(NOTE: I wrote this earlier, but I had net
trouble which prevented me from sending it until
now. Despite the fact that the question has
already been answered, I'm sending this anyway.
BTW, it's www.starbase314.com, not 13.)

Mike,

>Could someone explain what a discrete code is
>vs. an advanced code?

When you press a button on any remote control, it
sends a number, identifying that button, to the
device it is supposed to control. It sends this
in an infra-red protocol specific to the device
in question.

An advanced code is a way of telling your OFA
remote to send a specific number to the device,
in the device's own protocol. You could send the
number for play, or you could send the number for
power on/off, or any other number.

On many devices there are functions which can be
activated this way which do NOT appear on the
original remote which came with the device. For
instance, most original device remotes have a
power on/off button, but almost none have
seperate power on and power off buttons, yet many
devices can be told to either power on OR power
off with advanced codes. Such codes are called
discrete power on and discrete power off codes.

Discrete codes, be they for power or input
selection or something else, are useful when
creating macros. For instance, using discrete
power codes, one can make a macro that turns off
all the devices in their home theater setup.
Without discrete power off codes, that same macro
would turn off the devices that were on, and,
unfortunately, turn on the ones that were already
off, requiring the user to turn those devices off
again, negating the usefulness of a power off
macro. Hence the usefulness of discrete codes.

Does this clear things up for you?

-=Ingenious=-