On February 21, 2020 at 16:26, Fritz Thomas said...
Alias isn’t just a good macro practice for command quality. Let’s assume you program the remote and have 8 macros with variables. Client changes tv brand - all I need to do is drag the new power command onto my hidden page. Done - one simple step. Your method involves locating all those individual tv commands in both variable states and changing them. So although dragging IR codes can work you won’t usually find that method used for a few reasons like the one I described
If you have a complicated system I can see where that would be appropriate. In my case I rarely use anything other than the power on and off commands. I basically just create separate button that allows me access all of the commands from the TV incase I need to work on the setting for some odd reason. In the future if the only way is to access 8K content then I might make more use of the TV's capabilities. The way I have programmed my remote, I would simply need to change four commands, if in the future I needed to buy a new TV.
My system consist of a processor and power amp, apple 4k tv box, Panasonic UB9000 4k Blu-ray player, and an 8K Samsung TV. If you are curious why I have delays built in it is because of HDMI handshake issues with my processor. A firmware patch is due next week and hopefully will correct the problem which will allow me to simplify my macro.
I also have misplaced my "Programming in CCP" manual. Some how it disappeared and I had go from memory. If I had it I probably would not have come to this forum for help.
