This page of the Device Description Wizard (DDW) does a number of things.
Select the ways this device can be controlled by checking the appropriate check boxes (in our example, the DVD player is controlled by IR). Each selection will generate additional pages in the DDW to walk through capturing the codes. Note that some remote controls have an "A" and a "B" setting on them to allow you to control two components of the same type (e.g., two VCRs in the same room). This is referred to as multiple code sets and the Device Description Wizard supports entering multiple code sets by creating different Device Description Files - one for each code set.
Set up the test setup using the dropdown boxes to select the actual physical connections that are connected from the Domain Controller to the AV component. This step is very important because you want to fully test the component before completing the DDW.
If the AV component is a DVD player that can play both DVDs and CDs, then check the first check box under "Audio". This will auto generate entertainment Browser GUI buttons for both the "Audio/Video" and "Audio" categories and allow you to listen to the CD without turning on the TV. Later, if you decide you do not want one of these buttons, you can remove it with the "Preferences" menu on the AV Entertainment layer of the Design Module.
If the component can control volume, check the second check box. When the path is set up from some source to some set of speakers in a room, the Ubiquity software will default to using the closest AV component in the path to the speakers that can control volume as the component that controls volume. However, on a per source and per room basis, you can define the component that you want to control the volume - provided it controls volume (that is, provided this check box is checked). This is done with the "Preferences" menu on the AV Entertainment layer of the Design Module.
Some AV components are really 2 or more components in the same box. For example, an AV surround receiver with an internal AM/FM receiver or a satellite receiver with a built in PVR. To handle these cases, enter the number of additional sources the AV component has and the DDW will generate the commands necessary to control those sources, as well.
In the example below, the "1" has been entered in the box. The DDW then created the next row of boxes.
Use the "Type" dropdown to select the type of internal source it is. This is the same "type" as you had on the first page of the DDW.
The Ubiquity software needs a Destiny IR command name that it knows about to select the internal source. If you have already created an input connector group for the source, then the DDW has already created a Destiny command named "select <name>" where <name> is the name you gave that input connector group.
Usually, you have already created an input "Connector group" for the internal source. If this is the case, then use the "Connector" dropdown to select the name of that connector group. In the example below, an input connector group name "Tuner" had been created. It has AM and FM antennas as its ports.
If the internal source does not have an input connector group that has already been created, then do not use the Connector dropdown. Instead, enter a name in the "Name" text box and Ubiquity will create a "select <name>" IR code based on that name.
In our example above, after selecting the "Tuner" "Connector", the DDW deleted the "Name" field, as shown below. It also knew that the only audio signals are coming into the Turner connector group. Therefore, it did not need for you to choose whether this internal source had either an audio or video only mode of operation.
