User manual

Home - Create Your Own or Use Auto Alias?

Decide whether you want to program Home manually or not. Uncheck the “Home Panels are

write protected” checkbox to manually program home buttons. Keep it checked for Automatic

Aliasing.

When programming with the remote control, the user cannot directly program home buttons.

Instead the home buttons are automatically aliased to device action as Device Aliases (see the

User Manual for information on Home panel buttons). When you use the remote, the buttons

you see on the home panel are generated automatically, based on what devices are active in the

device pull down Device menu.

You can choose to make your PC programmed RC5000 a little easier to work with by deciding

to program Home manually, rather than continuing to allow the RC5000 to program them for

you. Here’s the advantages of each method.

Programming Home Manually

If you program Home manually, the device action is no longer automatically linked to the Home

buttons.Thus, you can program macros and navigational jumps in Home buttons and leave

Device actions empty. If a device action is empty, you no longer have to hold down the NO IR

button when using the Device Pull down menu to navigate.Thus the power user who wants to

access other device control panels without triggering macros has an easier time of it.

What you see in RC5000Setup on the Home panel is what you’ll see in the remote control.

Everything is manually programmed, so the remote control does not automatically change the

layout based on the pull down device menu.

Use Automatic Aliasing to Create Home Buttons

Automatic aliasing of home panel buttons is a feature designed to save you programming time.

If you are happy with the way the device menu and the home panels are linked together, there is

no reason to create more work. In order to change the appearance of Home, you will have to

change the order of the Devices in Tree View. That is the only way to adjust the home panel

using Auto Aliases.

Note You can see five panels underneath Home in tree view.These blank panels have names

and aliases automatically generated for them via Auto Aliasing.There are five, so that

the user can add many components without running out of empty home panels.

If you choose to manually program home, uncheck Home panels are write protected,

and delete all but one of the home panels.

As additional safety margin, you might rename any panel in Home, something other

than “home”.Auto aliasing checks for two conditions:

1.The Home Panels are Write Protected checkbox is checked.

2.There are some panels in Home called “home” (all lower case).