It can probably support 16 activities, if that is any help. In the RDF the [Buttons] section ends:vickyg2003 wrote:But I came up against the 14 activity limit way too quickly.
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Activity10, Activity11, Activity12, Activity13,Activity14, Activity15It is my belief that subchannels are already supported. Hover the mouse over the Digits drop-down and you will see that this specifies the number of digits before the decimal point. It says the decimal point sends the Enter key, which I believe is how subchannels normally work, followed of course by the following digits.Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one left in the world using subchannels and that its a forgotten technology.
Not easily, as far as I can see. But you can use the Esc key if you open the drop-down by mistake. The first press of Esc just closes the drop-down, but leaves it in cell editor mode with a 'V' mark for you to click to drop it down again. A second press of Esc closes the editor and restores the value that was there previously.vickyg2003 wrote:Could the Device Specific dropdown be made that when you click on it by accident that it starts out where it is instead of the first device on the list?
I do remember the device specific upgrades in the Producer 8 class of remotes, and IIRC we used it to get around some other bug that was present in these remotes, something to do with protocol upgrades, I think.mathdon wrote:"Specific to Device" is a column present in remotes that have device-specific upgrades. The XSights do, indeed IIRC they ONLY have device-specific upgrades. In most remotes a device upgrade is labelled with a DeviceType/SetupCode but can be assigned to any actual device. Device-specific upgrades are attached to a specific device, as the name suggests. They are a feature of really old remotes as well as XSight/Nevos. My old URC-8550, with a 740 processor, has device-specific upgrades. I recall that in the past, Vicky, you have said that RMIR should show you exactly what is in the remote. Well, in this case it does. To hide this column would hide critical info about the upgrade.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! This solves a huge problem for me!mathdon wrote:It is my belief that subchannels are already supported. Hover the mouse over the Digits drop-down and you will see that this specifies the number of digits before the decimal point. It says the decimal point sends the Enter key, which I believe is how subchannels normally work, followed of course by the following digits.Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one left in the world using subchannels and that its a forgotten technology.
The big problem with the DVR is that it uses a different channel numbering than my other equipment uses. On top of that the unit times out before I can get the subchannel entered, so it takes forever to actually tune in the channel I want because I have to Channel+- through 100 channels to set up a recording. This makes me want to go out and buy even more Nevo's. It doesn't allow this. It isn't a check box, its a drop-down which specifies the device the upgrade is attached to. It is part of the upgrade data and to hide it would remove critical info about the upgrade.The Robman wrote:If the Xsight class of remotes ONLY allow device specific upgrades, why would you allow someone to add a non-specific upgrade?
Okay, I'll make note of that. For some reasons I KEEP doing it. I'll try the escape.mathdon wrote:Not easily, as far as I can see. But you can use the Esc key if you open the drop-down by mistake. The first press of Esc just closes the drop-down, but leaves it in cell editor mode with a 'V' mark for you to click to drop it down again. A second press of Esc closes the editor and restores the value that was there previously.vickyg2003 wrote:Could the Device Specific dropdown be made that when you click on it by accident that it starts out where it is instead of the first device on the list?
vickyg2003 wrote:Functional limit on these is 72 items on a single favorites list. The remote will ignore any more than that.mathdon wrote:It is my belief that subchannels are already supported. Hover the mouse over the Digits drop-down and you will see that this specifies the number of digits before the decimal point. It says the decimal point sends the Enter key, which I believe is how subchannels normally work, followed of course by the following digits.Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one left in the world using subchannels and that its a forgotten technology.
I guess I need to divide this into 2 favorites A-M and N-Z or something like that.
My point is just that, if you NEVER want the user to uncheck this box, why give them the option to do so?mathdon wrote:It doesn't allow this. It isn't a check box, its a drop-down which specifies the device the upgrade is attached to. It is part of the upgrade data and to hide it would remove critical info about the upgrade.The Robman wrote:If the Xsight class of remotes ONLY allow device specific upgrades, why would you allow someone to add a non-specific upgrade?
Remember, Rob, that the internal structure of these remotes is nothing like that of any other class of UEI remotes. RMIR has to be able to reconstruct the files that hold the setup from the information contained in the relevant panels. To me it makes no sense to hide information that is encoded in the setup files, except in the few occasions where it seems to be info only used by EZ-RC, not by the remote, and this is not such info.
Well that echo's my opinion, I don't like all the button pushing, but I've designed this so the most used features, TV and Radio zone 1 and Zone 2 are on the first page of devices. And then on each device, the first page of soft buttons are the ones that my DearHusband would actually use.pH7_jp1 wrote:I can tell you some things he will dislike about it. First and foremost - the need to scroll left and right to find all the options. If my users don't see it, they don't know it is there. My son-in-law gave me a harmony with a touch screen that did the same thing. Actually extreme, since even the number pad was a swipe to the side. In my mind the Nevo is better, but still an inconvenience to my users.
I'm with you there. I've been using FAST MACROS for more than 10 years. I was actually shocked to see the menu's appear on the screen when changing the aspect ratios on my TV. On my 8810 I never even see the aspect selection screen, much less watch it actually change.Second, I don't feel that the "speed" is the same as my other remotes. Press a simple button, see a response on the TV. The Nevo just feels slow to me.
I thought that was going to bother me way more than it does. Perhaps because the ANGLE of USE is so different. I've been using 8810's in my family room, but they only have the single IR emitter and it is aimed out the front. In the daytime aiming that requires a lot of precision, and since the equipment is in a single row under the TV, you often need to rerun a macro aimed at the left most piece of equipment. The NEVO shoots more towards the back of the remote and has 2 IR emmitters, so you don't have to hold your wrist at that awkward angle when you are sending IR signals, and you can actually SEE the button you are pushing, while you are pushing it. The NEVO always gets all the equipment, RightMost and LeftMost .The thing that irritated ME the most was that selecting an Activity takes a minimum of 2 button presses and can take even more if the activity isn't one of the 3 on page 1. I always programmed activities on a single, unshifted button on my other remotes, so they were always one button press.
To me the ability to see the correct name for buttons overrides these inconveniences, but we have never adopted the Nevo because of them. Since you use Favorites a lot, having a good clear icon for the channels may go a long way in encouraging him to pick up the remote.
Another advantage to the Favorites, for you and DH, is that when you shift between FL and MI, the location of the favorite icons will remain the same. You will need to program a favorites list with the correct channel numbers once for each location, but he will never see a difference and you won't have to reprogram each time.
