Syntax Olevia 537H with 15-2116

[tdesmit]

First, my thanks to Evan_s for posting the upgrade for the 537H, and MANY MANY thanks to those of you who have worked so hard to make JP1/IR/RemoteMaster such a wonderful solution to our toughest remote problems! With this site and these tools I've been able to add devices that were made YEARS after my remote was discontinued by Radio Shack, and to top it off, I get more functionality than the OEM remote!

Ok, on to the meat of the problem here. I just purchased the TV listed in the subject, and I have been able to get the upgrade working (I was soooooo happy to discover the discrete input selection codes!). I did have to tweek things a bit, seems the earlier editions of the 537H TV only had one HDMI input, this one has two (a nice plus). I did manage to stumble my way into getting the right numbers plugged into RemoteMaster to get access to the discrete HDMI input selection, I'm still working on finding the right one for "tuner input", the one in the upgrade does not work, seems they must have remapped things a bit when they added the additional HDMI port. Hopefully I can find the new code, then I can post a new Upgrade for the 2-HDMI input version of the Olevia 537H.

So, I've got my Macros setup so the whole family can run the remote to watch Satellite, DVD or over-the-air, but I've got one problem. The Olevia TV takes so long to come up, that my power-on macro is not working for TV input selection, even though I've put that command at the end of the macro. I could have sworn there was a way to put a pause in a macro on the RS 15-2116, but for the life of me, I can't find out how. Am I sadly mistaken or overly optimistic, or both, or is there a way to add a pause??
Thanks in advance for any info you folks can provide.

Tom

[tdesmit]

OK, bad form for replying to my own post
I did something I should have done before my original post, I searched the forum! I found that RM has a way to define the pause in a macro, so until I try that later today, don't worry about replying (or flaming me for not seaching first!). If I run into trouble, I'll post again, sorry 'bout that!

It looks like I will need about a 10 second pause, I hope thats doable.

Tom

[The Robman]

There are various ways you could attack this problem, so let's start with the quickest and easiest to see if that gets you up and running.

This option is known as the "Zenith Pause Trick" and it's described in FAQ item #1.17:
http://www.hifi-remote.com/ofa/faq.shtml#1.17

Basically, you want to copy the RECORD button from VCR/0039 to the RECORD button in TV mode (which I assume is an unused button), then use TV/RECORD as your pause in your macros.

If that doesn't give you enough of a pause, we can look at the other pause options.