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Testing

In most home theater systems, you will find that some codes have to be learned. You may have a brand new

component whose codes are not yet in the Universal Database or you may have most of the codes for a

component, but a few are missing. To find out what you'll need to learn, you must rigorously test all of the codes

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you have programmed using the IR Database and correctly label the buttons that have to be learned. Of course

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you can simply test a button and if it doesn't work, go into learn mode, test the command, relearn as necessary

and so on. However, this wastes time. The best approach is to download, test all the commands, make a list, then

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use MXEditor to modify labels, and delete unnecessary codes.

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When you choose Download from the File Menu or click on the Download button on the Toolbar, the Download

window appears.There are two choices for downloading:

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programming (before any learning or macro programming has been accomplished) is really the only time you can

use this option. It does save you time!

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commands, macros and programming are downloaded to the remote control.

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1    Test  ALL Buttons  

Begin testing the codes you downloaded to the MX Remote Controls. Make sure that you test all

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buttons (hard buttons and the LCD buttons on each page or every device). Don't try to learn new

commands yet, wait until you can do all of them at once systematically.

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2    Make a List of all buttons that don't work.

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3    Compare the original remote control to the MX Remote Control. Add missing functions that need to be

learned to the List.

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