rric31 said:

I am new to the Re world so forgive me if this has been asked before. I have 2 different activities setup on the remote, 1 for watching TV and another one for watching a DVD. When I use the Macro to watch TV, all devices come on correctly without any problems. The problem happens when I then want to watch a DVD. Remember, all my devices are On, I click the Macro "Watch DVD" then my DVD player comes on but my Receiver (sound) and TV turn off. Is there any way to set the Re to remember that the devices are on?? I would hate to have to turn everything off first, then use the macro to turn all the appropriate items back on.

Thanks

rich in maine

Hi Rich,
The issue you have can be solved in various ways. Of course the best way is if the devices you are using have discrete Power On and Power Off commands. We have chosen not to implement a On/OFF state memory due to the many ways it can be defeated by transmission errors, using another remote, etc. Instead, we rely on the Re's capability of having many macros per activity to solve the problem. There is a blog article that covers some examples: http://www.newkinetix.com/2010…..th-macros/

Generally, I use a "From-To" macro to switch from Watch TV to Watch DVD since I know the state of my system. In your case, you can have a normal start macro for a cold start, and a TV to DVD macro to switch to DVD and a DVD to TV to switch back. You can put all of the control macros in a folder and even include individual power and input select buttons to use if the state gets "confused."

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