Slingbox code for SatZen Z500

hollywoodcg · Post by **hollywoodcg** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 11:40 am

I have looked every where for slingbox codes for SatZen Z500. None have worked. If possible can someone build a custom remote?

michaelredd · Post by **michaelredd** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:11 pm

I too need the codes for the satzen z500. I have tried the nano2 and the satzen z300 codes that someone posted in another forum but they do not work. My wife and I are going on a roadtrip to her families house soon and would realy appreciate any help. I can even send something via paypal for your time if you can figure this out for me as I do not have the experience / time needed to complete this task.
Thanks in advance for any help.

alanrichey · Post by **alanrichey** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:55 am

I can't build a Custom Remote for this box as it has not appeared in the Logitech database (Without access to the original remote I have to load it on my Harmony Universal Remote) so you need to check out http://betaremotes.slingbox.com/

michaelredd · Post by **michaelredd** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:58 pm

If I were to buy a logitech harmony remote, what would be the process for getting the codes from the logitech into the files needed to place into the slingbox directory. I have a good understanding of normal learning remotes but have not ever had to make a file for my slingbox and cant seem to find the directions to do so.
The link you placed works up until the time that it asks for my model and then cannot find it and will not go any further without choosing.
Thanks and appreciate your help though.

EDIT:
Found this, https://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload ... le_id=6413 which may help the right person that has the original remote in hand to figure this one out. Im looking into it now and will post the solution if I can figure it out.

alanrichey · Post by **alanrichey** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:42 am

If you bought a Harmony then you could use it to learn the codes and produce a working system for your device. You could then upload that to my Logitech account and I could use it to produce a Slingbox file for you.

But with Logitech Harmony's running at $100 it would be cheaper to buy an IR Wodget ($35) and use my article you found to do it yourself

Post by **vickyg2003** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:52 am

One of the benefits of the Widget is that it will capture the raw timings of ANY signal. I don't know what limitations the Harmony remote has when it comes to learns, but our UEI JP1 remotes, and some Philips Prontos, have a real hard tiime learning certain protocols like the XMP. UEI developed the XMP signal and UEI remotes can't learn XMP, so one can only beieve it was designed to be unlearnable.

alanrichey · Post by **alanrichey** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:17 am

Vicky

The Harmony can learn any codes but unlike a JP remote you cannot subsequently access them in any way. All you can do is build a 'device' on your remote.

So, for example, I have a 'device' where most of the buttons operate my PVR, but the volume control operates the TV and I 'learnt' a code from my remote lighting controller which I mapped onto a spare button on the remote. But I cannot do anything else with this 'device', it is just stored on the Logitech database in my account and there is no way to look inside it.

So the Harmony is useful to 'mimic' other remotes, but to learn any of the codes you still need a Widget or UE1 remote.

Post by **The Robman** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:31 am

vickyg2003 wrote:UEI developed the XMP signal and UEI remotes can't learn XMP, so one can only believe it was designed to be unlearnable.

Actually, they didn't develop it, they acquired it by buying it from someone else. Plus, while it's difficult to learn for our JP1 remotes, based on their 10-pair limit, it's not difficult to learn for the Philips Pronto because they just learn the raw signal and they have no pair limit.

alanrichey wrote:The Harmony can learn any codes but unlike a JP remote you cannot subsequently access them in any way. All you can do is build a 'device' on your remote.

True, but we still have the option where a Harmony user can load their learned codes into your Harmony web account, which will let you load them into your Harmony and then re-capture them using your Widget.

But in this case the OP doesn't have a Harmony, so them buying a Widget is by far the best and cheapest solution.

3FG · Post by **3FG** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:23 pm

The Robman wrote:[Plus, while it's difficult to learn for our JP1 remotes, based on their 10-pair limit, it's not difficult to learn for the Philips Pronto because they just learn the raw signal and they have no pair limit.

I don't have any experience with Pronto class remotes, but based on the traffic at RemoteCentral, my impression is that Prontos (and URC, RTI, etc.) struggle with XMP. Of course, only the people who have problems are likely to post about it, so I suppose it could be simply operator error, rather than a fundamental problem in the remotes.

On the other hand, in response to the statement that XMP is hard to learn, one poster there claimed that his Sony RM-VL610 learned it without difficulty.

alanrichey · Post by **alanrichey** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 5:51 pm

Test Remote uploaded at https://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload ... le_id=8613

alanrichey · Post by **alanrichey** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 1:59 pm

Now proven and a full version is at https://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload ... le_id=8618