I have a MSC-400 which was installed a few years ago and configured with some old version of the MSC editorprogram. I need to rework the whole system. I created a "new" MSC-400 in CCP in "House Designer". After some work I created a bunch of smart macro groups, and tried to download the created configuration to MSC. No way. CCP does not download anything.

I uploaded the existing configuration from the MSC to the CCP. It created ANOTHER MSC-400. I can modify the configuration of this "new" MSC, and download it back to the device. I was able to import devices from my initial MSC to the "new" one, but not the smart macros.

Questions:

Why can't I download my freshly created MSC configuration into the device, but can download a configuration which was uploaded? Is there are some parameters which can be tweaked to make this download possible? Or factory-default reset?

If it is impossible to upload a newly created configuration into a device which was configured earlier, is there a way to copy groups of smart macros from one instance of this device (undownloadable) to another? I hate to manually re-program all the macros (I spent two days making them).

I found the root of the problem... some smart macros generated automatically for one of attached devices had some sort of a problem, and CCP parser found the errors and stop the download....

This once again shows the huge disadvantage of the URC approach -- these guys consider installers total idiots, and develop programming applications which do not allow people use normal programming methods -- only "drag and drop" and so. But since writing complex programming framework is a huge task, they omit a lot of disgnostics, leaving people in the dark.

Indeed, I think URC is at the brink of total loss of the market. Philips realized that it's impossible to compete with $400 tablet capable to be a remote control pad, and pulled the plug. Smart decision. In a couple of years you will see how all the proprietary RC hardware in upper segment disappears, giving way to Android-based tablets. Due to quantities, in a couple of years low end tablets with 7" XGA screens will cost under $100, and free applications from iPad and Android app stores kill the expensive MX and Harmony. As soon as someone releases a wifi controllable LINUX-based controller box with integrated IR blasters and a handful of RS232 ports (wich would cost under $250 on Amazon, without idiotic limitations for programming software distribution -- it will be all open source), URC will be dead dead. I bet it will happen in less than 2 years.

Indeed, this MX-980/MSC-400 will be my last one; Control 4 is the way for a year or two, then android will kill them all.

Installers, learn Java and C++...