I'm starting the re-writing of build book (for a few reasons) for my bedroom system which is the easiest and simplest of the three AVR based systems that I have. The reasons are; 1). I'm getting older and my memory isn't what it once was. Who am I kidding, it was never there but at sometime in the future, I'm sure it will get worse. 2). Allowing me to restore the system to the baseline after tinkering with it. and 3.) trouble shooting a problem.
Here are a couple of example that I experienced yesterday.
1.) Going through the documentation process ( I call them build-books) I discovered that the AVR in the master bedroom has blue-tooth capability. This allowed me to ditch the cheap blue-tooth to stereo converter and has freed up a pair of connections on the back of the AVR as well thus reducing the wiring complexity.
2.) I incorporate screen shots with some explanation in this build book. I took lots of pics of the scene memory settings but spotted inconsistencies among them. I cleaned those memory settings up, deleted the 80 or so old pics that I took to support the build-book, took about 1/4 of new ones reflecting the cleaned version of the scene setups. I also figured out how I was going to tackle the writing of that section which also helped in reducing the number of pics required. After cleaning up the scene inconsistencies, I decided to reprogram my old Logitech remote but I could not remember the account or password for the old remote. I subsequently had to reprogram the thing from scratch; adding 6 devices, adding 8 activities, learning some IR commands from the original remotes, adding additional buttons to the screens and putting in a new wall paper background to improve on the legibility of the screen. The new corrected scene pics I took sure saved me a lot of time with setting up the remote.
The remote pics
