[slinkelist] Help with Device Files

[AndyStein@aol.com]

    Thanks for the quick and detailed responses.  To address your questions:

    1.  I do not always want to use the same CD input.  One changer connects 
to the CD Auto (digital) input, and another connects to the CD Analog input.  
I don't know what is supposed to connect to the third CD input, CD DTS.  In 
addition, I have changers connected to other inputs, such as Tape/MD, VCR 1, 
DVD/LV, etc.  I need CDJ automatically to switch to the proper CD input (CD 
Auto or CD Analog) when I select a disc or track.

    2.  I haven't seen a fancier remote with distinct buttons for CD Auto and 
CD Analog, but it's worth investigating and I will.

    3.  I'm not sure what you mean by locking the input.  I think you're 
asking whether I can force the receiver into only one CD input (CD Auto, for 
instance), but if I did that, then I couldn't use the other CD input.

    Thanks again for your input (pun intended--sorry).


    Andrew


In a message dated 6/25/00 7:35:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
iancole@earthlink.net writes:

<< I'm trying to understand - So bear with me for a few questions:
 
 1) Do you ALWAYS want to use the same CD INPUT - (CD AUTO?)
 2) Have you ever seen a "bigger / better" Yamaha remote that had DISTICT
 buttons for those modes? If so, you might be able to either borrow the
 remote, or "copy" the distict code into a universal remote (while at your
 favorite yamaha dealer), then bring it home, decode the "distict" code and
 use it. (I hope that made sense)
 3) Have you check the user manual to make sure you can't "Lock" the input?
 My sony has a similar feature.
 
 >     In addition, as I mentioned in an earlier post, I have one additional
 > dilemma.  The RX-V995 assigns names to each input, e.g., VCR, CD, TV.  The
 CD
 > input connects to one analog and one digital device and advances from mode
 to
 > mode--CD Auto, CD DTS, and CD Analog--with each press of the remote's CD
 > button.  I need CDJ to select the proper CD input (CD Auto or CD Analog)
 when
 > I choose a track or disc.  The potential problem seems to be that the
 RX-V995
 > defaults to CD Auto (digital) mode on the first manual press of the
 remote's
 > CD button, then advances to CD DTS mode on the next manual press, and
 finally
 > ends on CD Analog mode on the third press.  The fourth press sets the mode
 to
 > default CD Auto.  But if one sets the mode to CD Analog and then uses the
 > remote to switch to, say, VCR 1, the next press of the remote's CD button
 > returns the RX-V995 to its last CD mode, in this case CD Analog.  And if
 CDJ
 > wants to play a track on a CD connected to the CD Auto (digital) port, CDJ
 > will have no way to know in what CD mode the RX-V995 last sat and thus
 will
 > not be able to choose between CD Auto (digital), CD DTS, and CD Analog.
 Can
 > anyone think of a way for CDJ to distinguish CD modes? Perhaps some kind
 of
 > counter could remember the number of presses of the remote's CD button and
 > thus would know the correct number of additional presses required to
 advance
 > the CD mode to the proper input.
  >>