I have a DVD player, cable box, receiver. ReplayTV coming soon. Pretty standard setup with all brand name components. If I am currently watching cable TV and want switch to my DVD player should I make the DVD button actually switch my receiver into DVD mode or do that when I get into my audio mode page area? I mean, basically what are user's doing with the capabilities of these remotes? Right now if I want to switch the input on my receiver, I goto the audio area and switch it manually. Do other people do that or do you macro away and have the main page buttons do that for you?
Also, one more question....if I configure the ON button to turn on all my devices and it misses a device for some reason and then I do it again, it will turn off some devices because the on button does the same thing to the device. How do I get around this?
And the biggest problem is this. I have a proscan PS32130 HDTV. Whenever I use the MX-700 power button to turn it off, it automatically throws it in video 1 mode by itself for some reason. Then, when it turns it back on I constantly have to keep changing the inputs to component. I want to keep it on component ALL the time. Keep in mind, the original Proscan remote does not do this and my learned SL-9000 does not do this. I even tried to learn my MX-700 from the proscan remote and it still puts it back to video 1 mode for some reason. Could this be a bug in the MX-700 or firmware? How can the same exact learned function act completely different on another learning remote control made by the same company? As of now, I can't include the TV in to turn on ALL my devices. Too bad....any idea anyone?


This message was edited by mdeligny on 11/20/03 20:42.

You can also go to the Home Master MX-700 home page and contact the tech. department.

Riche_guy

I'd use a macro to switch to the DVD player and to set up any other components so that once the macro does it's thing, you're ready to watch a movie. Cool thing about macros with the MX-700/800 - you can put that macro on just about any button of any page you want.

As for the power on, of course finding a discrete power on/off is best. If you can't find one, maybe inserting a delay in the macro before that device will help to send that command. Otherwise, you may have to go turn that device on separately after your power on macro has finished.

Never had the problem with the tv, so I can't answer that one. If no one else can answer it, you could insert a command to switch to component in your macro when you are powering up.

Well yea....

I also posted here since URC doesn't have a forum area. I've seen posts you've made here asking questions, did you contact URC tech support? I'm just doing the same thing you are. Looking for knowledgable user's that own the units.

What I did was create "push and hold" macros on the main page for each device. You do this by create a macro for the device and having the first step be a delay. I used 1 second.
So, if you push the button for less than 1 second, it changes to the device page without running the macro.
If you push the button for longer than 1 second, it runs the macro for that button.
This way each device button can just switch to the device, or, run a macro to change inputs, etc.