Basic Macro Question

cseyer · Post by **cseyer** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:21 pm

I am having excellent luck with my new RS 19-2117. I have made new upgrades for both my Sony Wega and my Sony Receiver which have the functions that I want/need.

So onto macros. Goal here is to press a device key ie TV and have the TV power on, switch to the tuner, turn on receiver, switch receiver to TV input. Same for DVD, VHS, and the cable box.

I made a couple of macros using discrete codes that work shifted under the the device buttons. When I made a macro for the TV I had to keymove the receiver buttons under phantom TV device buttons. Is that correct? Is there no way to switch from the TV device execute buttons and then switch to the Receiver device execute buttons and then leave the remote in TV mode? If so I cant figure it out in the IR program.

gfb107 · Post by **gfb107** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 6:03 pm

I'll assume you aren't using the extender.

A device button press coded inside a macro will not invoke any macro defined on that button. The builtin function of that device button will occur.

So, you can change the active device inside a macro (defined on a device button) by including a device button in the macro.

For example, the macro bound to your TV button could be

TV;Power;AUD;Power;1;TV

This will switch to TV mode, send the Power signal, swich to AUD mode, send the Power command, Send the 1 command, and finally switch back to TV mode.

cseyer · Post by **cseyer** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:57 am

I am not using an extender yet. I wanted to see how this would work first. So I am guessing that if I follow that path that I would not be able to assign macros to the device button unshifted, which is my ultimate goal?

johnsfine · Post by **johnsfine** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:33 am

cseyer wrote:if I follow that path

I can't tell which way you mean that.

If you use an extender then you can have the macro you want on an unshifted device key. Extenders use a different approach to device selection, so that there is no conflict between the device key on which the macro is programmed and the device selection within the macro.

If you don't use an extender, I think you still can do it. A few models allow a macro on a device key even without an extender. I think the 2117 is one of those. As Greg explained, without an extender, you can't invoke a macro from inside another macro. If the TV key has a macro defined on it, that macro is invoked only when you use TV directly from the keyboard. If TV is used inside a macro it will have its built in meaning.

If you switch from a non extender config to an extender config, you'll need to change each macro that does device selection, because the way to do device selection in a macro is different.