Thank you again......I really appreciate it. So, what should I set the delay at? Oh, here's another weird one, that also makes me think this thing is defective. Anyway, I pressed the watch tv activity today, which should have simply turned on the Directv receiver and the TV(just like it did without incident last night), and it would not turn the TV on, and the help button did not do anything. When I got to the question of "is the tv on now?" and I told it now, it would try again, and fail, and ask me this several times. I gave up and turned it on with the remote that does what it should........the one that doesn't cost $250 and came with my Directv receiver. Any idea why it would just not work like it should when it did last night? This isn't part of the other issues I've been having, so it's getting tiresome. This is something that WAS working.Thanks.