hoosier45678 said:
I just got my D* DVR a few days ago and managed to program my receiver to be used for the volume, depite the misleading instructions in the manual.
My question is: can I set the remote in some manner to where the TV Power button powers up the receiver as well as the TV and DVR, and the off button turns off the receiver with the other devices?
What do you mean by the receiver being used to control the volume? Do you mean that, when in DVR mode, your remote will also control the volume on your TV? If that's the case, then that should happen by default when you program your remote for your TV. As for turning on/off your TV and DVR at the same time, again, when you program your remote, it should happen by default. I know some folks have issues with getting that to work right, but I never have. Both of my R15 remotes will turn on/off the TV and DVR in question at the same time. Make sure the switch is all the way to the left (you don't want it in TV mode).
As an aside, when I first got my R15 I wondered what brain surgeon put two separate buttons on the remote - one for "on" and one for "off". Then I realized the reason. Sometimes, if my remote isn't pointing in quite the right place (if I'm sitting at an odd angle), my DVR will go on but not the TV, or vice versa - the remote is hitting the sensor on one but not the other. I quickly realized that if the same button controlled ON and OFF for both TV and DVR, then I would get into an odd situation if I managed to only turn one on and not the other (as what I described above). Then I realized how important it is to have two separate buttons. If I only end up turning one on, e.g., I just hit the ON button again, and the other unit will turn on. Although this doesn't quite to seem to work right with my second TV. The ON button seems to act as an ON/OFF button for the TV. So, if the TV is ON, and I hit the ON button again, it'll actually turn the TV off...