It seems that the ProntoPro will not issue RF for buttons on the Home panel. My Home panel is named MAIN and is not a ProntoPro automatic alias panel. Although the rest of the panels all switched to RF when directed so, The Home device has no way to say which RF extender code to use. Even when I aliased a home device panel button to a regular button on a panel that was issuing RF, the aliased button on the home panel did not issue RF but rather IR. Seems strange. Can anyone confirm?

Yes, this is the case. I've been posting about this for 3 or 4 days and have gotten no response, except that one other person has confirmed they have this problem also. I have tried various tricks to no avail. The only workaround I've found is a copy of the home page moved to a device panel that is designated as RF and use that. Then put a button on the real home page that is a jump to "RF home". If you are in the room with your amp, use the regular home page. Elsewhere, take the jump to the RF 'home' page that resides within my preamp device. Sucks, but it's the best i've got so far.

And by the way, this bug was not fixed with the new software/firmware package.

Steve

yes I agree with what you are doing. I have done the same thing. My home panel is going to be nothing but a graphic, and I will live with one extra level. I suspect it is a design flaw and not a bug since they do not provide a way to state the extender ID on the home panel device.

I've since moved my 'RF home page' to the macro group and renamed the group RF HOME. By the way, selecting devices by way of the device menu dropdown list does send RF. So, you may use home as a method of jumping from device to device without changing inputs if you delete the IR commands and leave the page flips. Then select devices via the device menu.

I think the reason you are not getting any help is that so few of us have used the RF adapter. Hang in there. Maybe someone will see this soon.

I am convinced that there is no way to get RF out of home page panels. I say that because there is no way to set the RF extender code for home page panels.

I am using RF exclusively at this time. The entire HT is controlled by a PC that receives IR from a small IR decoder that only understands NEC format, but does give the PC fully decoded IR (device code and function code) on a com port. I built a little optical coupler in a Radio Shack Black box (literally) the RF extender has a Xantech test IR plugged into it (so we now know that the RF extender will drive Xantech emitters) and the test emitter is sealed in the black box with the IR rcvr. I am getting RF range of about 50 feet very reliably. Someone mentioned about other RF extenders, in particular RCA units and I would be interested in knowing the exact model.