I have a simple macro that shuts all components off on my system when I press the off button. However, unless someone presses the watch button, the macro does not work correctly when pressing the off button. Most times, the sat tv menu is being used. I tried to put in a Goto Watch Page 1 as the first step in the Macro, but it does not work. Any ideas.

Yeah. I just programmed my first MX900 today (have done lots of other brands and about three URCs before). I put the OFF macro on the OFF button of the WATCH page. I would say that, since you have a main OFF button, you don't need any device commands on the OFF button anywhere except on the WATCH page. So put a macro on the OFF button of each device that turns off the system and then flips to the WATCH page.

Is your off macro exactly the same on every page?

For your macro, hit record, then choose the Watch: Off button. The green M won't be there when you select the button in the macro, but it will work fine.

This is what I did as well, and it's working out just fine. I also did this on our MX-850 (instead of having to press "MAIN" and then "OFF").

Cant you just punch through the watch Power on/off to any device you want?

Puch through
select all.
Power on,off Select Watch.

Yea, but not everybody likes to have the off AND on buttons punched through. I find it pointless to have a system on macro on the dvd page, for instance. I usually keep the device toggle power button on the on button, and do a macro as I stated above for the off button.

Are you asking me? My answer is yes. You asked this one minute after I posted, so maybe you were typing while I was typing and are responding to Rdgwalker...a name would have made it clear.

I hadn't thought of using punch through.
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You're kidding! You can't separately punch through the ON and the OFF buttons? I haven't looked at doing this, so I don't know. Sorry, but you could have a device ON discrete command on each page, but use the method I outlined above to turn things off...but only if you punch through only the OFF, or if you create identical macros for each OFF button.

Yea I've metioned to Jeff the idea of splitting the On/Off punch through. Basically, as in the MX850 where you would just do a shortcut to the Main: Off button, if you do a one step macro, and just call the off button, it does the same thing as the MX850 shortcut.

The problem with importing the macro to every off button on the remote, is that if you make one change to your off macro, you need to re-import the macro to every button. It's simpler, imho, to just do your off macro on the main watch page, and then record a 1 step macro to call the watch: off macro on all the device pages.

How do you call a macro with the MX-900 editor?

You can do a punch through just on the off.

But sometimes you don't want to.

I have a TOAD (Toshiba A1), so on its Page, the OFF button just turns it off and returns to the main page. If OFF were punched through, then if the A1 was off, the OFF command would turn it on.

!@#$ you Toshiba. Why didn't you do discretes?

I NEVER put or keep individual power commands on the on/off buttons.

my on macro is the same as the activity watch "TV" or "Cable" or "SAT" punched thru to all.

OFF is a system off punched thru to all.

This way when the remote is picked up and on in pressed instead of "CABLE", it turns the system on and user begins watching cable. When they want to switch, hit watch and select DVD, FM, whaterever else is listen

For off, its a full system off regardless of where there user is.

This approach is simple and very intuitive.

What if you have TOAD's? The 900 doesn't have variables.

I dont sell toads BUT there are work arounds. DVD player type TOADs, Play - pause - power. Same with VCR. Cable boxes get left on typically.

The TOAD issue is why you should always seek out gear that is easy to control. combo players SUCKbut can be made to work somewhat.