[slinkelist] Help with Device Files

[Ian Cole]

Since you are using analog at times, why not go 100% analog, buy a mixer &
use a single input?

I use the multimixer 10 for this purpose - I purchased locally at a MARS
music store

http://www.midiman.com/midiman/html/products/mixers.htm

This would do up to 5 changers (10 Channels = 5 stereo)

Then, you use a single analog input (one that doesn't change each time you
hit the button on the remote)

It isn't the most elegant solution, but you also aren't depending on as much
IR control, which in my book, is ALWAYS better :>)

Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: <AndyStein@aol.com>
To: <slinkelist@nirvis.com>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 2:41 AM
Subject: Re: [slinkelist] Help with Device Files


>     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.
>   >>
>
>
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