Well, I had a thought that maybe the code would act different in a macro than just on a learned button alone. It does but doesn't act as expected.

Both of your versions increase vol 1 db when used in a macro.

I modified both further and neither still changes vol more than 1 db:
For version 1, if I add 4 additional copies of the green and change the red # from 002A to 0032 (an additional 8) I still get a 1 db vol change in a macro.

For version 2, if I add 2 additional copies of the green and change the blue # from 0006 to 000A (an additional 4) it also gives a 1 db vol change in a macro.

Your version is better than the original 0.5 db change. I could add the button the the macro 3 times like I did before but it sure would be nice if 1 iteration of the code could change the vol + by 3 db. Any other ideas?