On February 29, 2008 at 09:58, akirby said...
First you have to figure out once and for all whether
you have discrete power buttons or a toggle.
Jlet already told you how to check it - go into device
mode and see if the discrete power commands work that
way. If they do, then pressing poweron will turn the
tv on and pressing it again won't do anything. Same with
poweroff - first time powers the tv off subsequent presses
don't do anything. If this doesn't work then you have
a power toggle - one button that turns it off and on.
Make sure the TV device power settings are correct before
doing anything else.
The answer to whether the TV will turn back on after it's
manually turned off depends on whether you have discrete
power buttons or not. If you do, then when you switch
activities the harmony will resend the powerON command
(because it won't hurt anything). If you don't and you
only have a power toggle then it won't resend the power
toggle command because under normal circumstances that
would turn the TV OFF. That's the smartstate technology.
Remember - the remote doesn't read minds. It doesn't
know anything that you do manually or with a different
remote. It also doesn't track manual device commands.
It knows what it turned on and off via the activities.
If you do anything outside of that it will be out of
sync.
You have 2 options: hide the OEM remotes from your wife,
or just use the HELP button when they get out of sync.
It will ask questions such as "Is the TV on?" and when
you say NO it will resend the power command, turn it on
and that also resets the smartstate.
The 3rd option is to get a new wife, but that's usually
very expensive, so I'd try the first 2.
Thanks for your help! Couple things..........I went into the TV device mode,and power on and power off both work as discrete power commands. Funny thing is, I tried the toggle, just for fun, and that also worked.........is that normal, or should it be one or the other? Lastly, the issue with turning off a device with an oem remote will screw up the next activity, if it involves the same device, and that is also normal, correct? Well, I'm not getting a new wife.........not yet anyway haha, and hiding the oem remote won't work out well, so it's down to the help button here and there until I straighten her out(lol), right? Nothing sounds defective about it, does it? Reason I ask is I only have a few days until they won't just hand me a new remote at circuit city. Thanks.
