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I just programmed an extra MX850 for myself, and I've not been able to find an adjustment that I need.

I find it helpful with my DirecTV DVR to have eight forward skips programmed as a macro. That takes me through most ad blocks. The thing is, I can hit the button faster than the macro executes. It seems like at least a half second elapses between commands, and unlike an RTI command, I haven't found a place where I can change that timing.

How can it be done?

There's no other way than: 8 commands in succession w/o delays in a macro. That's as fast as you'll get with it.

Rats. One more reason to like RTI: it comes with 0.3 second delays, but you can edit it down to zero. I'd probably need 0.1 second here, but that would be much better.

At least the IR from the MX850 is so strong that it almost doesn't matter which direction I point the remote!

.1 isn't good enough? I'm pretty sure the delay is .3 by default, but you can enter .1 in the macro menu.

So are you saying that firing off 8 commands with zero delay between each other is going to be longer than inserting .1 second between each? If so I was not aware of that.

All remotes have some sort of stock internal delay, either enforced because a true 0.0 seconds would mean the commands would run one into the other and most likely couldn't be deciphered, or as a limitation of how quickly their hardware can actually read/process/transmit commands. Most remotes do start off with a bare minimum; I recall when the Pronto first came out it was a tad too fast and a lot of devices had difficulty working without any sort of manual delay.

Remotes based on the MX-700 seem to have around one-quarter to one-third of a second fixed delay, however a lot of that could be based on the hardware platform (the MX-700/850 isn't exactly a spring chicken, kind of tough to fairly compare it to a much newer and much more expensive RTI).

IIRC, each IR command takes .5 seconds on the MX platform. I may be mistaken, but I think it is the case....even if the code itself is not that long, it takes that long to issue the command and prepare for the next step in a macro.

You may be able to modify the repeat option for that button to 1 and build the macro from there, but I doubt it will make it any faster.