I'm considering buying a Cinema 7. I was also looking at the Jensen 595. The Jensen has a feature that alows you to turn on all (well almost all) your devices with one button. Does anybody know if the Cinema 7 can do this?

Greg,

Yes you can do that. You can program a "powerup/down" macro to the POWER button on the
Cinema 7. DavidB will back me up on this as he has done the same thing. It works great. Great little remote!

Tom

Tom,

Are you talking about using one if the 2 macro buttons, or a hidden way to launch a macro from the power button?

Greg

You can put a macro (or learn, for that matter) on just about ANY button, not just the ones specifically labled for it.

Ray is right about using any key you want. The only keys that can NOT have a macro on them seem to be the device keys, SLEEP, and SELECT.

I don't recommending using the POWER button for an ALL ON macro. Realize that any key used for a macro will only activate the macro in EVERY device (unless you remap it back to it's original function after creating the macro). I use 1L for powering up and correctly switching JUST the devices to watch my DSS. I use SETUP+1L for powering up JUST the devices needed to watch cable TV. I use 2L for DVD and SETUP+2L for VCR watching. You can handily refer to the POWER button for each device to turn on just the devices you need from the macros. If you can find DISCRETE on for your devices I suggest putting just it on your power button. I put discrete OFF for each device on my 4L button. I use SETUP+EXIT for "ALL OFF", a macro that turns everything off using the discrete codes, even if it was already off.

Dave

A thing that I did was put a macro on the power button to power up/power down my tv and receiver and set the system to watch tv as a starting/ending point for using my system. I have 1L as a macro to turn on dvd and set the receiver and tv for dvd mode. 2L does the same for vcr. I have used SETUP-POWER to access the onn/off button in all devices so that I can always turn an individual component on or off that way.

Thanks for the responses. I couldn't find a Cinema7 with learning, so I picked up a Cinema6 w/learning. I ended up putting a TV/RCVR on/off macro on the power button just like UOFM. I access the orignal POWER function by hitting SETUP+POWER. I used 1L for VCR on and to the set the focus of the remote to VCR mode. I used, 2L to turn off the VCR and set the focus back to TV. I did the same for DVD on 3L and 4L. I know I've used up the L buttons, but I wanted it to be easy and clear for everyone that uses it. I wasn't able to find descrete on/off for all my devices. I didn't know you could stack macros. Thanks a nice feature. One last question, I'd like to remap a key so that you have to hit SETUP+KEY to access it. So far, I can get it so the remapped function works when pressing the key, and the original function works when pressing SETUP+KEY.

Greg

Macro shortcoming on Cinema 7

Called OFA they said two significant things.
One, Dishplayer (my sat receiver) not supported, must be learned.
Two, Anything learned cannot be put in a macro.

So there you have it... no total system off/on macros for devices without setup codes.

Unless ofcourse there is some trick you all know that I don't.

wayne

I'm not sure if the last part, anything learned cannot be put in a macro, is correct. At least on my Cinema 6 (not sure of the model number), I have 1L programmed under the DVD to open the tray on my Panasonic A110. This 1L key is used as the last key in one of my macro's, the one that switches the system from TV mode to DVD mode.

Andrej

To correct a statement in my last post, Learned keys can be included in a macro... (OFA was wrong) But if you have a dishplayer like I do... you have problems that might lead you to believe otherwise.