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Post 1 made on Monday February 6, 2006 at 23:35
markypooh
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Normally my remote jobs have been only 1 RF kit, however the job i'm on now has 2 rooms using 2 RF units.

At present i have assigned all devices and properties to one RF code, all is good! but both rooms have 1 of the same devices, that is visable to the remote in either room.

How can I run 2 RF codes, 1 for eack room?

If I try to change the RF codes it doesn't work, i imagine it would have something to do with the system properties?

Anyone have any ideas???

Thanks Mark.
Post 2 made on Tuesday February 7, 2006 at 09:57
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Set the RF extender in room 1 to CH(0), ID(0) and the RF extender in room 2 to CH(0), ID(1) for example. In the editor for the remote make sure you have dedicated devices for each piece of equipment, preferably hidden IR code devices. For each of these devices simply set the channel and ID accordingly under the Device Properties -> RF tab. I use two RF extenders in my home as well. Works great!

(If you have identical equipment in each room you still need a dedicated device in your configuration file for each. This way you can set each to different RF ID's.)

Last edited by Lowpro on February 7, 2006 10:07.
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OP | Post 3 made on Tuesday February 7, 2006 at 18:37
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Lowpro,

Thank's for your advice, I have done that with seperate devices and all RF codes are set to each device, where it all screws up is in the Home pages and global hard buttons. It can't choose which RF code?
Once downloaded it's confused and screws everything??

Thank's
Post 4 made on Tuesday February 7, 2006 at 19:42
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Lowpro is correct. You need to make sure you have IR codes pages within each device. Then set each device (in which you require RF tranmission to the RF code you require. If one IR page needs to go to a different RF unit, then set codes appropriately.

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Post 5 made on Tuesday February 7, 2006 at 20:20
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On February 7, 2006 at 18:37, markypooh said...
Lowpro,

Thank's for your advice, I have done that with
seperate devices and all RF codes are set to each
device, where it all screws up is in the Home
pages and global hard buttons. It can't choose
which RF code?
Once downloaded it's confused and screws everything??

Thank's

It sounds to me like you are trying to use one GUI device in your remote to control that identical gear in each room. This won't work. You need to duplicate any GUI devices which are used to control that gear. The original set of devices buttons should be linked to the buttons under the hidden IR code device set to ID(0) for room 1 control. The duplicate set of devices buttons will be linked to the buttons under the hidden IR code device set to ID(1) for room 2 control. Lastly, you will need to add the ability to jump from room 1 control to room 2 control within the GUI layer of your configuration file.

As you have two rooms, each using RF extenders set to different ID's you need to make sure that you have dedicated IR codes devices for each piece of gear, not just your duplicated gear. This way you can set the RF tab for each device based on which RF extender is being used. In turn, the GUI devices (devices seen on-screen when using the remote) in your configuration file should only link to the hidden IR code device buttons. By doing so the RF tab settings for your GUI devices are completely ignored as those devices don't contain any hard or soft buttons with IR codes on them, only links to buttons in other devices containing IR codes. The device which contains the actual IR code is the device which governs how the IR is transmitted. That is key.

Last edited by Lowpro on February 7, 2006 23:21.
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Post 6 made on Tuesday February 7, 2006 at 20:21
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You will need two home pages, and you will not be able to use global hard buttons. Well, you actually could use the global buttons for one room, but have local buttons for each device in the other.
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