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friendlyfire · Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 55

hello
thanks for the excellent forum and great tools. I have already made some progress in customizing my OFA8811 so that it automatically sets my home theater amp to the proper audio input when a video device is selected. COOL! I am using the version 3 extender.

question 1. All my keymoves vanished when I converted my remote configuration to the extended version. Is this expected? This is not really a problem for me - I don't need all those keymoves any more because of the powerful macros I can build on the device selection keys, but I was surprised to lose them all. The documentation suggests the keymoves should be preserved, did I misunderstand?

my next mini project is to set up the power macro. Unfortunately 4 of my 5 devices are TOAD (in other words these devices have only a power toggle control on their remotes as opposed to independant on and off controls). I suppose this is common and but it looks like a pain to deal with.

question 2. Is it at all common that a/v devices support additional (secret) on and off commands when the remote only has one button? Should I search for upgrade files or am i better of spending my time programming a TOADTOG extension?

I have some more questions about how to configure power macros but I leave those for another day
thanks again
Brian

friendlyfire · Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 55

aha, I researched further and I see now that the concept of hidden discrete codes is nothing new. The hunt is on for codes for the input and power controls for my JVC TV!

Capn Trips · Expert Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 3990

The loss of keymoves shouldn't happen, unless they were overwritten by some default keymoves the extender installs automatically, or something.

As for discretes, sometimes they do, sometimes they don't don't. Why don't you list the gear you're using and what setup codes work, and someone should be able to point you to at least some codes to TRY.

You could also look here and here for some options to consider.
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Capn Trips · Expert Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 3990

friendlyfire · Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 55

Hi, thanks. I've made significant progress since my last post. I installed a new device for the TV that contains extended codes supportiing discrete power on/off and (hooray!) discrete selection of any of the four TV input signal sources. This drastically simplified the programming effort.

I programmed device select macros to turn on the appropriate device and select the appropriate input on both the TV and receiver. I also programmed power macros to turn on or off both of these devices (everything else I am leaving on all the time, at least for now)

there is one problem I am working on now. Logically everything is working well, but I have a reliability issue. Once in a while the TV fails to obey the command in these macros. It seems that when it fails to respond it stays in a mode where it won't work for a while (i.e if I try a different macro it still doesn't work) and after a bit it "wakes up" and everything is working perfectly and stays that way... until the next time...

The behaviour is consistent with the TV landing in a mode where it has received a partial or invalid command and then new commands won't process correctly until it gets in synch again. Is that a plausible explaination? If so, can I precede these commands with some kind of flush command?

I should also mention that I split the turn on command and the input selectiion command as far apart as possible in case it was a tining problem and the behavior didn't change. The problem occurs if the TV was on or off before launching the macro

The TV model by memory is a AV32D501, hope I have that right. (I'm not home right now) I used the device codes for the JVC 32432 posted by raycam2250 and as far as I can tell those codes work for my model also. I have a few tests in mind to try and isolate the problem but if anyone has any suggestions that would be great. If I have ongoing problems I'll post the configuration to the debug site.

thanks again
Brian