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Entering a two- or three-digit channel number (any channel number above 9) typically requires careful
timing in order to be successful. For example, if you want to enter channel 56, and pause for too long be-
tween pressing the 5 and pressing the 6, your device may change first to channel 5 and then to channel 6,
rather than to channel 56. This may be even more difficult for switch users when scanning from one digit to
the next. The process described below makes sending multi-digit channel commands simpler and faster.
How to create a multi-digit channel command:
1. Navigate to the SDP Externals folder.
a. Click the Start menu and select “My Computer”.
b. Double-click “Local Disk (C:)”.
c. Double-click the “Program Files” folder.
d. Double-click the “Boardmaker with Speaking
Dynamically Pro” folder.
e. Double-click the “SDP Externals” folder to open
it.
2. Depending on the media device you will be using,
click one of the following four files (you may not see
the .vbs extension):
TV_201.vbs
Cable_201.vbs
VCR_201.vbs
Satellite_201.vbs
3. From the Edit menu, select Copy.
4. From the Edit menu, select Paste. (This duplicates the
original file, so you can make additional multi-digit
channel commands.)
5. From the File menu, select Rename. Type the desired
channel number in place of ‘201’ in the filename.
For example, to make a command file to change the
TV channel to 56, rename the file ‘TV_56’ (or
‘TV_56.vbs’).
Note that the filename should begin with the name
of the device you are controlling, followed by an
underscore character (_), then the channel number.
The filename must end with a .vbs extension. If the
file extensions are hidden, you don’t need to add
the extension. If the extension was there to begin
with, then you should keep it.
6. Repeat steps 2 through 5 for each multi-digit
channel you would like to access.
If you purchased SDP software with your Mercury, a
pre-made set of boards that perform remote control
functions is installed in the
SDP Sample Boards
folder in
the
My Boards
folder under
My Documents
.
Now you can edit individual Boardmaker buttons in
these boards for each multi-digit channel you wish to
access.
1. In Design Mode, double-click a button you wish to
use to access a channel.
2. Select
Launch Application
from the button’s Action
menu, under the
Cool Stuff
category.
3. Choose the file for the channel you wish to access
with this button.
4. Switch to Use Mode and try it out!
Selecting Multi-digit Channels with Speaking Dynamically Pro
®