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Controlling scrolling inputs with 2116?
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Post 1 made on Monday March 10, 2003 at 22:10
bpkengor
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All,

My new Samsung HDTV has an annoying characteristic. The inputs are selected with 2 buttons, each which scroll through several choices.

To switch from the TV tuner to the VCR composite input, I press the "TV/Video" button once on the supplied remote. To switch back, I have press the same button 4 times: passing the unused second composite input, the unused third composite input and the unused S-Video input.

To switch to the component input for the DVD player, I press a second "TV/Component" button. To switch back to the TV tuner, I have to press the same button 2 times, passing the unused second component input.

A big waste of keystrokes, imho. All of the great inputs on my new TV are now causing me to waste time accessing the 2 that I actually use.

I could automate this slightly by assigning keys with macros that scrolls from one mode to another mode while bypassing through the unused inputs. But that feels troublesome because the macro is only going to work properly if I am in the right source mode in the first place. The wrong choice will scroll too far or not far enough.

Ideally, I would like to somehow program my 2116 to know what input mode the TV is in and scroll appropriately to the desired input mode. One button to put me in DVD component input mode, no matter what. One button to put me in VCR composite input mode, no matter what. One button to put me back to the TV tuner, no matter what.

Am I smoking too much or could this be somehow managed with creative 2116 programming? I am guessing that this is really undoable because the 2116 can't really know what input mode the TV starts at. Agree or disagree?

I don't have my JP-1 cable yet but will soon.

Is my rambling making any sense to anyone? I'm probably not using descriptive terms here.
Post 2 made on Tuesday March 11, 2003 at 10:16
DanWanderer
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My TV does a similar thing, cycles through TV/Video 1/Video 2. BUT it always switches itself to TV tuner mode if you change channels. So my macro for VCR (on Video 1) is
TV;3;tv/video -- the 3 makes it switch to tuner, then it's one tv/video toggle to switch to Video 1.
If you're lucky, yours will do the same.
Post 3 made on Tuesday March 11, 2003 at 12:35
ofafan
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On 03/10/03 22:10, bpkengor said...
Ideally, I would like to somehow program my 2116
to know what input mode the TV is in and scroll
appropriately to the desired input mode. One
button to put me in DVD component input mode,
no matter what. One button to put me in VCR composite
input mode, no matter what. One button to put
me back to the TV tuner, no matter what.

If there are discrete codes for your device code, you could find them here: [Link: hifi-remote.com] Discrete codes, or advanced codes, are functions that are often not included in an original remote, but are understood by the device. You could give it a try. Good luck.


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