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Resizing or adding buttons is quick and easy. First, you must make space for the new or larger button to fit into. You can do this by either deleting the button (for which you must select a new option from the Adjust Setup Menu), or by making an existing button smaller. The procedure works like this: select the button you want to resize, then pick out the top-left and bottom-right corners, followed by pressing the new shape dead-center. To add a new button, just click on an empty portion of screen first. The editable portion of the UC-616’s screen is arrayed in a logical grid of 6 by 8 units. Although the remote seems technically capable of creating 1 by 1 unit size buttons (since it uses those for the keyboard), the smallest you can create for normal use is 2 by 2 units, the largest a full 6 by 8 units. If you add a new button you’ll automatically be presented, after sizing, with the keyboard to label it.
Moving a button is accomplished with the same screen as resizing – except when selecting what size it will be, start at the top left corner where you would now like it to reside. You cannot move buttons between screen pages or devices. Back on the Adjust Menu, the "Recall" button can be used to reset a device’s layout back to the default settings. There is no automated routine to reset the entire remote.
When they say "35", they mean it!
It was mentioned earlier that the UC-616 can hold a maximum of 42 buttons per device. Subtracting the 7 usable hard buttons, that means the LCD screen can hold 35. But – I can hear you adding this up in your head – if there’s a 6 by 8 grid on each of 4 pages, and the smallest button size is 2 by 2, that means you should be able to get 12 buttons per page – for a total of 48 LCD-based buttons. Right? Well, not quite. No matter how much free room you create on a particular panel – even if you fit 35 buttons onto three panels and keep the fourth entirely free – the remote will flash "FULL" if you try to add a 36th button. Similarly, the two Main Menu panels can only hold 10 buttons, with a maximum of 8 on the first page. This brings up another point: the remote will still display panels that contain nothing. So, if you only use two panels of commands for your television, the remote will continue to page through the remaining blank screens.
The Sequence of Things.
The UCommand 616 can hold up to 12 macros with 20 commands each (though our testing indicated this was actually around 25), stored on three LCD pages. All macros can have custom labels and point to buttons placed on any page of any device. Each step in the macro has an automatic short delay inserted before it, however if you’d like longer times you can press the hourglass symbol displayed at the top right of the screen and select one of 8 pre-configured times between 0.5 and 15 seconds. Selecting a device does not impact on the total possible number of commands per macro, nor does adding a custom delay. Macros are saved by pressing [ENTER].
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