On November 12, 2006 at 07:29, Jester7677 said...
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...)
I think you are over engineering how to layout your remote. Place your DVD, Xbox and Cable devices under the Watch page. Place the CD devices under the listen page. Create a macro so that when you press DVD, it sets up all your inputs properly (TV On, TV Component 1, Receiver DVD, DVD On, etc.). Since you have the MX900 you can create press-and-hold macros. Create a press-and-hold macro for 1 second and have it skip the macro, and just go direct to the DVD page so that if you need to access the DVD commands without having all your TV inputs and receiver inputs change over, you can.
Email me and I'll send you a few examples of some clients remotes that I've programmed. To be honest, you're making your remote harder than it needs to be.
