cinema 7 (7800) and macros

[randyk]

I have a puzzle with my cinema 7 remote. I have programmed several macros on several different keys. I put one on the pip key to turn on a number of devices. It works the same way regardless of which device key is pushed. I then programmed a macro for my tv that switches video inputs (a macro is needed because I don't have discrete codes for the inputs). I put this macro on the macro key and the return macro on the macro2 key. However, these macros only work if the tv device button is first pressed. I thought that macros worked the same regardless of which device key is pressed. I might add that this doesn't make me unhappy. It just puzzles me.

[Nils_Ekberg]

I have a puzzle with my cinema 7 remote. I have programmed several macros on several different keys. I put one on the pip key to turn on a number of devices. It works the same way regardless of which device key is pushed. I then programmed a macro for my tv that switches video inputs (a macro is needed because I don't have discrete codes for the inputs). I put this macro on the macro key and the return macro on the macro2 key. However, these macros only work if the tv device button is first pressed. I thought that macros worked the same regardless of which device key is pressed. I might add that this doesn't make me unhappy. It just puzzles me.

Macros are indeed global but the functions in the macro are not. In other words, if a macro is executing a TV function you need to either be in TV mode or use the macro to go to TV, do the functions and come back. The bad part is that in an unextended remote there is no easy way to get to another device temporarily and get back the the place you started. So, a macro in each device on a different button might be needed with the jump to TV in it and end with the device you want to go back to.

[johnsfine]

I then programmed a macro for my tv that switches video inputs (a macro is needed because I don't have discrete codes for the inputs). I put this macro on the macro key and the return macro on the macro2 key. However, these macros only work if the tv device button is first pressed.

Probably the macro executes regardless of which mode you start in. (It will unless overridden by KeyMoves, which I assume it wasn't).

But a macro is not a sequence of IR signals. A macro is a sequence of KeyStrokes. That sequence of KeyStrokes has the effect you expect when the remote starts in TV mode. Have you thought about what those same KeyStrokes would do started in a different mode?

[randyk]

That makes sense. Thanks. That would also explain why macros use up more memory than necessary. Maybe I should try an extender.

[The Robman]

That would also explain why macros use up more memory than necessary.

In what way? Macros actually use up very little memory, they use 1 byte for the keycode, one byte for the length and then one byte for each step. An 13 step macro uses the same memory as 3 regular keymoves.