I have been scanning the boards for days trying to find the thread that could help me in mu pursuit to learn how to program macros for my TSU6000. I have had no luck so I am resorting to asking what may be an already answered question. So here it goes.

I have the following devices:

Denon 3802 reciever
Mitsubishi WT-46809 HDTV
Sony NS700P DVD

and some other equipment which I am not concerned about currently

What I am trying to program is a "Watch DVD" button on my ccf. When pressed I am hoping I can accomplish the following: Turn on TV>Set TV to Component 1 Input>Set TV to Standard Format>Turn on Receiver>Set Receiver to DVD>Set Receiver to Dolby Digital Format>Turn on DVD Player>Jump to DVD Control Menu.

I understand the steps required to get buttons to Jump to new panels OR to take on the properties of ONE learned command. I am however, confused when it comes to linking these steps together to something that is extremely useful like the above.

Any advice you can give to this beginner would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Jeremy

I know I am replying to myself but I jsut wanted to let you guys know that I found some helpful information in a couple threads on Macros that I just overlooked. However if you have any insights or other helpful advice on my specific setup I would still greatly appreciate it. Thanks

Jeremy

Macros are fun.

I find that the easiest way to make macros is to use as many discreet buttons as possible, and then call them from the macros.

eg.
On my system I have four devices:
TV, VCR, DVD, AMP (receiver).
Each of these devices has a HIDDEN panel with just about every button from the original remote, and as many discreet codes that I can find. I call each of these panels "IR".

To make the example macro that you suggest, I would make a button called "Switch to DVD" and put it in a HIDDEN panel somewhere.
The button would have the following ACTIONS:
TV - IR - PowerOn
Delay
AMP - IR - PowerOn
Delay
DVD - IR - PowerOn
Delay
TV - IR - StandardFormat
Delay
AMP - IR - SelectDVD
Delay
TV - IR - Component1
Delay
AMP - IR - DolbyDigital
Delay
DVD - IR - ControlMenu

NOTE that each of these items called is a BUTTON and I call it by clicking on the ALIAS button.

NOTE that I put a delay inbetween each IR code. (I usually use 0.1s, but you will have to experiment with this.)

NOTE that I stagger which devices I am talking to. It can sometimes take a device a few seconds to turn on (especially my TV) so I work on controlling something else instead of just waiting.

You may run into problems with some of the things that you want to do.
Eg You want to set your HDTV to "Standard Format" and may not have a code for this.
Look for work-arounds suck as pressing a different button that sets what you want to a know state, and use the "toggle" type buttons a number of times from there.

The easy way to work with Macros is think what buttons you would normally press on your remotes to make this happen, and then do exactly the same commands in your macro.

Hope that this helps.

-=Nick=-

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