Hi

I just received my 885 today, and I have a problem with the left and right direction buttons (surrounding the ok button).
I want to turn up the volume on my Denon surround receiver by pressing right arrow and volume down by pressing left arrow, but I just can't get it to work.

Can you guys tell me what i'm doing wrong?
Or is it just not possible to allocate the left/down/right/up buttons??

You can set the directional buttons to any IR command you like. Go to the Activity options and select Change behavior of buttons. There you can reassign any button (almost) to any command from all of the devices for that activity.

But that begs the question - why do you want to use those buttons and not the volume +/- buttons? Sounds like you're not using activities properly.

Each activity is a unique set of devices and settings/inputs. So if you watch TV with and without the receiver, set up 2 activities - one with the receiver device and one without. Then you tell it you use the receiver for volume control in one activity and the tv volume in the other activity and in both cases the volume buttons will work properly.

Hi

it is my girlfriend that wants the volume to be on the left and rigth buttons, because channel up/down is on the up/down arrow buttons. So she wants it to be gathered in one place around the ok button for ease of use.

And I have tried to change the button setup so that when I press for example right button then the receiver should turn up the volume but no response. If I then put it back to the original volume buttons it works fine, so I'm puzzled as to why it just doesn't work if I put the volume up command on the right arrow button???

Could it somehow be interfering with something? Or maybe that the left/right buttons just can't be used for volume control? (which sounds odd as they state that every button can be configured in whatever way you would like it)

Are you updating the buttons for the Device or the Activity? They're totally different.

Go into Device mode for the receiver and find the volume up/down commands and verify they work. Remember the names.

Go into the website, under the correct Activity and select "change behavior of buttons". Find the left and right directional buttons on the left and select the correct volume commands from the receiver column.

Or get a new girlfriend that uses the channel and volume commands that are already labeled. :-)

hehe, good point :)

thanks anyway, i'll give this a try

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