On April 12, 2019 at 15:01, Ernie Gilman said...
That is the truth of the situation. It is not the answer. There is no answer. If the original post is accurate, what he wants to do cannot be done.
You propose having a screen with a question like
This is suggested despite this from Post 1:
We also have:
Solution is simple. Hire a person to push the button when needed.
Yes, that's a smartass answer, but it puts in strong relief how ridiculous it is if the client insists on not having to push a button from time to time.
Client could also buy the cable company and make the changes we all complained about in this thread. Budget is not an issue.
The last one: I wouldn't put it past him.
Just amazes me that in this day and age we are STILL dealing with this as a problem. Even more amazing is that every time we find a semi reliable workaround they change things to make it even harder. Two codes, ON and Off. That is all we are asking for.
