How configure Motorola Cable Box

Archives Configuration and Setup
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A couple of question regarding configuration of Roomie.

I’m having trouble configuring my motorola cable box. I want to turn the box on for all activities and turn off when I hit the power off key. The motorola device settings are configured set to power on for all activities. The problem is whenever I switch activities the motorola box power toggles. I expected Roomie to maintain state and not send any commands to the cable box until the off key is selected. The only work around I can think of is to create a standalone activity to enable the cable box but that kind of defeats the point of activites. Any ideas?

I haven’t been able to find any description of what the Request Conformation options does. I’ve tried setting it on and off and haven’t perceived any operational difference.

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For a device only capable of Power Toggle, you would not want to set that as Power for All Activities. Normally you would set it as a Power Device for a particular activity which would be a common configuration. If instead you want it to be on for multiple Activities and then off for System Off, you’d probably want to create a System On button to toggle it on and that would serve as the counter to System Off for it.

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For the Motorola DCH3200 used by Comcast, we use these commands to simulate the discrete ON and OFF:

ON: info - power - power

OFF: info - power