I received my MX-1000 a few days ago and have become obsessed. I have visions of complete A/V system interconnectivity in which I leap from device to device with the press of but a single button, with all the various adjustments and input selections carried out seamlessly along the way. To that end, it would seem that the more macros available to each device, the better. And you need to able to have those macros leave you on a page of your own choosing. You don't want to have to press a couple of more buttons (main page followed by device selection) to get to your final destination after the macro has finished running.

So, the question is, how many macro buttons are available per device? It' mentioned several times in the documentation that there are a total of 60 favorite channel/general macro buttons available, but how are they allocated between devices? For instance, there seem to be 16 favorite channel buttons (FAV1, etc.) allocated to SAT, but there only appear to be 3 labeled K1, K2, K3?) in the VCR1 device. There seem to be 36 "K-type" buttons in the AUX device; are they all macro-capable? Can you move them where you want, both within a device and between them?

The second question deals with the funtionality of these "common" macros. They seem to execute the macro commands within and between devices with the same aplomb as one of the 3 system macro or 12 device macro buttons, but they ultimately finish on the same page that they started from. So, if I want a number of "hotkey" buttons on each device to instantly take me to another device and make all the setting changes along the way, I want to be able to finish on the home (1st) page of that destination-device. Is there a way to force these common macros to do this, as the system macros do? Seems to me that as long as they will execute a mininum of 12 or so commands, it would be far more useful to give them the same funtional capability as the precious and few system macros. That way, if you were using them as favorite channel buttons, you could always add a couple of more steps to the macro to get back to the original page where you started, if that's what you wanted. Is there a workaround that anybody knows of? A way to modify these common macro buttons to leave you on a specific page of a specific device of your choosing? If not, perhaps a software update from U.R.C. could address this issue?

On an unrelated question, is there any way you can swap page positions within a device? All the devices seem to have a keypad on page 1, and I'd like it to be on page 2 or 3. Simply being able to re-order pages would sure be a timesaver!

One final question: from those who have gone through the "learning curve" on the MXOP, is it preferable to try and relocate, move, and copy existing functional and favorite channel buttons, or just delete them and add new ones, relearning if necessary?

1. There are a total of 60 macros. You can split them up any way you like between devices, assigning them to ANY soft key. The "K1", "K2" etc. are just text labels. The shape of the button and its label can be anything and you can still assign a macro to it.

2. "Common" button macros (within devices) end on the same page - I don't know any way to change that.

3. You don't mention downloading from the software, so on the remote itself the only way to swap pages is moving key by key. If you use the software, you can open your model (mdl file) as a Microsoft access database. Then using MS Access, you can change the page names of all the keys and their associated text in the BUTTONTB and BUTTONTEXTTB data bases (for example from D02_CD1 to D02_CD2 where CD1 is page 1 and CD2 is page 2 of the CD device). You can view the revised model using the URC software to make sure it is ok, then download it to the remote. If you learned keys on these pages, they will probably be assigned to the wrong page, so you will have to relearn them. It is better to do this step before learning.

So far I have not figured out the password to the .mdl database in Access. Care to share?

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