GI 7312 Cable Codes

[crd5014]

Need help. I am upgrading from 7800 to 8811. My old GI (Jerrold) cable box (DPBB7321/V5S6) used a 0003 device code on the 7800. Since the 8811 dosen't accpet the 0003 code for cable, I used this new 0003 code with IR & tried upgrading device with new EFCs using RM trying both GI Cable protocol and Jerrold protocol . No luck. Then I used the 8811 to learn the codes from the 7800 and read the following on the learned signals tab:

Jerrold Protocol, no device or sub device shown.
CH+ OBC=5, EFC=208
CH- OBC=1, EFC=209
Power OBC=7, EFC=210
Prev OBC=6, EFC=206

I tried entering this info in RM, OBC & EFCs would never come out right entering one or the other & would change based upon protocol selected on setup tab.

Ran out of ideas & know how. Any ideas how to procede? Thanks for the help.

[johnsfine]

That symptom means that RM's protocols.ini file disagrees with DecodeIR.dll on the structure of this signal. It turns out they're BOTH wrong. I'll look into fixing them later.

Meanwhile, get the devices4 spreadsheet, which can tell you all the EFC numbers in the 15-1994's version of Cable/0003. Copy those EFC numbers into RM and don't worry that the OBC numbers displayed will be wrong.

[johnsfine]

You can correct RM by changing the first four lines of the Jerrold entry in protocols.ini to be:

[Jerrold]
PID=00 06
CmdTranslator=Translator(lsb)
CmdParms=OBC:5=0

Without that change you need the EFC to be right and the incorrect OBC won't matter. With that change, either correct EFC or correct OBC will make the other correct.

In DecodeIR, the OBC is correct (which is useless for RM, until you make that change to protocols.ini) and the EFC is garbage (useless before or after the change).

[gfb107]

I'll include this change to protocols.ini in the next release of RM.

[crd5014]

Thanks, your suggestions worked! Great job!