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MX-1000 improvement wish list
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Post 1 made on Sunday November 19, 2000 at 16:56
Jeff
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Ok after a couple of days playing with this remote here is a list of features I would love to see incorporated into it to make it better.

1. Timer functions
2. Ability to remove buttons on main page
3. Ambient Light sensor to control lighting so that
in low light situation when a button or touch
screen is activated would turn lighting on.
4. Either make the joy stick more forgiving or place
a guide on it to limit it movement to the required
activation locations.
5. Better PC software.

I know some of this is not possible without hardware upgrades but maybe some could be implemented in new operating software.

Other wise its a very good remote with above improvements it could be perfect.

Thank you for all the information and listening to my Ideas.

Jeff
OP | Post 2 made on Monday November 20, 2000 at 01:26
Daniel Tonks
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1) With the full date and time, this should have been there right off the bat!

2) Seems the 12 devices are hard-coded to the buttons. What we need is a "hide" function.

3) Not really needed (you wouldn't want to have to buy a second remote any ways). What we do need, and could be done on the hardware as is, is a setting to turn the backlight on whenever the screen is.

4) You should get used to it... but I agree more "forgiving" contacts should have been used. I do notice the "new" MX-1000 I have seems better in this regard than my "old" one.
OP | Post 3 made on Monday November 20, 2000 at 12:58
Carl
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I'd love to see the following changes in the software (and I'm not a computer techie, so I don't know how hard or feasible they would be):

1. STABILITY!!!

2. Integrate the button shape definitions, operating program, and learned functions into one file rather than three or four.

3. For each button, the software should store the learned function, and keep it when you move the button around.

4. Discrete codes!

5. Automatic importing of user-defined buttons in .bmp format.

6. The ability to open more than one layout at a time, and copy pages from one device to another, or from one open layout to another. This would facilitate, e.g., a layout which includes buttons for a DVD one likes, open that, and copy just the DVD pages & functions to your own layout.

7. Flexibility in the use of RAM. Daniel has pointed this one out, but if a user wants fewer devices, but more buttons, he/she should be able to hide the button from the main page, and delete the pages set aside for that device from the memory. Likewise, if a user wants five pages for one device, and only two for another, that too should be allowed.

I'm sure there are more, but these are the first ones which come to mind.

Cheers, Carl.
OP | Post 4 made on Monday November 20, 2000 at 15:04
Vanessa
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A fairly easy fix I found to "remove" device buttons from the main page was to create a button that was fairly small and just had a pixel or two in the corners. This way the button converter keeps the size of the button; the pixels make it so that in the software you can still see where the button is, but on the remote the button isn't really visable; by overlapping portions of these buttons I was able to put them down in the lower portion of the screen where they aren't in the way and I am still able to modify them if I need them in the future.
OP | Post 5 made on Monday November 20, 2000 at 18:39
tlight
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I'd just settle for the dang thing to work even remotely like it is supposed to... Mine won't even control one of my 6 devices.

Think I'll send it back and see about a replacement. Then I'll give up and get a Pronto or something.


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