User manual

Programming Left/Right and Direct Access Buttons Globally

When you name a Left or Right hard button in Home System Properties, you are naming the

buttons globally. If you choose to name a particular device or macro group’s Left and Right but-

ton properties, it will overide the Global properties when the user has navigated to that partic-

ular group. If you leave the name blank in a device or macro group’s Left and Right button prop-

erties, the name you programmed in Home System Properties will appear when the user navi-

gates to that group of panels.

To name a hard key, open up Home System Properties, navigate to the Left or Right tab. Click

on the Hard Key Name button to label the hard key.

When you program a step in the action list of any of these buttons within Home System

Properties, you are defining the action globally.You can overide within any device or macro

group properties by programming one step in their action lists. Local overides global.

Device Properties

You access a device’s properties by double clicking on the name of the device in tree view.The

Device properties enable you to program a Device Action list and an action list for each of the

hard and direct access button via tabs at the top of the device properties window.

Device Action

Anything you program as a step in this action list will be executed whenever the user selects

this device via the RC5000’s Device Menu. If the Home System Properties “Home Panels are

Write Protected” checkbox is checked and any of the home panels are named “home” (all

lower case), then Automatic Aliasing is enabled and the Device Action programmed will also be

triggered when a user presses a home panel button.

Suggestion Many users purposefully leave the Device Action list completely empty, so that

the power user may navigate freely through the device menu without affecting

the Home Theater (and without holding down the NO IR button).This is one

of the most powerful improvements in operational ease you can make with

RC5000 Setup.

Local Programming of Left, Right and Direct Access Buttons

Should you program any steps in these Action lists, they will only be executed when the user

has navigated to this particular device group of panels. Local programming overides the Global

programming done in Home System Properties. If you wish the Left, Right and direct access but-

tons to operate the way you’ve programmed them in Home System Properties, you must make

sure that all of these action lists are empty!