On November 11, 2006 at 14:35, 8ate8 said...
1) The Listen and Watch buttons are your activity buttons.
You make your devices on those pages (place your DVD,
TV, Sat, etc. devices on the Watch page, and CD, Radio,
Receiver, etc. on Listen.) I place my activity devices
on the first page (DVD, CD, Radio, etc.) and place the
TV and Receiver on page 2 of Watch and Listen, because
you are building macros, there's no need to directly access
the TV and Receiver.) Hide any unneeded buttons for the
DVD, Sat, etc. on hidden pages.
2) Do one step macros. If you must have the Dolby button
from your receiver on the DVD page, make a button on the
LCD page of the DVD device and call it Dolby. Then do
a macro, and have it just do the Dolby command from the
receiver.
3) Answered above for ya.
4) You found out.
5) You should just be able to press and hold the volume
button and have it repeat until you let go.
8ate8... Thanks for the responses...
1) I don't really get your answer on this one. It sounds like you have two real things you do with your sysetm. I have the following activities...
Watch Cable
Play xbox 460
Watch DVD
Listen to a CD
Listen to Music (off of the cable box)
All of them require a different setup within a page. For example, watch DVD and listen to CD, have different requirements of the TV being on or off (DVD on, CD off). Because of this, the Watch page has all the activities, the Listen page has all the components.
One always needs access to the full components, just in case. In an "Watch Cable" activity, the remote will control all of the following without changing a LCD page...
TV (on/off, input)
Pre/Pro (volume buttons, mute, surround fomat (LCD))
Cable box (channel +/-, play, ff, rev, numbers, menu...)
2) When putting together the activities above (activity = a device with the 900, but one that uses the commands from multiple components), you need to go through the IRdb to assmble all that you would need to access in the activity. You cannot copy and paste that from other devices. Pain in the rear.
5) Each command that is programmed to a button press has a programmed duration (repeat). I believe the out of the box repeat for one button press is three. You can adjust the repeat of a single press when your brining over the command from the db. There is a drop down box that had the repeat value when your grabbing the command. Question is that when it's already in the remote configuration, can you adjust the duration, or do you have to grab the command again. Grabbing the command again is a pain in the butt again.
