looking for an idea

[Hunter69]

I have been programming a new universal remote. I have been working with the discrete functions. Tv goes to live tv. Videos goes to recorded tv. Is there a way to create a button to go straight to all my movies in the "my videos" folder?

[CollinR]

Worse case you can always build a macro to do it:

Menu>Down>Down>Right>FF

You can do alot in that manner.

Also with dynamic menus (create menulets) you can tie the two together to do damn near anything.

[stanger89]

Here's what I've got (for my MX880).

For each of my devices I have a real "device" (in URC terms) with all the buttons for that device setup and working correctly, this is basically virtual copy of the real remote. I never actually use this (except for the rare debugging). Eg SageTV

Then I create a activity "device" (eg TV), that is largely a copy of the device that's most interacted with (eg SageTV for TV) but includes other commonly used soft buttons, like Aspect Ratio toggle for the display. And of course I have stuff like volume and mute setup for punchthrough.

Finally I have a launch page that's got the icons/soft buttons for the access to all my "activities" and then I "hide" the real devices on the second page.

Each device has Power On and Power Off variable based macros (I make these separate from the "native" On and Off commands so I can debug things using the real On/Off commands if I need to without the macros making things difficult. Essentially the logic is:

if <device on> == 0
   Power On Command
   Delay until device accepts commands
   Set <device on> = 1
else
   do nothing

For SageTV I have two buttons Power On and Power Off that are Variable based macros:
On:


Off:


Then my "TV" launchpad (first Watch screen) has the following macro:


I have similar macros for stuff like staring my Blu-ray player, Xbox 360, etc.

All of which totally misses the point of your OP You'd have to look through the command list in Detailed setup, but I think there's a "Videos" command, but I'm not sure if it goes to the Videos list or the Media Library which would cause you to have to pick videos still. But yeah, you can always do the button push macros, which with RF should be pretty bulletproof.