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MX-810 and Yamaha RX-V3800
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Post 16 made on Wednesday December 9, 2009 at 17:26
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I am confused, why would you email it to yourself? If you want to work with codes in your current file in the universal browser you can just save and open it up in the browser. I don't think it needs to have a different name.

But won't he have the same problem with an mx-880? That being that the code database has multiple specialized devices for his receiver. Either way he is going to have to combine the devices. It may be done more efficiently in the other editors but the general concept is still the same.

Plus, in the mx-880 he is going to lose power state tracking and the help menu. I certainly understand why someone who had to program these one a regular basis would not want to use the MX-810 software but really it is pretty nice for someone who wants a wizard based approach and has a fairly simple setup.

He's got devices which should all have discretes, and/or very simple work arounds so state tracking is not neccessary, The 880 you can drag and drop specific codes from each receiver database onto 1 device versus having to have 2 receivers (or more then one of any device) on the remote...which can get into all kinds of annoy problems when actually using it. Editing the macros is much easier and you can do independant page jumps (alone worth the upgraded cost) from a usuability standpoint. The reason to email it and save it under a different name is the 810 does not have a save as function so you need a seperate copy to use as your 'master code remote' to pull just the codes you need/want onto the final remote.

Additonally I've run into issues where its really nice to have a seperate back up file as you make progress through the programming as it runs into some similar to a cached memory overload whereby too much programming corrupts the current file and you need to revert back (or save and close often, as save alone will not prevent loosing the programming session work)

Finally one last thing to make sure of once you have your final program is make a safe back up of the file (on a thumbdrive or other secondary hard drive, email file, or cd/dvd hard copy) as you can not upload programming from it from the remote and if your normal copy of your program disappears you need to start from scratch (one other reason the 880 is well worth the extra $100)
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Post 17 made on Thursday December 10, 2009 at 00:36
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Mister House, here's the approach I used when programming the 810 with the Yam 3xxx. You will need to have multiple devices in order to be able to copy/paste the codes you need...so you will likely need the main and the one marked net/pc or whatever the current naming scheme is. I seem to remember needed another one for some of the sound fields. When programming the activities, you'll use the "main" device for most everything because that's where all the commands/buttons you need reside for those activities. For the "PC/Internet" activity you'll use the net/pc device because it contains most of the commands/buttons. Copy the commands you need from the main onto the net/pc device....such as volume up, down, mute. Create your activities. By the way, the OEM remote is a bit of a PITA in the same way as I recall. I'm doing other receivers now, but I seem to remember a lot of the keys on the OEM being multifunctional. I had to press "net" first in order to get the key to execute the corresponding "net" command....like the "alt" or "func" on a blackberry. Not a knock on Yamaha, just pointing out that you really want the 810 to function BETTER than the OEM remote, not the same, if/when possible. Hope this helps.
OP | Post 18 made on Sunday December 20, 2009 at 19:07
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Does anyone want to make a .wzr file for me and email it to me. I am totally lost. Is there a way to "learn" every button?
Post 19 made on Monday December 21, 2009 at 04:23
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unless you're paying us for a couple hours of time its unlikely any of us would want to open that program. Yes you can learn all the buttons...however you learn them as device codes (not Activity codes), and then have to copy paste, and or transfer over etc. as was described above. if you do get to the point of paying someone to program it (if you can still return it you really should - and get an 880 or 980), if its too late for that I'm very sorry for you, and wish you lots of luck.
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