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Any tips for dealing with old Vizio TV?
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Post 1 made on Tuesday March 10, 2015 at 03:23
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I've got a 2007-era Vizio "GV" series TV (GV47LF). It does not have discrete power support. It also has an input system with multiple toggles - a button to index through HDMI, another for component, another (non-toggle) for the single VGA/RGB input. It's a giant assache.

Has anyone worked out a macro system for something like this? I'm thinking that I'll need a true/false variable for power, and then individual variables (was planning on integers) for the separate input list indexes.

The really frustrating part is that I want to replace the TV in another 3-6 months... but I'm sick of dealing with our failing Harmony 900. My only option is to work through this overly complicated macro setup just to get my URC in place temporarily, only to have to change it again after the new TV goes in. :P
Post 2 made on Tuesday March 10, 2015 at 08:19
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do you use only hdmi inputs?  you could put in an hdmi switcher for now and use a power tracking variable for the power commands.
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Post 3 made on Tuesday March 10, 2015 at 08:43
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I had to program an old vizio recently. For inputs I used a different input as an anchor and then then added the input command to toggle through.

For example, for hdmi 2, it looked like this:

Component

Hdmi

Hdmi

This worked well. I'd recommend a basestation to ensure the codes get to the tv correctly. Programming time was minimal.
OP | Post 4 made on Wednesday March 11, 2015 at 06:36
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I just discovered that anchoring works for the inputs, so that's what I'm doing. Didn't realize that it always indexed back to 1 on each of the inputs if you switch to a different one. I've been anchoring to VGA/"rgb" just because it's quicker to respond than Component in my experience (it instantly knows there is nothing live to sync with so throws a no-signal right away). A 0.2sec pause between commands seems to help too.

This will have a MRF-260 on it so line of sight won't be a problem.

99% of the usage is through HDMI 1 (Onkyo receiver doing HDMI switching), but it has an XBox 360 attached via VGA and a Wii on Component, so I want to make the inputs as bulletproof as possible.

Power is actually the larger concern, have a variable setup so hoping it doesn't get out of sync too much.

Everything is coming together pretty well now, as a first time user of CCP it's not too complicated once you wrap your head around "everything is a 'device'". :P
Post 5 made on Wednesday March 11, 2015 at 09:06
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If you use hdmi input most of the time then you can throw the hdmi input via anchor commands in your power off macro. Then you will not have to call for the hdmi input on the power on macro for those sources.
Post 6 made on Wednesday March 11, 2015 at 12:25
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Do yourself a favor and replace that TV. This time around be conscious of products that integrate well. You will enjoy the new television for the seamless control as well as the enhanced features that have come to market since 2007.
Post 7 made on Wednesday March 11, 2015 at 13:37
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Replacing with a tv with discreets will work best but using variables and anchors can certainly work. I wouldn't do it without a basestation though
OP | Post 8 made on Thursday March 12, 2015 at 05:26
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On March 11, 2015 at 12:25, Total Control Remotes said...
Do yourself a favor and replace that TV. This time around be conscious of products that integrate well. You will enjoy the new television for the seamless control as well as the enhanced features that have come to market since 2007.

It's on the list of stuff to be changed, per my earlier comments. Waiting for Samsung's non-curved quantum-dot screen to hit, and hopefully for the price to cool off relatively quickly since rumor has it the 85xx is going to start around $4k for a 65". >_<

I'm actually running into a different problem now, more logic/programming related than anything specific to the components.

I've setup all of the actual physical devices under the "Devices" hard key (lower left on the 1200). I'm going to setup "Activities" on what would normally be the "Main" button.

I have several touchscreen buttons to fire off the various activities.
My plan was to jump to a hidden page that contained the softkeys for the activity, but I just realized that a page jump doesn't allow me to have unique commands for the hardkeys. (Any other page below the same item in the tree shares the same hardkey commands, even if the screen/page changes.)

Instead of a hidden page, do I need to setup a separate hidden "activity device" for each activity, jump to the main page for that device, and then alias all of those hardkeys back to the original IR codes on each physical device? Is punch-thru from one device to another functionally identical to a macro alias? If so, is there any quick way to punch-thru a whole swath of hardkeys from one (fake/activity) device to another? I think it might be possible in the 5-step configuration wizard through the ribbon, but is there a quicker way?


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