Hello all,

I have a situation in an upscale country club where there are 8 TV's, and each TV has it own sat receiver. Additionaly, there is a sat receiver for music and a stereo receiver.

I am new to the MX-3000 and thought that the IR routing with the touch panel would be the best way to go for the bartenders to easily navigate and choose programming for each of the TV's.

I have set up the main page with icons: TV 1 to TV 8 and music. The only action the TV's need is on and off, so the devices are really each TV's married sat receiver.

There are four pages for each TV: all icons for news, sports, entertianment and the number pad.

Here is where it gets tricky. The bartenders want to be able to turn any TV off and on at their whim...so I added an on and off button to each page.

I am using two rf 350 staitions. Many of the TV's and receivers are of the same brand so I need to route the IR via the outputs. I also need to make this as simple as possible as the older fired installer had 19 remotes at the bar for control.

The bartenders know each TV as #'s 1 to 8 and I want the device to really be the married sat recievers for that TV for which they want to control. I do not want the bar keeps to have to go back to the main page if they want to choose to shut off TV 4. So I added an on off button for each TV.

The problem is that IR routing is based on devices? Or am I wrong. I could splice two flashers to the outputs, one going to the sat receiver and the other going to the TV for the occaisional use of turning off that TV. I don't think that a button is port addresable on the RF stations, and if it were that would solve my problem.

Am I not taking advantage of hidden pages, and if so How do I do this?

Very sorry for the long post, I could use some ideas.

Iwould have 1-8 numbers along the top of each page, this will be a jump to button so the bartender will not need to go back to the main page. or i would simply put a power button on each page and that would be a jump to button to a power page for all the tvs in the area. if u need help let me know, email me what you have and i can see if i can make up some examples for ya.

IR routing devices is based on devices, so if you have a TV 1 power on/off button on every page, then it's going to use the TV 1 MRF-250 receiver and port as you addressed it.

Is this what you were looking for?



Thank you,
Damon DG
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Control Systems Consulting, Sales & Online Programming

IR routing is based on devices, so if you want to do IR routing, which from your post I'm guessing you need, you have to remember that Devices are just that, Devices. Create a seperate device for each physical device that you want to control. How complete the devices are in their ability to control fully their intended electronics is up to you. These device pages must exist for each device you wnat to control and then you must alias to these device pages when ever you send a control command. You can set up your user interface control pages as you wish under MAIN, just remember to alias ALL buttons that actually send out a control command to the corrisponding button in that particular device.

If you dont have to control volumes via remote then you should never have to actually jump to a device page. All control can be done through the use of aliases from your user interface pages. If you do need volume controls then email me and I'll explain your options. It gets a bit dicey.

Lane Bailey