On January 26, 2009 at 23:12, fingershop said...
A thought on overriding preprogrammed hard and soft buttons
with learned commands...
You can also override them with one-step macros. Using
this method you can effectively copy any button to any
other button, all without having to learn a single command.
Very useful if you don't have the original remote, or
if you want to rearrange preprogrammed buttons that don't
exist on your original remote.
An advanced addition to this method is to add a second
copy of a given device, but put that copy on a hidden
Main menu page. The benefit of this is that you can copy
and rearrange every button on that device, by macro-copying
them from the hidden device to the visible copy of that
device. With this method you can override every single
button on a device, without any learning. Yes, its complicated,
but this gives you the fullest flexibility possible to
your button layouts, and leverages the preprogrammed database.
I like your method. Doing it your way does not require another remote to copy back codes to the desired location on the R50/MX-450.
I prefer starting with preprogrammed codes since it usually gives me the correct hard keys. However, if a learned command refuses to override a preprogrammed command on a soft key, which these remotes will do at times, then your method has an advantage.
