What is a good touchscreen configuration?
This is a question that we, as a company, have been working on for years and years and are constantly attempting to improve upon as technology advances. There are however a few basic self-imposed rules that we follow without question. We never, as many remote hobbyists do, create a device based configuration. There is no need to include all the control functions of your devices into a touch screen remote. In fact, it is a bad idea, as you will see later in this article. So this segment of the article will be a discussion of how a well programmed remote should be laid out and what should be incorporated into the programming to make its use simple yet totally functional. Since you are a reader here, you are no doubt aware of the Babysitter Test. The premise is simply that if you leave the remote with the babysitter she can she operate the system without instruction. Truly that is the key to a well-programmed remote. Touching a button on a home page labeled, Watch Live TV should turn on a
