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jbollt
Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 53
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject: 1994 Device Button macro.. shift? |
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All is well..almost....I have 1994 extender #1 with macros on device buttons. I thought that shift/device button would bypass the macros, which it does, but it doesn't change to the device mode of that button.
Example, if my macro ends with VCR...and if I need to use a rarely used function on the rcvr, I thought I could push shift/aux1, to get access to the rcvr commands. Is this a restriction in the extender on 1994? I didn't notice that in the extender readme file.
Maybe a can do a shifted keymove on the device button to get the device back? I dunno??? Any ideas from the wizards of JP1?
I also have a 2116 (unextended), that does allow this shift/device button with macros on the device buttons.
I am trying to decide between the 1994, which I like very much, especially now that I can do macros on the device buttons, and the 2116, which I may take back to RS. Don't need the LCD and can spend the $30 elswhere.
Jeff |
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gjarboni Expert
Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 294 Location: Columbia, MD |
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: 1994 Device Button macro.. shift? |
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jbollt wrote: | All is well..almost....I have 1994 extender #1 with macros on device buttons. I thought that shift/device button would bypass the macros, which it does, but it doesn't change to the device mode of that button.
Example, if my macro ends with VCR...and if I need to use a rarely used function on the rcvr, I thought I could push shift/aux1, to get access to the rcvr commands. Is this a restriction in the extender on 1994? I didn't notice that in the extender readme file.
Maybe a can do a shifted keymove on the device button to get the device back? I dunno??? Any ideas from the wizards of JP1?
I also have a 2116 (unextended), that does allow this shift/device button with macros on the device buttons.
I am trying to decide between the 1994, which I like very much, especially now that I can do macros on the device buttons, and the 2116, which I may take back to RS. Don't need the LCD and can spend the $30 elswhere.
Jeff |
Can you just put a macro on Shift-Device that selects the appropriate device? I don't know how this extender does device selection, but that idea should work. |
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jon_armstrong Expert
Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 1238 Location: R.I.P. 3/25/2005 |
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe you already understand this but just in case ...
When the device key used WITHIN a macro is just switches to that device. If you assign a macro to a PHYSICAL device key, then it will execute that macro only when you push the physical button.
The way I set all my macros on a device key is to put that device last so it is in that mode at the end. So an oversimplified macro for TV is:
Aux1; discrete On, Input TV/DBS -- sets the receiver and audio input
TV; Discrete On, Tuner, 4, enter -- turns on TV, sets channel to lowest number.
VPT has already been set for the receiver, so vol+/-/mute control the receiver everything else is the TV _________________ -Jon |
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jbollt
Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 53
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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jon..thanks. I DO have all my macros with the device at the end, as you do. Once in a while, I need to use a rarely used function on a different device, while in the macro ending device mode.
I just created 3 one button shifted macros..
shift/TV=TV
shift/VCR=VCR
shift/AUX1=AUX1
Voila...
Thanks,
Jeff |
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