If you are bored, come in and help me out :)

[Helevitia]

Well, I get my new remote soon for my HT, but the remote does much more than HT. You can control anything that you can connect an IR sensor to and learn the codes. I have several ideas but wanted to know if anybody could think of some good ideas I haven't thought of yet. For instance, I am going to create several MACROS to my favorite radio stations. The cool part about it is that I can use the stations logo and turn it into a bitmap adn place that on the LCD screen so when I press the logo, it goes to that station for me without pressing any other buttons. Now, I know macros aren't new, but this remote seems to work rather well and you can have up to 255 commands per macro. Here is some custom screenshots of what other people have doen that will give you an idea of what you can do....

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This image shows the 'home' screen

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He has custom IR lights setup. He can use his remote to turn them on and off

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And here is a screenshot of his channel setup. Notice the tabs in this pic.

The ideas are virtually limitless. You need only worry about how much memory you have and keep within the space. So if any of you have any ideas, let me know

Dave

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[Greebe]

First try using jpg's instead of bmp's OK ?

[Helevitia]

It only supports .bmp

Dave

[az]

Yes, but our browsers support .JPG

My old netscape wouldn't even display .BMPs

AZ

[ahartman]

I smell PRONTO!!!!!

I know xortam has one - he & I had some discussions when I bought mine... http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum3/HTML/001805.html

http://www.remotecentral.com is the pronto clearinghouse for information.

I bought mine last year for my b-day present. I love it. It really simplifies operating a home theater now that we're into the age of video inputs, audio modes, etc.

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[Greebe]

These pics are in there respective order to Helevitia's first post.

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[Helevitia]

wow, didn't realize some browsers wouldn't display .bmp. Sorry for the confusion. thanks Greebe for converting those for me

ahartman, yeah, saw your link and remotecentral is a site I frequent quite often. Have you done anything special with your Pronto? Meaning, have you revamped the interface like others have or are you using the default setup?

Dave

[Indiana]

Oh no! Please, please, please don't post B/W or Text-only images as .jpg

How about:


FileSize for the original BMP: 38518 bytes
FileSize for the JPG : 61164 bytes
FileSize for the GIF : 7343 bytes

See what I mean? PNG would be even better than GIF, but there are some browsers that don't know PNG again.
But I can hardly think of any browser that doesn't support GIFs (OK, forgot about Lynx... )

P.S.: Sorry for being a bit OT...

[xortam]

What is your HT setup Dave? For an idea at how complex the macros can get: My friend has an OTA HDTV card in his PC which he'll use to watch TV on his 10' projection screen via his projector which goes through a KVM switch which selects his PC VGA port. By hitting one HDTV button, the following sequence is initiated:

• lower projection screen (x10)
• power on projector
• dim room lights and bring up reading light (x10)
• power up amp, preamp, surround, etc.
• switch KVM over to PC input

I'm sure there are more steps involved but you get the idea. The important thing to do is select equipment that has discrete codes (IR code for power on is different from power off). You can control many additonal devices via x10 and an x10 IR pickup. The Pronto, and other such universals, are great integrating control centers, i.e. they tie all of your disparate lighting and equipment together. One idea you might try if you have a IR keyboard is to program the Pronto to issue the PC DVD player navigation keys via a stand-alone DVD control layout. Don't forget to backup your Pronto .ccf file to your PC so you never lose it. You ultimately have near infinite memory in the Pronto since you can save and load the configuration files at will, but that's not something you would frequently do. You sure can chew up a lot of time programming the Pronto with codes, macros, graphics, and layouts, but that's part of the fun.

[Greebe]

I keep forgetting about that. D'oh!

BTW it's now fixed

[Indiana]

Thanks. I'm one of those poor ISDN 64 Kbit/s users, as you all most probably knew right after my post....

[ahartman]

I've tweaked the interface a bit, but mostly from stolen stuff from remotecentral. I got to the point where I said "this is good enough". You can tweak your setup forever unless you get bored or are a genius!

The hardest part about the Pronto is resisting the urge to buy new components when your current stuff doesn't have the discrete codes you want...

I'm about to buy a new receiver, so I'll have to d/l Pronto Edit again so I can play!