Hey guys,
Awesome, thanks for the replies, you're a generous community. Yeah, 3FG: I"ll pop those babies back into the right order, thanks for having a peek there...quite possible it was just aligned wrong...I'll give'er a whirl and if that doesn't prove useful then I'll sniff out (per your step-by-steps) and see what the issue may be.
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Standby, i have some other tinkering around to do today too like side-load some kodi build into my TV, not sure if it'll work but I'll find my way in and see what's doing...
Anyway, be back in a bit with some results.
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*edit:
K, no dice so far with any of the suggestions. I swapped the green for black at the 6-pin, visually - now I'm not getting the blink-backs from the remote's LED and still the same message of no remotes. I sniffed out with your steps - seems to be no communication with the darn thing. Here's my screenshot...I'm debating swtiching BACK the green/black and sniffing too...just out of curiousity. Here's the info from the sniff.
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and here's what the result was when I swapped the green/blk back:
TIA