was able to drop them in. Very nice.
I'm sure I'll be working with these things a lot, so I'm glad that I'm now more familiar with them. There are still some things that bug me about it (ex., limited text on the LCD is kind of annoying), but it is a really flexible device, and that's good.
