JP1 Remotes

Eitnot wrote:Well I am now getting a response. The problems I have now include:

When navigating the menus it sometimes misses a button press for example you have to press right twice sometimes.

For a short PS press you have to hold it in for a couple seconds before it registers.

The long PS button press seems to have to be held a long time before it activates.

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Eitnot wrote:The only thing I think I would miss from the extender is that feature where if you hold a macro button down it continues to do the last signal in the macro.

vickyg2003 wrote: That's because you are not really USING the extender. It can do so many really cool things!!!!! The extender forum used to be pretty active, but for some reason it has just dried up. All the people that end up being addicted to this site use exenders. I've been writing up some how-to examples of using an extender to hopefully drum up some interest.

I know that my first attempts at using an extender looked something like yours. I was happy as a clam. But I wanted those features for my favorite remote. So I got involved in writing a modern extender for an old 7800 remote. Then ElizabethD, gave me a test file, and the lightbulb just went off! Wow! Extenders really let you make your remote into a user friendly remote.

It is really HARD to explain what an extender can do, because everybody has different needs. Trying to find simple real life examples of things that other people can relate to are difficult since nobody has the same equipement.

• Macros are slower without the extender, so you have to be more disciplined in continuing to point the remote at the sensor.
• I can't macro all keys or can macro them but it doesn't disable their default function. Some buttons are just left completely unusable.
• I can't nest macros (I like to make like my turn X, Y, and Z on as a macro on a phantom button and then just nest that into my macros for startup and input selection).
• I can't use LKP to boost the number of functions easily accessible. (With extender, I use a lot of LKP to trigger big actions like input-switching macros.)
• I have limited ability to map different buttons to different devices without the Home Theater feature of the extenders, so I have to use lots and lots of Key Moves to replicate as much as I can. The setup is SO MUCH EASIER with an extender's HT feature.
• Without temporary device selection from an extender, I have to be a lot more careful with Macros or use lots of Key Moves to avoid changing out of the device/activity/whatever that is currently active.
• I don't have access to as many phantom buttons without the extender, and I lose the ability to hide extra functions on obscure buttons with XShift as well.
• Without device multiplexer, I can't stack extra devices into the remote beyond its normal number of devices. For example, I have two DirecTV boxes so it's very natural for them to both end up on the DVR button. With my extended remote, if you LKP the TV button, then all the inputs change to DirecTV 1 and the DVR device is assigned to the first DirecTV...if you LKP the DVR button, then everything changes to DirecTV 2. Without the extender, I have to use two of the precious device slots since the DirecTV has too many buttons to just map them in with Key Moves. For the unextended, I actually don't have my TV on a device and use Key Moves to bring in power on/off, volume up/down, and mute since those are the only functions I need, but that means I have to go OEM to use its menu or anything. =(
• I'm forced to do a lot more with Key Moves, but unextended remotes tend not to have as much room for them. =(

Eitnot wrote:So I tried changing the hex to 1 still did not work. So then I disabled the extender and installed the non extender version still not working. Then I moved the programming cable to backlit version and re-uploaded just to verify and it still works on the backlit version of the Atlas 1056B01 remote. But if I use the same IR file on the non backlit version that remote will not operate the PS3. All the other devices TV, Cable, and audio receiver still works.

Is there a factory reset I should try or something?