ElizabethD wrote:I won't do that, but what does it mean?
If you knew what it means, and the device has support for it, and you somehow find the device specific instructions, I'm pretty sure you would do that, because it is exactly the right solution to your problem.
Many remote controlled consumer devices are built with support for a second code set. There is some proceedure (not a hardware mod) to tell the device to use the other code set. The professional installers who frequent RemoteCentral often can get the manufacturers to tell them the proceedure and some of those proceedures have been shared there. But the manufacturers tend not to describe it in the online or printed documentation nor to answer that question if asked by ordinary users.
For comparison, one method used by several devices to switch code sets is:
1) Unplug the device (power off is not enough)
2) Wait at least 30 seconds
3) Plug it back in
4) Immediately press and hold the remote power toggle key of a remote already programmed to the second code set.
Devices with complicated menu systems often have a step somewhere in their menu tree that lets you change code sets.
JVC documentation I have lists the device number for VCR's as 67 by default with other choices being 83, 111, and 127. That fits the data I have from RC that JVC VCRs are device number 67 and can be changed if you know how to device 83.
That same JVC document says DVD's are device 111 by default with other choices being 127, 67 and 83. But that of course is wrong, because JVC DVDs are device 239.
But the person who wrote that document was clearly taking input from a document with the numbers in binary. Maybe he just missed the top bit. 111 and 239 differ only in their top bit. So if that's the explanation, the second choice would be device 255 (differs in only the top bit from 127).
All the OBC numbers stay the same when you change the device number. So one path is to take a JP1 upgrade for the JVC DVD and change the device to 255 and see if you can find a way to make the DVD player switch to it.
what I'm talking about here, I see that the signal properties are identical in structure though the timings differ a bit. While this is a temporary situation, I wonder if there's a way to tweak my DVD upgrade in PB making it different from the other machine, so that when I press 3 on the recorder, it won't toggle Power on my DVD for instance. Now, it's already been tweeked a bit by adding repeats. So how much tolerance is there?
. I find the whole thing weird, is it? Does that sort of confusion happen often, doesn't 239 belong to JVC and ME and not some other box?
and it makes perfect sense. Thank you very much for digging this out for me.