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Help making a macro
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Post 1 made on Monday March 18, 2002 at 22:26
avitar
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With the great resources of this site, I managed to load all of my devices onto my Pronto 2000 (except my plasma which is not listed but someone gave me the discrete code). Could someone help me make a macro to turn everything on/off?
Post 2 made on Monday March 18, 2002 at 23:28
Joel Warren
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There have been many great threads explaining this in detail, as well as the FAQs which are great. Feel free to poke around, do searches, etc., and you will get lots of info.

In a nutshell, though, a macro is a list of commands to be performed one after the other on one button. the commands are separated by delays of varying lenghts so they are not sent too fast for the devices to recognize. You pick the button you want to execute the macro, and double-click it. This will bring up the "button properties" menu. When you click on "action" you will get a tree-list of your devices, panels and buttons. Select the commands one at a time and push "apply" after each. Then insert your delays, and--voila!!

Like I said, its much more systematically and explicitly set out in other threads. Do a forum search for "macros" and you should be set.

Good luck.
Post 3 made on Tuesday March 19, 2002 at 10:04
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This is what you need to think about before you start
1) what does the macro need to do (turn on TV,change TV to input 1, turn on DVD ....)
2) does order matter (channel 12 is not the same as channel 21)

Build the macro
1) dblclk the macro button to get to its properties
2) click the action tab
3) click on alias
4) pick from the list the device (or macro group) where the action you want can be found (for instance TV) and click the + beside it
5) pick from the list of panels the one where the action you want can be found and click the + beside it
6) pick the name (label) of the button you want to mimic (like on) and click it
7) click OK
8) a line will appear in the action list with the device-panel-button (TV-panel1-on)
9) go back to step 3 until all the codes are entered.
10) debug macro

Debugging macros
1) often if you send two consecutive codes to the same device (i.e. on, input or ch1, ch2) the device will not be ready for it. that is why order matters. On a power macro you could do something like TV on, DVD on, TV input 1. but channel numbers tend to need a delay)

2) sometimes there is interference (i.e. the device is not ready to receive a command - it thinks you are still continuing the previous code - and you need to add a delay or move it on the list.
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