Status Messages For Impatient Clients With Long Macros - Home Theater Master MX700 Manual

Status Messages for Impatient Clients with Long Macros

For clients who have problems waiting for long macros to finish, it is helpful to
design the system to give a dramatic status message while the macro is working,
otherwise they may put the remote down in the middle of the macro, frustrating
themselves.This is possible for a system with UP TO 10 DEVICES. Here's how to
do it.
This is the kind of status message you can have the remote dis-
play WHILE a macro is being issued!
1 Move all of the devices with their IR programming to MAIN Page 2. Just drag and drop them using Create
and Move Devices (Program Menu #1).
2 Now, create new devices on MAIN Page 1. Duplicate the exact order of MAIN Page 2.
3 Use LCD Button Editor to label page 1 of each of the first ten devices (the ones on MAIN Page 1 without
IR codes) with a message that will be visible as long as the macro is working:
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