User Guide
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Macros Send RC Commands To Your System

You canmake any or all of the 255 steps send an RC
command to your system. The step is actually just a recording
of the location of any button on any device panel. To record an
RC command, you simply navigate to the panel and button you
want, then touch it. Thus, all RC commands in a Macro must
first be taught to a device panel button, a direct access button
(the Mute, Channel or Volume buttons) or a device action
(typically the preamp/receiver source selection command that is
issued when you select a new device group from home or the
device menu).
You cannot learn a new IRcommand. The Macro side of the
RC5000i does not have the LEARN mode available.
You cannotrecord a button on a Home or Macro panel as a
step in a macro. However, you can record a “device action,”
which is what a home button really does (see page 26).

Macros Can Delay Between Steps

You canprogram a delay as any or all of the 255 steps of a
macro.
You canadjust that delay in 1/10th of a second intervals
between .1 and 99.9 seconds.
Customizing Your RC5000i
6. Programming Macros & Panel Jumps
You will do all of your Macro/Jump programming within a window
that will appear after you press the EDIT button on the Macro Mode
menu. Before proceeding with programming, make sure that you
understand how to move around in the Edit window and how to
read the RC5000i’s shorthand notation for each macro step (see
page 43).
1 Write a list of all of the actions in the operation you want to
record.
2 Play with all of the example Macro groups. Are any of these