I left everything set to ALL ports as it worked fine. I had several things to do besides that on a limited timeframe, so I didn't mess around after I found that it was working. I may have to change it in the future as he has a second 980 that came with the house that we will probably be using when we work on his downstairs systems. Thanks for all the input guys.

...backing up the claim that URC won't do anything about it. "We missed it before we sent it to you guys for beta testing, and that's the way it is." We end up being the master betas. Thanks, URC.

If you want to hear a story about installers being beta testers, I have a good one! ;)

This thread comes at a perfect time , I working on a job with that combo. I'm going to look like a rock star if this problem comes up and I fix thanks !

Just read my last post out loud.

I see what you did there.

Look at the first line of that Pic, "WATCH" IR Port is set to All.

The software lets you assign, say Cable Box to port 1, BDP to port 2, xbox360 to port 3. The problem is codes for the cable box will only shot out port 1 when you are ON the cable device page! So any macros to turn the system on from 'Watch" or "Listen" or "Main" will only work if you set the IR port to ALL.

Its a silly design choice that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, whats even worse, I don't think PUNCH TROUGHS for Volume will work properly due to how port assignment is based on programmed device and not physical device present.

This is 100% incorrect. Assigning the IR ports will send the codes to the appropriate devices from anywhere on the remote. You can alias a cable channel up and down button within your Bluray device and it will still control your cable channels. Same goes for punch throughs and everything else.

You got it all wrong cynic. Macros will alias whatever device you send a command to and route the right commands to the assigned ports regardless of anything else. If you assign codes to buttons on the watch page, then they will be sent to ALL ports or a specific port if you assigned it one.

Punch through works the same way. That is the point of IR routing. Sending devices only the commands they need.

Really?

Cause I have never gotten it to work correctly on URC, so I just always set to ALL

This is correct. Cynic is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!!!!!!. It matters not where you configure the Watch page if the macro is aliasing devices that are assigned properly.

URC CCP 101!

I've programmed over a hundred MX980 and 350 combos and never had the issue that the OP is indicating. I typically use .2 (sometimes .3 delays) and never had the issues.

However, I HAVE had occasional macros that fail to issue a command, even when the command works perfectly while pressing the button manually. What has worked for me, is to bump up the repeats (on the command that is not working in the macro) while pressed, to 4 or 5, and that solves it. I've had this issue with the MX-1200 too. It makes no sense but it has solved the rare occasions this issue (that the OP indicated) has occurred.

Do you drag codes from the IR Database Navigator into devices that do not match that code? What I mean is do you drag say a Power Off command for the TV from the IR Database Navigator to the cable box macro? In this case, it will not know where to send the command. You would want to drag the command to the TV device, and then alias is within the macro properly. This is about the only way it would not work once the ports were assigned.

He may have a point though. Cynic are you saying this might be the bug with the 980+350?

The guys are right, it's not normal behavior as you describe, but I can recall experiencing something like this the one time I tried to route on a 980+350. Set to ALL and all was well.

While it probably makes all sorts of sense to an person with OCD (not accusing anybody), I don't see any gain to come from

And can anyone tell me of any negatives of setting the routing to ALL?

Of course, if you have more than one of a particular device, you'll have to route to avoid switching more than one at a time. But otherwise, someone say something definitive, please, about disadvantages of sending to ALL.

The only negative I have found are the people that do not like to see the emitter flashing on the TV everytime they adjust their volume. This situation is few and far between, so really a non issue 99% of the time.