JP1 Remotes

Xero · Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 33 Location: pennsylvania

Alright so after many adventures with JP1 my setup is working perfectly until this morning where my IR reciever for my computer DVR decides to die...so I went over to radioshack, and picked up the parts to build a serial IR receiver. Now that that's done I can use basically any protocol I want (unlike my old receiver which only supported the rc-5 protocol, and partially at that.) Now my question is, is there a setup code that uses every button on my remote, a RS 15-2117? Since the IR interface I just made will support basically any protocol I throw at it, if I can find a setup code already on the remote that uses every button on it, I can avoid having to do any keymoves or anything to get every button working with my computer...I have no idea how to tell which codes use which buttons without manually going through every single setup code...and that'd take a bit too long anyway...so any ideas?

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Xero · Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 33 Location: pennsylvania

jon_armstrong · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:04 pm Post subject:

How about creating a device upgrade using device type=Cable (assuming it has the most assignable buttons), select Button Codes=OBC. I would think NEC2 would be an easily recognized protocol. Pick some thing like device=255 and sub-device=255 (I don't think I've ever seen that combination so it shouldn't conflict with anything else). In the functions tab enter OBC's 0 to 100 and then assign them to buttons in the buttons tab.

These instructions should be generic enough to work in KM or RM.
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Mark Pierson · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:

Xero · Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 33 Location: pennsylvania

Thanks, that was a good idea. It gets all the keys working, however it's not working as good with the IR receiver as a setup code I tried randomly (1058 for sony receivers) I have no idea what protocol that uses but I'd like to try doing the same thing with the protocol 1058 uses...for some reason it is much more response using that one.

zaphod7501 · Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 534 Location: Peoria Illinois

It's possible that your receiver is frequency sensitive. (besides any possible timing or data structure issues) Most Sony protocols are at 40Khz , I believe. You can see this info in the "learned signals" portion of IR if you've captured some commands. There's probably a list of frequencies matched with protocols but I haven't found it yet.

Fortunately my remotes (URC-8810 and URC-6131) have several types that map all the buttons except for the 3 PIP buttons ( which only show up on TV).
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Xero · Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 33 Location: pennsylvania

Xero · Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 33 Location: pennsylvania

I used the sony 12/15 protocol and mapped the keys as shown above and now everything seems to be working perfectly.