I am puzzled why on the MX-900 I can output both RF and IR where as on the MX-5000 (per CCP) I am unable to see a setting where I can have it output both IR and RF. Any idea how to enable RF+IR out on the MX-5000 if at all possible?
My problem is this: I want to make the voume control on my receiver updated via IR, where as the rest of the functions I want them to go through the MSC-400 (via RF)

Has anyone found a work-around for this limitation? I have a TV that is pretty far away from the MSC-400 but the HD distibrution system sends its output to the TV. So, with the MX-980 I simply selected RF+IR. Pressing any source button would send an IR "Power On" to the TV and then send an RF command to run a macro in the MSC-400 pair that would perform all the switching of inputs/outputs in the distribution boxes. Pretty transparent with the MX-980 but I can't seem to figure it out with the MX-5000 since I can't find a way to send RF and IR from the same menu.

Volume control works properly with each device because I have the punch through setup for the TV volume control on all of the other devices.

I wonder if I could make an MX-5000 macro that would access the TV page for power on/off on the main page? Punch through won't work but maybe there is a way to run from the TV's remote pages. Hmmm...

Thanks for any suggestions.

OK, writing the question down made me think about this some more.

One answer to my question is to use the "Alias" macro command. The Alias commands basically presses a button on a different page. For instance, the Alias command that solved my problem was "ALIAS [52" Sharp/Power/power on]". This basically goes to the 52" Sharp's power page and presses the power on button (virtually since you don't see the actual page). Since that page is setup for IR, the power on command goes out by IR even though the page I hit the button with is set on "RF".

I'm using the macro record button to create the alias command. Is there a better way of creating the alias command? Is there a better way of doing the IR+RF on the MX-5000?

Why the complexity.
Just include an IR command from the IR database when you run your macro?
You essential run your trigger to the msc-400 and an IR command in the same macro.
Just add it to the macro for each of your activities.
-Go to the IR database icon in the macro
-select IR data from TV
-Select your brand
-select your model
-select Power on

Done!!!!

Thanks for the reply. I think that is what I was doing (before using the Alias command) but it wouldn't work because the MX-5000 doesn't have an IR + RF option. So, if I set the page to RF, the TV command went out RF (rather than IR) and if I set it to IR then the TV works but the macros don't work because they go out IR instead of RF.

With the old MX-980, it was easy because I set to "RF+IR", grab the IR from the database (as you said) which would go out IR to the TV and then the command to the MSC-400 would go out RF - all in the same MX-980 macro.

I'm thinking I'm missing something in your reply that gets around the limitation. Could you please explain a bit more?

You're right!

Not a feature I use in my set-up.
I presumed adding a programmed IR code in a macro would work on an RF page.
Another feature that should be fixed in CCP?

I guess the way you are doing it is the only work around!

Thanks for double-checking me. You're right - I also wish the "RF + IR" could be added to CCP for the MX-5000.

How do you set a page to IR and the device to RF? not sure I understand.

I think you need to create a 2nd device for the TV and set it to IR only. Then you can alias commands from it in any macro and it will send it out IR. You can leave the RF TV device if needed as well. :)