I am stumped and hope some of the URC experts can help - often times, while watching a Blu-Ray Movie or Tivo or whatever, I will jump around to do some tweaking on various devices - Projector, Receiver, Lights, etc. I do this via a Press-HOld macro, so that my wife can't get to it and it doesn't take up one of her precious buttons :)

Anyway, sometimes, I will go deep into a device (eg page 12 on the receiver) to make a change, and I am wondering if there's a way to easily tell a button on the MX-950 to jump back to the main page of a particular activity. The trick is that I access the same device pages from multiple activities - for example, whether I'm watching something on Blu-Ray or HD-DVD or Tivo 1 or Tivo 2 or Apple TV or Media Server or whatever, I will often want to tweak the projector to adjust overscan or vertical shift or the receiver to adjust listening area, etc. I would like to have a single button that was intelligent enough to go back to the beginning, kinda like the Navigate- jump function, but not just one page back....I want it to jump back to the beginning of the 'activity'.

Any thoughts on how to accomplish this besides recreating all of the device pages for each activity?

Uh.....


Well how about a "go to".....


Nah, wouldn't want to do that.....

I had a feeling this would be difficult to explain in a post - A 'go to' would only work if I knew where the user was coming from - I could easily say 'go to Tivo' on page 12 of the receiver, but what if I was coming from the Blu-Ray activity? I could put 'go to' buttons for every single activity that I've set up on every single device page - but that would take up most of the soft buttons on a page and seems a bit redundant. What I'm trying to do is implement a 'jump' command, very similar to 'Navigate +/-' - the only difference is I would want it to 'jump' to the beginning of the activity I just left, rather than simply going one page back.

To be ultra-clear - I want to use a single button/macro that will jump back to page 1 of whatever activity I was on prior to diving into the device pages. If I was watching an HD-DVD, I want this button to jump back to HD-DVD...if I was watching Tivo 1, I want this exact same button to jump back to page 1 of Tivo 1 when clicked from deep within a device configuration page.

Make sense? I think I might be able to do this with variables, but haven't gotten my head quite around it yet.

This may have answered my question:

[Link: remotecentral.com]

I wonder if anyone here knows what the Page -/+ functionality does with the MX-950 - I haven't tried it yet, but I wonder if it does this already? I know navigate goes back or forward one page...

I have an MX-900 and therefore, no variables, but here are a couple of solutions:

1) have a separate "Page 1" that is nothing but page jumps. So if I want to go to my "Lights" control, when I am finished I press a button and go back to a page that look exactly like my "Page 1" except all it does is page jumps. Yes, it is an extra step, but it works.

2) A second option would be to build separate Page 1's for each device you control (projector, receiver etc.) and have it as your last page for each device. The all you have to do is page to your last page and press the activity you want to return to.

Lawder,
Yes, you can do this on the 950, using variables. Download my 950 config file from this site and take a look - I do exactly the same thing to jump back to an activity from lighting control, or from audio/picture tweaking. I don't use the nav+/- or page +/-, just nested macros and goto pages. I think the theory is explained fairly clearly in my post that you linked to, but please post back if it's unclear.

Good luck,
Neil

Thanks Neil - i'm traveling at the moment but will give this a shot when I get home...

One question - in playing around with the editor last night, I noticed that I could not nest macros (using the macro record function) from one soft button to another...I had to nest using a variable macro from a hard button...a bug, maybe?

Lawder,
When you say the "macro record" function, you mean the red record button, right, not the "import macro" function? I've not run into any problems nesting macros that are on soft buttons (all my variables for activity tracking are on soft buttons). Perhaps I'm not clear on the problem you're having - I'm sure you'll explain further once you get home.


-Neil