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T2 Software - First Impressions
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Post 1 made on Wednesday April 19, 2000 at 23:04
DJ Garcia
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I know Daniel will give us the lowdown soon enough, but I'm sure there's people out there as impatient as I am so I thought I'd give you a quick first impression:

IMPRESSIVE!

The software is very well behaved and user friendly. Much thought has obviously gone into its design. It not only configures your pages and buttons, but includes IR library manager plus bitmap and custom button editors and library managers.

It really is a snap to configure and works very smoothly. Almost everything (including command assignment) is drag-n-drop.

The only problem I've encountered can be disastrous but is easily avoided. I got a corrupted bitmap library from assigning bitmaps from my library while it was open in the bitmap editor. so moral of the story, don't be tempted - close that library before using!

There are many great features, like assigning two codes to a button which get sent alternately on repeated key presses (first press sends code 1, next press sends code 2). Another is to send a different code if the button is held down longer. These make the small touchscreen extremely powerful for its size. Plus the same applies to the hard keys!

The included sample library has lots of devices. Unfortunately it didn't have the Sony TA-E9000ES :(. But even if I can't get the codes in library form the included IR library manager should make it fairly easy to collect whatever codes I have already in my Pronto.

Well, I hope my unit gets here soon! Cheers,

DJ
OP | Post 2 made on Thursday April 20, 2000 at 18:43
Steven Grimm
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I downloaded the software this morning and played around with it a bit before heading to work, and I agree with the above -- it's a very slick piece of work, with an intuitive UI and an impressive feature set. This remote will definitely be attractive to Pronto fans.

The IR librarian is much nicer than the equivalent Pronto hack of building a hidden buttons page with all the remote codes. Macro building is a simple drag-and-drop affair. You can even put internal functions like "turn off the backlight" into a macro sequence.

You can assign buttons to RS232 codes, which I assume means there's a base station with an RS232 port you can hook up to other devices.

The smaller touchscreen may make it more difficult to build an interface that walks newcomers through the necessary steps to start watching a movie or whatever. On the other hand, the only reason I need to have a multi-step process on my Pronto is because some of my equipment lacks discrete on/off codes. I've seen hints that the TheaterTouch might be able to receive feedback about whether devices are powered on or not, and conditionally send codes based on that feedback.

Looking forward to playing with the software a bit more, and of course to Daniel's review.
OP | Post 3 made on Thursday April 20, 2000 at 20:56
Ethan Trull
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I also got a copy of the software from RTI and spent a little time playing around with it. All I can say is that it heads and shoulders above both my RC5000 and HK Take Control software. Now, of course, I'm frustrated because I can't actually get my hands on a remote!


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