I am new to the remote central forum and have just purchased a new Marantz RC5000 remote. I am very happy with it and I think I got a good price at $290.00 brand new. I have a question though that I have not been able to figure out. I did a lot of organiasation and have the RC5000 fairly complete. I have a Pioneer reciever VSX-D608 and it uses a function button to change to the different components ie: DVD, VCR etc. I have a panel set up to access my components directly. I am having trouble trying to figure out how to make this function with the RC5000. I also have made some macros so I can watch a DVD and so on. I need to figure out a way to access my components with one button as per a macro and get to that device. When you use the reciever and push the function button to move to the different devices where ever you leave off at and shut off the reciever when you turn it back on it will be on that component. The reciever itself has seperate buttons on the front to access the components directly. But the remote control only has a function button to get to a certain device. I tried a macro and set the function button to be pushed so many times and added a delay in between. Yet if you do not shut off the reciever at the same component each time you will either not go far enough or go to far.
I would appreciate any suggestions anyone has on this subject or if some one has found a way to make this work on a similar reciever.

Thanks
Richard

Richard,

One way to do this is to control how to shut things down. I do this by not allowing the user to shut components off directly; instead they press a button which starts a device-specific macro which shuts the appropriate components off, resets the state of the receiver to a known state, and terminates with a jump to the home page.

Kabir,

Thanks for the information I never thought of it as shutting down the system always at the same point. I have however found a perfect solution to this problem. I have found on this site some discreet IR codes which work perfect with my reciever and will let me switch to any component I want. These codes were never on my original remote and there were some discreet on and off codes as well. It is exactly what I needed and helps me to complete my macros.
Thanks again for the advise.

Richard