JP1 Remotes

Hello,

I'm trying to determine if this can be done a) without getting into JP1 or b) can it be done using JP1

I got this remote to control my outdoor sound system. It has a nice feature called Home Theater mode ( I don't know how many other oFA remotes have this feature) where you can , for example, assign the playback controls to your CD, the audio controls to your Amp, the channel controls to SAT etc. You press the HT button and the remote is now more wife friendly (WF). To make it even more WF I wanted to set a macro on the power button to turn on all necessary components and set the HT mode. So all the wife has to do is hit the power button to turn on the outdoorr system and hit power again to turn it off. This macro works like a charm if I assign it to M1 but not the Power button. I read this post and tried the steps listed but to no avail. Here's what the macro looks like RCVR/Amp-Power-SAT-Power-HomeTheater. What I have observed is because this macro sets the HT mode when you power on or off, the remote remembers this state and it will not respond to any power button keypresses (whether or not a macro is assigned) when HT mode is set. According to OFA tech support this is by design. SO back to my original questions- is there a way to do this?

A power macro is exactly that a, strictly power commands. And only those that preset via built-in setup codes.

Summary: You want a macro on the power button of a 9910 in HT mode.

So far as I know (maybe someone more expert in the 9910 will correct me) you cannot do that without JP1 and with JP1 you cannot do exactly that, but you can get the same WF operational behavior.

There is add-on software you can install via JP1 called an "extender". That allows you to have a macro on any key in any mode. But I believe it also gets rid of the original form of HT mode. I'm not an expert in the 9910 version of the extender, but I believe it allows device selection in macros to do everything HT mode can do and more.

MaskedMan wrote:A power macro is exactly that a, strictly power commands. And only those that preset via built-in setup codes.

I never remember which models have which of the strange features, such as the one you just described. I know I've seen that feature, but I didn't think it was in the 9910.

Isn't the 9910 one of the models in which HT mode totally disables the power button so no action of any kind can be triggered by pressing power in HT mode, regardless of what is programmed by macro, KeyMove, Setup code, etc.?

From the 9910 Users Manual wrote:A Macro on the POWER key (if applicable) will carry over to the Home Theater mode

But what seems to happen is what

johnsfine wrote:Isn't the 9910 one of the models in which HT mode totally disables the power button so no action of any kind can be triggered by pressing power in HT mode, regardless of what is programmed by macro, KeyMove, Setup code, etc.?

However, if the 9910 isn't in HT mode the macro will work on the Power button - it's just the last thing the macro does is set HT mode so you can't shut down using Power button without switching modes. My wife doesn't care how it gets done just as long as it is. So if the JP1 extender software can set up the remote like the HT mode then great. That looks like the route I will take. It's just that I seem so close.....

Since the user manual and Edmund both disagree with me, I'm probably confusing the 9910 with the 15-2116 again. I tend to do that.

The manual may disagree with you but what you described is really what happens. So somehwere in the deep dark recesses of your biological EEPROM you probably read about it somewhere I'm going to try UE tech support one more time. Maybe I'll get a different answer.

MaskedMan wrote:A power macro is exactly that a, strictly power commands. And only those that preset via built-in setup codes.

Just FYI the 9910 doesn't have the master power macro option as some of the other remotes do.