SP Controls PX2-NRC-1142 - Manual (Page 14)

Advanced Configuration - 6. Customization
In this step you can fine-tune the configuration. You should have already created most of your action
lists automatically in previous steps, but now you can finalize all of the actions that will take place at
every single event: button-pressing events, automation events (like a change in power state or sens-
ing a contact closure), or scheduled timer events. Each of these events needs its own unique action
list.
Action List Editing (Advanced Functions)
In this section you can group commands together in “round robin” fashion (commands or groups of
commands occur on subsequent button presses,) or as macros (all codes sent with one button
press). You can add in “while held” functionality (command repeats while the user holds the button
down). You can do “event chaining” (one event’s action list can contain other events, which have their
own action lists inside of them, which could contain other events).
Round Robin Action Lists
These are action lists that don’t send all of their commands in a single button press. In some cases,
certain devices may alternate between two different codes for the same function. For example, you
may wish to toggle between Mute On and Mute Off with a single button, but the device RS-232 uses
two separate commands for On and Off. This would be a good case for a round robin action list.
Click on the button you want to edit to bring up the “Edit Action List” window. Once you’re in there,
check the box that says “Action List is Round Robin”. Your action list may already be populated with
all the actions that you want. If not, you can add commands by clicking the Add button. Then you’ll
need to indicate which action it should stop after. To do that, click on the pencil icon next to the action
you want the stop to occur at, then check the box that says “Stop here on a round robin command”.
When you close that window, your result should look like this (but with your own commands instead):
The “Stop” underneath Options indicates that the first command will be sent on the first button press,
and the second one will be sent on the second. On the third button press in a row, the first command
will be sent again.
Round Robin/Macro Combination Lists
You can enter several actions into a list before entering a stop, and then enter several more before
adding additional stops. This would configure the NRC to send the first group of commands the first
time the button is pressed and the second group of commands the next time the button is pressed, et
cetera.
“While Held”
This function configures an action to repeat as long as the button is held. “While held” actions are
generally placed by themselves in action lists. If a “while held” action is part of a longer list, it must be
placed at the end of that list (the “Edit Action List” window won’t allow you put it anywhere else).
To configure a command with “while held”, open the “Edit Action List” window, click the pencil icon
next to the action you wish to have that functionality, and check the box inside the “Edit Action” win-
dow that says, Send command only while button held down.
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These tabs allow you to select
which TCM code set you can
view/edit.
Power ON automation generates actions
anytime the system is turned on (whether by
a button press, power polling, etc.); Startup
automation generates actions when the
NRC reboots (like after a power outage)
Use these buttons to create
action lists that can be trig-
gered by the scheduler (see
Event Chaining on page 26)
Mouse over the input selection buttons
to see current action lists. In the exam-
ple on the right, you can see that upon
pressing input selection 2, one com-
mand will be sent to the receiver, one to
the switcher, and one to the projector.
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