URC 6131 forgets upgrade

ellobob13 · Post by **ellobob13** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:39 am

I have upgraded a URC 6131 with new codes and it had been working fine for at least a year. But lately it forgets the upgrade. By that I mean that it acts like there is no EEPROM. I try to reprogram the device with my upgrade code 1999 and it just blinks twice. Today I removed a battery and replaced it and I could reprogram the device button but the key moves are not there. Usually I can upload to the remote and it starts working again for a couple of weeks.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance!

Post by **vickyg2003** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:55 am

If your battery was dying, things in your eeprom can get corrupted. The remotes all do different things to try and "cure" themselves. Often rewriting the signature and all the setup codes.

Are you running an extender? If so, the rewriting of the signature makes it appear that all keymoves have disappeared, when infact IR is pulling up the wrong RDF.

ellobob13 · Post by **ellobob13** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:05 pm

No I am not running an extender. The batteries seem to be good I did not replaced them and they work for a few weeks. I do use the remote a lot with my home theater.

ellobob13 · Post by **ellobob13** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:38 am

I encountered this problem again last night. This time, removing the batteries did not help. I downloaded (or uploaded) the eeprom from the remote and compared it. it appears that all of the keymoves and the devices are in there but I just cannot program the device button. The device codes for 2 buttons have been changed. And these are devices I created (that is the codes that had been reverted).

I load the file, then upload to the remote then all is well for a while.

unclemiltie · Post by **unclemiltie** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:49 am

Vicky's post may well be what is going on here. All of these remotes have "failsafe" code in them that when things go wrong they go back and try to reset the remote to a known state. This includes resetting all of the device setup codes to the default. I don't know about the internals of the 6131 so I can't say what it does, but the suggestion of new batteries is where I'd start.

If that's not it, you may have some other kind of hardware failure that is intermittent and it may be the sign that you're going to need a new remote.

ellobob13 · Post by **ellobob13** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:32 am

Thanks for your reply. I will put in new batteries and I will most likely buy another jp1. I am looking at a URC 8910. I have a 15-2133 also but for home theater usage the auto dim is a pain.

Cheers
Richard

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