TimH wrote:Yep, I have the OEM remote fully decoded now and I'm building a new KM file. What device number should I use? Is there an excepted standard for making new devices?
Quick terminology lesson. A "device code" (or "device number" as John Fine likes to call them) is the code built into the signal itself, you have no choice here but to use the ones that you found in the learned signals.
I suspect what you meant to ask is "what
'setup code' should I use?". The short answer is, any code you like, but there are some guidelines. Don't re-use a built in setup code number that you are already using for some purpose. For example, if you are using TV/0156 for your TV, don't call the upgrade TV/0156 or it will override the built in code, but you could call it VCR/0156.
If there is an existing UEI code for this device that is not in your remote, and you know the code number, please call it that as it makes things simpler in the future when someone downloads your upgrade and they start asking questions about it. If you are replacing a code that is in your remote, we generally add 1000 to the UEI setup code number. So for example, if you are replacing the built in TV/0156 code, you might call it TV/1156. The maximum setup code number is 2047, so if you are replacing VCR/1162, for example, you might call it VCR/1262 or VCR/1062.
If there is no corresponding UEI code that you know of, then call the upgrade whatever you want. Basing it on the model number of the device in question is usually a good idea, especially with LCD remtoes. For example, when I created the upgrade for my Raite AV715 DVD player, I called it DVD/0715. (I've since discovered that there is a UEI code for this, which is DVD/0665).