JP1 Remotes

I have two different remotes, because the audio for my system plays CDs/radio in two rooms (or the sound from the TV). The NAD C720BEE receiver that I have has two speaker controls (A and B) that turn the speakers on or off for that room.

I'd like to have a macro control turning everything, including the speakers for the particular room, on (or off). The original remote has only a toggle command for that, and I believe that leaves me with three options

1) Try all the unused OBC codes and hope one is a discrete on/off for the speakers (no luck)

2) Discover some command (e.g. changing input) that puts the speaker toggle into a known state (so far, no luck either)

3) Use a ToadTog in the remote -- except that it seems that the toggle state is stored in the remote itself (which of course makes sense), so the multiple remotes can get confused about the state pretty easily.

If I could rely on someone always turning the system off when they left room A to go to room B, I think the toadtog would work, but its just too easy to listen to the radio in room B, leave it on, and go to room A and want to turn on the TV. Of course, it's not a huge deal to have to toggle the speakers as a second key press if they don't happen to be on...but am I missing another way to do this that accounts for using multiple remotes?

klflote wrote:am I missing another way to do this that accounts for using multiple remotes?

I don't think so.

In fact I think you have summarised your options pretty thoroughly.

If you only have toggle commands available, then the only way your remote can "know" the state of the device is to save it internally - it can't "find it out".

so yes, if the device is toggled without the remote's knowledge, with another remote or a press of the power button on the device, the remote is then potentially out of synch.

Someone cleverer than me may tell you a way to improve on this situation, but I can't think what it would be...

Actually, after i posted that reply I had a thought...

(rare, but it does happen)

what about a separate power controller like an X10 device between your devices and the power socket ?

Then you could control that instead of the device power.

Obviously you'd need the seperate "gadget" to have discretes available.