Thinking about picking one up, but need to know the following:

Is there anything on NEVO SL that keeps track of commands? In other words, how would I do the following command :

- Create a butten "Watch Movie"
- Create a Macro that delays 25 seconds while the projecter is warming up, then changes the input and turns on al the compnents, etc..
- bring you to the control page

- If the projector is on and I hit the same button, it will not go through the warm up routine and just change the inputs if needed, or takes you to the control page.

In know that URC has variables that accomplish this, and RTI has flags and power sensing. Does NEVO have an conventions to accomplish this ?

Thanks

it's no problem at all, you'd simply install a 25 second delay between 'POWER' and "INPUT'. At the end, a jump to the control page will get you where you want to be.

I don't think you understood my question, how do you do it so that it doesn't warm up every time you press it?

You could create two pages that contain the "Watch Movie" activity, one with the 25 secs delay, one without. Unfortunately, since you can't program the hard button you wouldn't be able to access the two different pages via the Home hard key. A way round this could be to have the "Watch Movie" activity with the 25 sec delay on the Home page and create another button that jumps to activities you perform when the projector is already on.

I use an overall startup page which powers everything on. It contains things such as Watch TV, Watch TiVo, Watch DVD, etc. Inside one of these macros, I'd put the warmup delay.

Once I have gone through the initial power up and want to switch sources, I've put the exact same shortcut bar at the top of every device page. Inside the macros used by these shortcut icons, I'd drop the 25 sec warmup.

When I power off at night, the last thing within the powerup macro is a jump back to the startup screen (which DOES contain your delay) for the next time you need to startup.

Chris

2 macro buttons, one with the warm up delay and one without. my TV takes a variable amount of time to warm up so instead i have my "system on" macro which powers on my TV, Amp and cable box, and leaves me on my main home page. once my TV has warmed up i press the appropriate activity macro.

Thanks all for explaining ways to program around the lack of varibles, and/or flags. However the question was actually about whether or not the NevoSL has methods to track pervious made commands. I could assume the responses would indicate no, but a direct answer would be appreciated.

Does it??

Yes or No?

thanks

No.

All those ideas are great. However I live in a house where guests are constantly coming and going. A way to make it a bit more intuitive (and not have every single person who picks up your remote asks you how to do what... a question/answer format is probably the best bet.

There would be one activity button, let's say "WATCH A DVD". The user will press that button and a menu with a yes/no button asking if the DVD player is on or off. The person selects no, the lengthy process beings of warming up, starting up, etc. Yes would bring you right to the page. You could incorporate some simple question and answer buttons to get around the lack of tracking power.

Lack of tracking.. discrets... thats the work around.

Even if the Nevo kept track of variables such as the last status transmitted, it still wouldn't be perfect coz my kids would have turned a device on/off manually in-between using the remote. Also, on several bits of my kit, the on/off command is the same so if the device is already on and I use a macro like 'watch DVD', it turns the amp off because it was previously being used to listen to music.

Utopia would be for the remote to interrogate the device to establish its state. Then you could include all sorts of if..then commands into the remote control's programming.

Does this exist anywhere on any home theatre kit?

stindig

Just what gear is it? Maybe if you told us that then we could tell you how to set it up.

On a small scale RTI can handle it, on a grand scale AMX or Crestron.

Primare DVD25 DVD player, Primare SPA20 processor + amp, Pioneer DVR433H HD recorder, SONY TV KVX2982U, NTL cable (Pace DITV1000)

I still fail to see how you can write macros when you don't know the state of what you are trying to control. I await to be proven wrong (hopefully).

stindig

The best way to program this situation is with a question and answer. For example ask the user what state something is in then base the macro on the answer (seperate Y/N buttons.
I don't like doing this, but it works well with Pronto. Even with variables/tracking it comes in handy. For example, if you put a CD in BEFORE you hit 'play CD' it will try to power on (if it's a toggle) even though it's on already and power off. Most SONY cd players have toggle power. By asking "Did you power on the device by putting a CD in? " will work much better than telling eveyrone in the house to power up first.

VB