Creating Key Moves And Macros; Key Moves - One for All EXTENDER A1 FOR URC-7780 Instructions Manual

In one important respect the new groupings correct a deficiency in the construction of the unextended
remote. There, the Brightness buttons are in the Channel group and the Colour buttons in the Volume
group, corresponding to their unshifted assignments. Since these pseudo-physical buttons only apply to
the TV device, this appears to be a simple oversight when these buttons were added to the software. In
the extender they have a natural grouping in the Aspect group with the 16:9 button so that they can all be
assigned to the TV device.
By default, when Device n is selected on the LCD, the buttons of the various groupings send the
corresponding IR signal for the following device:
A (Aspect):
V (Volume):
All other groups:
This gives every device a default Home Theatre operation.

4. Creating key moves and macros

4.1 Key moves

Key moves enable you to change the function performed by a button, or to add a function to a button that
has no function within the setup code for the device concerned. They have the same functionality in the
extender as IR.exe provides for them in the unextended remote. This is somewhat more than is available
through the long Magic keypress setup for Key Magic, as the assigned function can use any setup code,
while Key Magic restricts you to the setup codes that have already been assigned to devices.
You create key moves through the Key Moves tab of IR.exe by pressing Add. In the Bound Key section
of the form that appears, you choose the device and key to which you want to assign the new function.
You specify this function through the Function to Perform section of the form. First choose the device
that the new function operates. If it is a device already set up, just double click its entry in the Device list.
For greater flexibility you can specify the Device Type (e.g. DVD) and Setup Code (e.g. 0788) just as if
you were setting up a new device. Finally you specify the function for that device. By selecting the
appropriate radio button, this can either be a key (chosen from a drop-down list, as allocated in the setup
code), an EFC (the 5-digit value that you would enter as a Key Magic code in the unextended remote) or,
if you know it, the Hex Command (one or two bytes, specified as hex values preceded by $, e.g. $1A
$B3).
The function assigned to a key move is output directly as an IR (infra-red, not IR.exe) signal. Its
processing makes direct use of the setup code specified in the key move, regardless of whether that code
is or is not assigned to any device. Also, when you press a button, the processing checks whether there is
a key move assigned to that button before it checks whether there is a macro assigned to it. An important
consequence of these two features is that there is no nesting or recursive action in a key move. It does not
matter whether a macro or another key move is assigned to the button, if any, that would perform the
assigned function – that function will be performed. For example, I have what at first sight seems to be
an unnecessary key move: the device/button combination 'Device 1 power key' is bound to the function
'Device 1 power key'. But I also have a macro bound to the power key and I do not want it to operate
with Device 1. This key move ensures that with Device 1, the power key has its normal function
regardless of the presence of the macro.
I also have key moves assigned to the Enter button, separately for each device. These change the input
selector of my AV receiver to that for the device concerned. This provides the Enter button with a
common function across all devices.
Device 1 (TV)
The VPT Device, if set and turned on, otherwise Device n
Device n.
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