JP1 Remotes

[sweh]

[sweh]

Since I'm asking really really stupid questions, does this extender allow for hidden devices? My remote only has 5 devices, but I really have 6. Is there a way of doing this? I have a spare button I can use to select it

Otherwise I guess I could create a phantom key move on a device that targets the dev/code and then create a macro that calls that that device/key... it'd work for audio punch-through (only 3 keys) but not much more!
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Stephen

[unclemiltie]

The Atlas remotes only have 6 devices, that's hard coded into the remote itself and can't be changed.

If you need more devices you can either change to one of the remote that have 8 or you can use the device multiplexor to change the setup codes "on the fly" on one of the buttons (i.e. set a button to change TV from your TV to your STB and back) I'm not a fan of multiplexing, it's too complicated for the other members of the house, but it does work with the extender
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[sweh]

Ah the device multiplexer may work; I could set a macro on one key that sets the DVD device to the Samsung DVD player, and a macro on another key that sets it to the Sony BluRay.

From a user perspective it should look consistent; I just need to be a little careful with the macro chains.

Thanks!
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Stephen

[sweh]

I'm not 100% sure the device multiplexer works properly... or else I'm using it wrong

Special Function
DVD Phantom7 Multiplex DVD:code1
DVD Phantom8 Multiplex DVD:code2

Macros
DVD Dev_DVD;Phantom7;Set_Chan;Set_Trans;Set_PIP;Set_Menu;Set_Other
Shift-DVD Dev_DVD;Phantom8;Set_Chan;Set_Trans;Set_PIP;Set_Menu;Set_Other

So I press DVD then Power and my DVD player powers up
Then I press shift-DVD then Power and the BluRay powers up.

So far so good.

I then press AUD to select my Audio Receiver... press Volume Up... nothing happens. The right LED flashes but power doesn't change. Press POWER and the Aud LED flashes... but the BluRay turns off. So either I'm doing something wrong, or the multiplex code isn't quite right.

But I worked out another solution to my problem; I only need 4 primary functions from my audio device in every-day usage (vol-up, vol-down, mute, power-off) and secondary device select functions. I mapped the four primary functions to my TiVo device (vol+/vol-/mute/phantom2) and the device select functions are in each device upgrade as part of the "external functions" tab. (Which is a nice update from the old IR.EXE I learned all those years ago!)

So I think I can work around the 5 device limit without needing the multiplex addon
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Stephen

[unclemiltie]

Is there a Set_Vol in there somewhere?

That's what you do to set the volume to the Audio device, the volume keys will then stay there while all of the others go to the DVD.

You've got to do that at least once some time, if not it defaults to the TV device. But I'll tell you this that doing this "once" can lead to confusion so I generally have a Set_Vol in every device button macro so that I know what's going on.

Specifically on the end of your DVD macro add:

Dev_Aud; Set_Vol

now you should be good to go
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[R2-M0]

Curiosity question:

Running v3.04 of the extender on an RCRP05B, and when I look at the General tab in RMIR, I see three "Other Settings" related to LEDs. Unfortunately, I think I only understand two of them.

I believe LEDPatch controls whether device LEDs light up when functions are run on the "phantom" devices 4, 5, and 6.

Shift LED controls how/whether the LEDs light up when the shift key is pressed.

Then there's LED Behavior. It's a numeric value which, in my case at least, is set to 121. But I have no idea what that means and I can't find any reference to it in the ReadMe.txt file.

So I'm just left wondering what exactly LED Behavior does, and I'm hoping someone can scratch my little curiosity itch. Thanks in advance!

[unclemiltie]

The LED feature allows you to set the extender to either turn the LED on with a pending shift, Blink the LED with a pending shift or keep the LED off with a pending shift. This is what is described as "Shift LED" in the settings area

It does this by changing code in the extender that calls the routine that turns on the LED, flashes the LED or it just calls a RET instruction in the extender to ignore the LED.

It appears that LEDBehavior is a remnant from the first time I tried to implement the Shift LED feature because it's pointing to almost the same place. What you're seeing is code that is part of the above patching process. (it's the high 8 bits of the address that the extender calls if you want to get technical) So you can ignore this and in reality it should probably be deleted from the RDF so that you don't mess stuff up by changing that value and having the extender go off into some place that it does not know about.


LEDPatch tells the extender to blink phantom devices when you select them. The base remote does not.[/list]
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