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More suggestions for the upcoming software
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Post 1 made on Thursday December 10, 1998 at 19:35
Ivan Luk
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In addition to what's been covered in other requests/posts, I'd like to add some suggestions to the forthcoming Pronto software.

1. There should be an easy way to "repeat" buttons in macros instead of having to press it x (e.g. 15) times, and have x entries for "volume +". Something like a label that says "repeat x times with y delay."

2. In addition to the above, it would be nice to be able to specify a minimum length of time any signal is transmitted when a button is pressed.

3. A way to disseminate/break apart a multi-coded IR signal and assign parts of it to different buttons.

For example, I have a Faroudja Line Doubler remote that is RC-5 compatible. It has one button for power on the remote. The remote actually sends out two IR codes--on and off. The Doubler figures out the state it's in, and turns itself on or off.

As is, the only way I got the Pronto (same thing with my old RC-2000) to "learn" the command properly was to experiment with shielding the IR transmitter, etc. This took a good hour of experimentation before I got it to work reliably. So now, I have both a button for on, and one for off. It should NEVER be this difficult.

In relation to the issue with the Faroudja remote, there were more problems that I managed to work around. Suffice to say, it all has to do with the ability/inability of the Pronto software to learn/breakdown multiple IR codes from a single button.

That's it for now. Then again, I've only had the Pronto for four days! :-)
OP | Post 2 made on Thursday December 10, 1998 at 19:59
JACK SCHULTZ
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Ivan,
Suffice it to say that while I am familiar with Faroudja, I don't have one of their remotes to play with. I can advise though that in my testing of the software and teaching it Meridian codes, Meridian too uses the RC-5 codeset. When the codes were learned, the software displayed the actual RC-5 codes by the numbers. So, if Faroudja will document to you which codes they are using, you will be able to simply plug them in accordingly on screen. As far as "streaming" codes, I haven't yet encountered a device sending streams so I can't provide clear cut facts as to how this would display. My guess is that the Pronto may see the stream with the start and end bits and list them line by line accordingly. As far as the minimum length ( I assume repeats of same signal) this can be done via duping the signal on screen also.

The fact that the Pronto "learned" the code and saw it/logged it as a valid RC-5 was in itself very good I thought. I also tried to introduce noise during learning and found that Pronto stored the signal but DID NOT identify it as an RC-5, which would tell me that there is a reasonable level of intelligence involved in the storage process.
OP | Post 3 made on Thursday December 10, 1998 at 20:44
George Mills
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I have a cool software Idea.

"Dual" Macro's.

Assign two Macro streams to one button.
Have it alternate between the two Macro streams for each push.

This way you can have one button (Do and Undo)
what your macro does. Like Pause and Lights On paired with Lights off and Play.

OP | Post 4 made on Thursday December 10, 1998 at 22:46
Ivan Luk
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Hi Jack!

Well, the Pronto didn't tell me it was an RC-5 code, and Faroudja hadn't told me what the codes were--only that they were using RC-5. The tech I talked to said that they'd encountered my exact problem before, and he himself had to experiment and document the sequence to teach other universal remotes using Faroudja's. He is hoping to get his hands on a Pronto soon to try this for himself.

As for the repeating the signal via duping, the point is not to cluter up the macro sequence with 15 vol+ for example, that you'd have to scroll through. Plus the real control comes if we could control the LENGTH of time a signal is transmited.

One problem right now is figuring out why the X10 IR controls for dim/brighten won't repeat, and is difficult to teach.

Either way, it sounds like the software will do a lot. I wonder how everyone's going to get the special serial cable required?

George: Great idea with the "dual" macros!
OP | Post 5 made on Thursday December 10, 1998 at 23:18
Phil
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Yeah nice the dual-macro idea. I'd still like to see the pronto turning the system on, start playing a cd and turn volume to the max to wake up all neighbourhood around in the morning :)
OP | Post 6 made on Friday December 18, 1998 at 02:26
scott
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Here's an idea...

Have one macro call another. That way you can create a template macro that all the other macros can use.

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