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Although you will primarily control your home theater through the Activities tab, you can control specific devices through the Devices tab. This can be useful for sending commands that you use less frequently, or for making adjustments to the RedEye app if it becomes “out of sync” with a particular device.
Sending Commands
The Device tab gives you access to all of the commands that you have configured for the device, regardless of whether the device is part of the current activity or whether a particular command is mapped to a activity button.
To send a command to a device, first tap on the device row, and then choose Send Command. RedEye will present you with a list of commands for the device. Flick through the list to scroll, or drag your finger down the index column on the right-hand side of the screen. Tap on any row to send a command.
Adjusting a Device
If you are using toggle commands, it is possible that the RedEye system will lose track of your devices. For example, if you are using a Power On/Off command to control your TV, RedEye keeps track of whether the TV is currently on or off. When you launch an activity that requires the TV, if RedEye thinks the TV is already on, then it will leave the TV alone. This works fine until someone turns off the TV by pressing the power button on the front of the set instead of using the RedEye device.
If RedEye thinks your TV is on when it is really off, what should you do? Sending the Power command will have the desired effect (turning it on), but the RedEye will now think the TV is off. What you need to do here is adjust the system. When you adjust a device, RedEye sends a command, but does not “change its opinion” of what it thinks about the device. Back to our example — if RedEye thinks your TV is on when it is really off and you tap Adjust > Power, then RedEye will turn on the set and everything will be in sync.
Although this sounds complicated, in practice it is simple. If you launch an activity and one of your toggle commands is not operating properly, just go to the Devices screen, select the device you need to adjust, then tap on Adjust and tap the appropriate command row until everything is they way you need it.
Because you only need to adjust toggle commands, the Adjust screen only shows the toggle commands you have configured for the device, not the entire list of device commands.