Skip on Motorola DCT 6412

e.axel · Post by **e.axel** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:34 am

Has anyone come up with a way to implement a timed skip on the Motorola DCT6412 DVR?

e.axel · Post by **e.axel** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:47 pm

As a follow up, in the AVS forum users DO refer to a working 30 second skip macro. Does anyone here have it?

Dilligaf · Post by **Dilligaf** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:34 pm

Cbl 0476 efc 0173 is 30 second skip forward. Efc 0179 is 15 second back.

Mike

Edited to include correct efcs.

e.axel · Post by **e.axel** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:09 pm

Thank you. I did find it in one of the published upgrades. I am a happier camper now!

andyross · Post by **andyross** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:50 am

Just a note that the 30-second skip may not work on all systems. It does NOT work with the Microsoft software used by Comcast in Washington state. In other areas, it tends to come and go depending on firmware updates.

A good link with Motorola DVR remote information (the Comcast silver remote is made by UEI/OneForAll):
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_to_use ... the_Remote

cywelchjr · Post by **cywelchjr** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:10 pm

Not only is the comcast remote made by UIE, depending on the model it's either JP1.1 or JP1.2 and it nicely configurable. I just wish it could be made to handle more than 3 devices.

Post by **The Robman** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:03 pm

You can use the pause special protocol...
https://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload ... le_id=4277

e.axel · Post by **e.axel** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:38 pm

I have been trying (unsuccessfully) for a couple of days to implement a 3 minute skip using 6 FF (30 sec skip) and the Pause Protocol. I have uploaded my IR File axelnew8910
Rob: will you please take a look at this.
Thanks
Elliot

Post by **The Robman** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:33 pm

What do you want me to look at? Do you have a file or something?

e.axel · Post by **e.axel** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:57 pm

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" I have uploaded my IR File axelnew8910 ". I just can't get the links right!
It is in the diagnosis area.
Thanks
Elliot

Capn Trips · Post by **Capn Trips** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:42 am

Try this.

Capn Trips · Post by **Capn Trips** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:21 am

Your macro executes the following:

FFwd
EFC 011 from your VCR/1493 device upgrade (not a "Pause")
FFwd again
EFC 011 again
and repeats this a few times.

I don't know what EFC 011 does, but at the end of the sequence, I would expect your CBL device to be Fast-Forwarding.

I think you are mixing up 2 separate things:

Dilligaf wrote:Cbl 0476 efc 0049 is 30 second skip forward.

This is not a macro. This is a straight EFC that (if it works for your unit) could/should be assigned via Keymove to whatever button you want. If it works properly, it will cause whatever is playing on your DVR to skip ahead 30 secs. (I note that in your CBL device (VCR/1493) you have this EFC assigned to the left arrow. If your upgrade is based on CBL/0476 - as it appears to be - then have you tested to see if this EFC works as a 30-sec. skip?)

If that function does not work on your unit, then you can create a macro to emulate that behaviour. I don't know anything about your unit's FFwd speeds, but typically, this involves three distinct steps:
(1) a "FFwd" command (or several, if perhaps 1 press of FFwd gives you 2x speed and 3 presses gives you 12x speed),
(2) a pause command to allow the PVR to advance a bit, and then
(3) a "Play" command to stop the fast-forwarding.

Your step (2) is not executing a Pause (see below), and you have no step (3).

In your IR file, I see NO Pause functions created. The Keymoves for a Pause should be built on the Special Functions page, and utilise the Pause device (TV/1104). What you have done on the Keymoves page is assign some unknown (and immaterial in this case) EFCs from the VCR/1493 device to Phantom 1 and Phantom 2 and called them Pauses.

I recommend building the Pause Keymoves in KM (the Protocol Help sheet explains how to do this) and import those keymoves from KM. Then build a macro calling on those Pauses as I describe above.

You will have to tweak the duration of the Pause to get the total time that is Fast-Forwarded through calibrated to whatever interval you desire (30 secs, 1 min, 5 min, whatever). Remember that the "Pause" time is not the time interval you want to advance your PVR. It is the time you want to elapse between executing the FFwd function and executing the Play function - usually between 1-5 secs.

Capn Trips · Post by **Capn Trips** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:07 am

e.axel wrote:Quote
" I have uploaded my IR File axelnew8910 ". I just can't get the links right!

To embed a url, replace the {} below with []:

{url=http://www.capnsdiner.com/menu/lunch/quesadilla} THIS PART WILL APPEAR IN BLUE AND WILL BE A CLICKABLE LINK{/url}

and will look like:
THIS PART WILL APPEAR IN BLUE AND WILL BE A CLICKABLE LINK

P.S. That's not a real website so the link points to nowhere.

e.axel · Post by **e.axel** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:00 am

Thanks much I will tryy again later. House is being painted & getting in the way of everything at the moment.
I did try the KM build originally, but was not sure where everything wnet in the final product...

e.axel · Post by **e.axel** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:27 am

Capn:
It is obvious that I have been misinterpreting something in the KM Special Protocol help. I have been using RM for a while, and have to reorient to the KM format again.
In brief answer to some of your analysis. Protocol for the cable box (1493) is based on 0476. Downloaded it from the File Area (upgrades). 30 sec skip works fine. I just have to start with a clean sheet and see if it all comes together.
The efc 011 thing was the 1 sec pause from the pause protocol instructions that I misinterpreted..
I will get back to this later today. Just woke up (almost).
Thanks again
Elliot
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