My friends!

Before I destroy my two Marantz RC5000i, I want to hear from you if I'm crazy, stupid or if they work like that...
I bought two RC5000i and started playing with them. As I played a lot with the ProntoEdit SW before buying the RCs, I would say I'm quite familiar with the RC5000Edit and in two days wrote my whole .CCF. It works great but I have a couple issues:

- Sometimes you press a button, nothing happens. You keep trying and you cannot hear any sound. The unit looks locked. A couple seconds later, it reboots itself. Happened on BOTH and at least 3 times on each in 2 days. The CCFs are totally different on the RCs so it is not a CCF issue I think.
- I created a couple panels with the channels icons. When you press the button I call an alias to TV-MAIN-Digit. Example: Teletoon: TV-MAIN-4, TV-MAIN-8. Tried adding a delay before the first digit and one between them too. Sometimes the first or second digit will not work. If I switch to the TV-MAIN panel and press 4 and 8, it works all the time. What is the issue??? Any ideas???

These are my only issues. If I can fix them I will be really happy with the units! Otherwise, E-bay waits for them next week.

Thanks for your time!!!

Cláudio (you can CC: me on my email too!)

I've only seen this on the TSU2000 when using the built-in gallery... basically it seems to partially crash.


You should only need, at most, a delay between digits (before or after will do nothing useful). It might have something to do with the firmware on your remote. Try updating to the latest version.

Thanks Daniel.
I'm using the latest firmware for sure. As a normal geek this was the first thing I did on the remotes after getting them! :-)
To free up all the memory (and as I created the whole panels myself) I got rid of everything originally in the memory like the Marantz templates, codes and so on. What is the impact on this? I assume nothing should happen.
I found that removing the pauses and just waiting a little bit after pressing the channel icon (when you send the digits, my TV, a Sony 32", shows the digits on the upper right corner for a couple seconds), everything works fine. I need to wait the TV to remove the digits from the screen before sending new digits. Now looks ok I think. But the reboot happens sometimes. And this I cannot explain...

Thanks again!

Cláudio

You're right, removing that won't do anything.

The Marantz has some bugs with working with Sony devices, but that's normally if a button is NOT a macro, not if one is.

You should follow your macros with the Sony's [ENTER] command.

This is exactly what I did. Looks like it works all the time. I sent a zero first and the the two channel digits and to finish an Enter. Like this:
TV-Main-0
TV-Main-2
Delay 0.2
TV-Main-5
TV-Main-Enter

This would select channel 25. It is working ok I think... But it is a pain as I had to do this on ALL channels... :-(
And I'm happy that at least all the discrete codes for my Pioneer stuff (DV-606D and VSX-607S) and for my Sony work!

Thanks man!

Cláudio

I have a Sony TV as well... what's the leading [0] for? Doesn't need it. Also, you should really only need the delay between identical numbers... and even if it does need one, does 0.1 not work?

Sometimes the first digit for some reason is missed. Sending a zero before fixes this as the second digit is received 100% of the time. As a leading 0 means nothing, I send it just to make sure the TV will receive all the digits. The delay I decided to use for all just to play the safe game! :-)
Now it is working great. I tried last night without a glitch!

Cláudio