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The activity didn start correctly, the help button worked, but the activity didn work right the next time. Whats going on?

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The activity didn start correctly, the help button worked, but the activity didn work right the next time. Whats going on?

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When an activity doesn’t start correctly, it can be for several reasons. If it’s happening on a regular basis (and not due to something blocking the IR signals from getting to the devices), this is likely due to a timing issue. The most likely culprits are the inter-device delay and the power on delay. The inter-device delay corresponds to the time a device needs to process IR signals it sees and determine if it’s intended for that device or not. Since the device can likely see the IR signals intended for all devices, it might be busy processing commands for other devices and miss commands actually intended for it. The power on delay corresponds to the time needed for the device to power on and ready itself for commands. The Harmony remote will send commands for other devices during the power on delay, but it will not send any other signals for that device until the power on delay time has elapsed. It should be noted that the help button does NOT reprogram the remote in any way. It’s s

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