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MX 880 - Question about FAV button
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Post 1 made on Saturday March 24, 2012 at 23:45
fonzanoon
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Ok so i've done a few 880's and for the most part I like what I'm able to accomplish with it in the time it takes to program.  Seems to work well in a lot of applications and most of my customers have been very happy with them.

My question is in regards to how the fav button is supposed to operate.  I did a job recently where I used page 1 of fav's for access to certain commands the customer wanted (I do not like using 2 pages within a source unless completely necessary) and then used pages 2,3,4 for actual fav channels.
The reason I did this is b/c the remote automatically tracked source status.  Wherever you were in the remote pressing fav gives you access to whatever and pressing fav again jumps you back to where you were.  Worked like a charm and the customer absolutely loved it.
Problem is, on the next 880 I did the fav button did not work that way.  Pressing fav would jump you into favs, but pressing again would not take you back to the source you were in before.

So is the fav button supposed to track sources like it did the 1st time or did I unknowingly do something to make that happen - I did not create any variables on that remote - 
Or did the 2nd remote not do what it was supposed to do? Could it have possibly been a firmware issue?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated, I'd love to know how it is supposed to work for sure, since now I'm totally confused!
Thanks
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Post 2 made on Monday March 26, 2012 at 21:28
Solobarik
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I don't have an 880 in front of me but my experience is pressing favs once will take you to page one of the favs, pressing it again is like navigate- on an 980. Did you hide the favs page in CCP on either remote? Can't think of anything else other than a bug.
OP | Post 3 made on Monday March 26, 2012 at 22:41
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The Fav page was not hidden on either remote, at least not page 1 or 2..  I haven't done another one since to see if it tracked where initiated from.  Guess I may have to wait til I get my hand on another to be sure.
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Post 4 made on Saturday May 5, 2012 at 22:21
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I'm having this same problem. The second press of FAV takes you back to page 1 of the favorites instead of back to the previous device. I don't know what I did, but this was working for a while, and then I made a change to my configuration and it quit.

The configuration is apparently corrupted. Starting over from a new, empty configuration restores the proper behavior of the FAV button.

If anyone has a better solution, please let me know.
Post 5 made on Thursday May 10, 2012 at 18:40
cji
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After much experimentation, I figured out what happened, at least in my case.

I had modified the FAVs "device" to punch through all the keys from the cable box.

It turns out if you punch through the Navigation keys from any other device onto the FAVs, then the FAV button itself also gets punched through, replacing the "go back" behavior with "go to page 1 of FAVs".


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