Building upon Daniel Tonks' graphics and overall design, with some design elements from David Shaw (a few graphics) and Jon Linville (his clean screen program is effective, as well as his pre-made DVD macros which I used for my DVD changer). I have made the PCF very user - and wife - friendly, and easy to code with a dedicated section for IR codes and macros.

A mixture of quite a few pre-existing templates, plus some new stuff. Graphics taken from Daniel Tonks' template.

In this configeration i used some of the icons from Daniel Tonks version of the 6000 and 7000 and combined so you can see through the device buttons into the background. I also have Australian FTA TV channels and radio icons for melbourne. There is a sleep section which guides you through the steps and set the timer on the reciever and tv, and a zone 2 section to activate the second set of speakers smoothly.

A frameless tabbed design. Includes color PNGs with transparent layer for most of the Dish Network Stations as of 10/28/2006, however it does not include Dish Network PPV stations. This configuration is not based on "action pages," and the station logos could be better in my opinion. However I think it is an effective design for what we use it for which is mainly for viewing video rather than listening to audio. Thus, the design is video based and uses "watch" macro buttons on video source device tabs to turn the system on and off.

Since the TV is used as a monitor and my primary video source is the PVR (which uses the cursor pad for channel +/- functionality), I have used the "hard" channel +/- buttons as power/standby. Standby is only used on those devices that have discrete standby buttons, i.e., the receiver and the VCR. The chael macros for the PVR are our prime means of tuning various stations, and I have added macros (beyond the remote's default functions) for accessing common things like "Schedule" and "Recordings" for the PVR.

A simple design where you can switch to any device at any time.

This clean and simple design was based mainly on "OS X" graphics, device images from "Daniel's TSU3000" together with some of my own images. System begins on the "power" page where you can turn on/off TV, home theater (DVD) & cable with one button, go the the "lighting" page or go the specific device power controls. Across each page are shortcuts to "power", "DVD", "cable", "TV", "lights", "surf" and "activities". "Surf" includes 9 pages classifying channels into favorites, nets, learn, fun, news, sports and music.

This PCF template follows the Tonks standard, with his graphics (and a few others) linked to the IR codes located under a hidden "CODES" tab. I have a fairly simple setup - only 5 devices, with some macros used for the TV where discretes wern't available. Please note that I use the hard buttons for channel up/down, volume up/down, and mute - so these commands do NOT show up on the graphics screens. I have rearranged several of the layouts to get as much functionality on each primary screen as possible - some of the buttons are a little smaller than I'd like, but work well when controlled by a fingernail OR one of the small plastic styluses found with any of today's touch-screen PDAs (Palm, HP, etc). There are a few less-than obvious connections - using the page markers - to get to some hidden pages I wanted access to, but not obvious for the kids (raw codes pages, and other debugging stuff). Have fun!

This TSU-7000 PCF template is an update to my earlier TSU3000 system and follows the Tonks standard, with his graphics (and a few others) linked to the IR codes located under a hidden "CODES" tab.

I have a fairly simple setup - only 4 primary devices (Denon & Sammy) are unused in the background, with some macros used for the TV where discretes weren't available. Please note that I use the hard buttons for channel up/down, volume up/down, and mute - so these commands do NOT show up on the graphics screens. I have rearranged several of the layouts to get as much functionality on each primary screen as possible - some of the buttons are a little smaller than I'd like, but work well when controlled by a fingernail OR one of the small plastic styluses found with any of today's touch-screen PDAs (Palm, HP, etc).

Complete control of my home theater including HTPC and lighting devices.

This design was created with specific ergonomic objectives in mind:

1. Ease-of-vision, particularly by senior citizens. This dictated using relatively large, primary-color icons against a white background. The color scheme was devised by Mr. Gary Hoover, a retired famous movie-industry colorist and graphic artist.
2. To provide self-contained instructions. On each page, depressing the owl "professor" icon leads to one or more text instruction pages.
3. No more than two screens to operate any single device.
4. To use the hard buttons as much as possible.
5. K.I.S.S. i.e., pass the "wife" test.

Most of the graphics are original and were created with Paint Shop Pro 8. The instruction screens were created with Photoshop Elements 2.0.