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890 - how to add a a macro?
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Post 16 made on Thursday December 7, 2006 at 05:10
Boydie
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[quote]You have to use RAW mode.[/quote]

AKIRBY

Could you explain this a little for me

Are you saying that it IS possible if you use RAW mode?? - if so could you please also explain what RAW mode is and how I could do this ;-)

JS5752...

[quote]Boydie,

I don't think that method would work. I've noticed that when my Harmony learns a remote code, it doesn't appear to catch multiple presses. I've tried without a macro based remote to just hit a few buttons to accomplish something, and it just says that there was an error receiving the code.

-Jeff
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Jeff

I know that what you describe won't work as this is the usual way to programme macros and as we all know the Harmony does not support macros (apart from some discontinued models)

HOWEVER - what I had read was that if you "Learn" a macro that has apready been programmed in another remote the Harmony will learn this as a single command and it was reported that this works

As I have said I have not yet tried this so if anyone has actually tried this exact method I would love to know - which is also why I want to understand this "RAW mode" ??

I really do hope this does work as the extra expense on a cheap remote to enable macro functionality would be AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
Post 17 made on Thursday December 7, 2006 at 08:57
akirby
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When you go to the screen to learn commands I think there is a button at the bottom called Custom. This will allow you to select RAW mode when learning. RAW means the command is taken as is from the other remote. Normally the software takes the command it sees from the other remote and compares it to the database, then selects the right database entry so that the commands are as standard as possible. RAW mode circumvents that and is necessary sometimes, especially if you're trying to learn a string of commands.
Post 18 made on Thursday December 7, 2006 at 09:46
js5752
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Wow, that's cool. I didn't even realize there was a "RAW" learning mode. Now i might have to get another remote, just to play with things a bit.

-Jeff
Post 19 made on Thursday December 7, 2006 at 15:58
Boydie
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Thanks AKIRBY

Please let us know how you get on JEFF - I would love to know if this works or not!
OP | Post 20 made on Sunday December 10, 2006 at 02:58
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Me too. I would love to know if this works. And, if so what was the universal remote control that was used. I would love to get this working with Harmony Remote Control.

thanks,
Osho
Post 21 made on Friday January 5, 2007 at 11:11
iguru42
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I tried to add the 30 second skip to my 676 last night with RAW and I ALMOST had it. I actually got SPS30 to work so I was just missing the last select. So I kept trying and overwrote that one and I haven't ever gotten that close again. Usually it only picks up 2 -3 commands.

ah well.
Post 22 made on Friday January 5, 2007 at 11:52
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Teaching a single button macro using RAW mode with 2 learning remotes works very well. I have 2 harmony remotes (659 & 680). With one remote, I created a sequence of commands using the Start of activity macro feature. I then blasted this sequence to the other remote which learnt it as a single command. You must teach it in RAW mode. It will ask you to do it twice to confirm. It's this requirement that makes the manual method impractical. So far my longest sequence is 8 commands which last about 3 seconds. Another user managed a sequence of 11 commands using his old "glued together" learning remote to blast his new harmony 520.
H659, H680, SA8300HD, TH-50PZ850, AVR-X4000
OP | Post 23 made on Thursday January 25, 2007 at 02:28
oshogg
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So, looks like there was some success programming 890 with a macro using RAW mode.

Can someone please write-up a short description of how to do this, specifically

- what universal remote control was used
- how it was programmed
- how to program 890 using that


A small "how-to" to help out the fellow harmony RCers would be highly appreciated :)

thanks,
Osho
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