The following are just simple html tables that approximate the button layout for the OneForAll Cinema 6/7 remotes without the top row of "Device Buttons" that reset the layout when punched to control a specific device. If you would like to use this approach for your own layout and definitions, use your browser to save this page to your hard drive and take a look at the production notes below for some editing tips.
My approach to the following reference sheets was;
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ViewSonic Projector & LaskoFan
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Sony Compact Audio (Kitchen)
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XM Radio Receiver
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Samsung DVD/VCR Combo
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Pioneer Recevier/Amp
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X10 Controller
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M1 |
Power on all Viewing Devices Set All Devices for Viewing Select DVD Mode End with DVD Button Selected |
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M2 |
Turn On Couch Lights Turn Off All Other Lights in Projector and Adjacent Rooms Dim Couch Lights to 40% |
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Projector Aspect Ratio |
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Vertical Keystone Setting Use DVD L4 Button to adust Keystone to -19 (minus 19) |
Most Browsers should be able to easily print these tables, but you will probably need to control the printing to avoid spliting the tables across page breaks.
However, just discovered that while Mozill/FireFox renders the table background colors correctly, Internet Explorer Discards colors within the tables.... only suggestion I have is to use Mozilla to print.
I found that the easiest way to proceed was to highlight each table, then select Print/Selection
I also helped to use a printer that offered a "print preview" page to assure that I was about to print what I expected.
After printing each table on a separate page, trim the top edge of each table, then collect them together matching the left margin and top edge. Find the widest table and trim the stack to fit that, then find the longest table and trim the bottom to fit that one.
In these sample tables, the fonts within each table are
the same, so you can use your html editor to select an entire table and
change the font size for the entire table to resize it to meet your size
requirements.
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Controlled Device
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OneForAll
URC 8810 to 9911Template
I think all five OneForAll remotes that fall in this model
range will match the template below.
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Controlled Device
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The two sample tables above are unmodified copies of of the default layout of Cinema 6 or 7 and 8910 devices showing the default lables on the remote. An easy way to start is to copy the entire sample table and then paste in into your html editor onto a new blank page as many times as your device has buttons. If you plan to make changes to all tables, make them before you copy and paste to eliminate the need to make duplicate changes.
If you use KeyMaster for custom definitions, open the update for the device layout you are using and select the "Key Map" tab, then size your editor and Keymaster to each take up half of the screen.
Each table above consists of two tables, one with cells for all buttons nested into a single cell table. You can set the background color for the single cell such as the Power button shown above plus you have the option for adding notes and images, shift states, etc, above and below the button table.
For the X10 table, I simply added a second "column" to the background table, then added a 16 row two column table to hold the X10 button assignments. If needed, you could do the same for any device that needed more complete button information such as the stations assigned to receiver presets.
To "gray out" a label description, highlight the text, select the text color option in your html editor and set the color to gray.
On devices with just a few defined buttons, using a different text color allows you to easily spot them in the layout.
When you are finished, you can print the tables out and build a small reference booklet to keep with or near the remote. If you have access to a network or the internet where you use the remote, such as a net TV or pocketpc, you can simply reference the html page when needed, in my case, I would keep a copy of the page on my PocketPC and use IE to call it up when I get lost.
Since HTML tables are "flexible" to match any platform they expand or contract depending on the content in their cells, the demo tables above sized and printed differently due to the amount of content in each table.
To address this, select an entire table and increase the font size to force those tables roughly match the others.
In my case, I printed out the exact steps to setup a "viewing session" (in 18 point bold text so that it is easily visible in dim light) printed it on the back of the image below, then laminated the result so that it woun't easily go lost or detoriate with time. The steps on the back of the image refer to the labels added to the image.
As mentioned above, "color coding" the device buttons with paint pens and placing a piece of matching color tape on each device makes for a much friendlier setup for the technophobes in your life. As you can see from the image below, paint has a tough time adhering to the soft buttons, so clean them with a solvent before painting. I also used marking pens to give the two macro buttons a different appearance.
links
Beginners Gospel http://www.hifi-remote.com/jp1/help/index.shtml
Forums http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=1
Connector Pics http://jp1.filebug.com/pics.htm
"Updates" (OEM Remote Programming Maps) used to program a remote to mimic an OEM's remote http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload.php?action=category&cat_id=4
IR Apps and rdf's (definition of Porgrammable Remotes) used to tell
apps how to build the binary updates for each type of programmable remote.
http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload.php?action=category&cat_id=7