Is there any way to get around the limitation of 1 IR code per button? This makes programming channel macros very tedious.

thanks for any suggestions/info,

-- N

You'll have more work trying to learn the IR codes to a button over and over even if it was possible to do!


It is much simpler to take and layout a page with all the numbers, learn them ONCE, and then just link them to make a macro, thus saving time and the memory that the relearned IR codes would consume on the remote!

I use a dvd changer with 300 macro's alone, I could just imagine how much memory would of been used to learn the codes 300x for 2 & 3 buttons each!

-steve

Hi Allamand,

Actually, that's not what I'm talking about:


Whith the Pronto, when you specify the hardware type (ie, a cable box), there are several IR codes that you get "for free", that you *don't* have to learn. The limitation I'm referring to is that you can't assign more than one of these IR actions to a single button.

I'm certainly not saying I want to have a single button "learn" more than 1 command. In fact, what I'm talking about here doesn't involve any learning whatsoever.

Having to link commands take *many* clicks for a single command. But specifying an IR code, however, is just 1-2 clicks at most. This is a huge work savings over lnking commands, which require you to navigate through menus to the page on which the button exists to make the link. Additionally, this also requires you to have an extra page of buttons which you may not want to have in the first place.

I'm just wondering if this limitation has been removed or will be removed in the near future. Linking instead of selecting already known IR codes works, but is a lot more tedious.

-- N

I think what Steve is saying is that no matter how you enter the codes, it is easier to use alias for macros then reentering the codes. What would happen if you change TV? your way would mean that you need to redo all macros. Steve's way would mean relearning (or using the UDB) on ten buttons.

That's definitely true; I see how it's a better long term approach, though it still seems like a limitation to me that should at some point be corrected.

Well, it looks like I need to go back and reprogram the channel macros I just created :(

Thanks for the thoughts, Steve and Anthony.

-- N

True to what Anthony said. I have used the Pronto software very little. As much to rip out th Bitmaps I needed. I know the software between the two are really different, as I looked over the Pronto's and was lost. I spent many hours learning the NeoEdit, and think I'm lost now to the Pronto :)

Why Philips didn't leave it the same I have no idea!
But as stated, at least for me, When I reorder my 300 plus DVD's, its just a matter of changing the name on the buttons, and that is fun enough!

-steve