I'm programming a macro in my remote (an MX 3000) to play dvds with my Pioneer DV 59.

If I 'manually' push stop twice and then play on the remote the player will skip the menu screen, previews, etc. and will play the 'feature'. For some reason, however, I'm unable to program this into a macro. The player does not proceed past the menu. I think it may have to do with setting delay times between the 'steps' in the macro, but after trying it with different delays I still have not had any luck.

Any suggestions??

Thanks.

rosariorose9

If the commands function on the MX-3000 when you press them manually, they should certaonly work in a macro. Set the delay time between each command to 1 sec.

Create the following macro on a BLANK button with no commands on it. You only want the macro on this button.

1) stop
2) 1 sec delay
3) stop
4) 1 sec delay
5) play

That should work.



Thank you,
Damon DG
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Well, after hours and hours of unsuccessfully fiddling with delays between the commands, I FINALLY got it to work - thanks in large part to your suggestion that I create a separate button.

Not sure what you meant by making the button blank, or that the button have no commands on it, but creating a separate button with only the stop/stop/play aliases as the macro on the button (rather than having it as part of a larger macro) worked. Not sure why separating it out as its own macro did the trick, but it did - and many hours of frustration are finally rewarded.

Thanks again.

rosariorose9

You can do a delay at the end of the first macro and then alias to the new button you created.

I suspect the delay before the first stop command was not long enough to allow the DVD player to be prepared to take the first stop command. Try doing the delay exactly as long as it takes to navigate and activate the new button you created manually.

Ken

Glad it worked for you...well the idea. :)



Thank you,
Damon DG
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Ken,

As soon as I get everything working EXACTLY as it should, I'll try your suggestion. In the meantime, I don't want to introduce another 'variable' (inside joke....) into the mix.

rosariorose9