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Status Messages for Impatient Clients with Long Macros  

For clients who have problems waiting for long macros to finish, it is helpful to

design the system to give a dramatic status message while the macro is working,

otherwise they may put the remote down in the middle of the macro, frustrating

themselves. This is possible for a system with UP TO 10 DEVICES. Here's how

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to do it:

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This is the kind of status message you can have the remote

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display WHILE a macro is being issued!

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11 Move all of the devices with their IR programming to MAIN Page 2. Just drag and drop them using Create

and Move Devices (Program Menu #1).

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22 Now, create new devices on MAIN Page 1. Duplicate the exact order of MAIN Page 2.

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33 Use LCD Button Editor to label page 1 of each of the first ten devices (the ones on MAIN Page 1 without

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IR codes) with a message that will be visible as long as the macro is working:

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