JP1 Remotes

Hello!

I got a tremendous amount of help in this forum by the Robman and others 3 years ago when I was first going to get a universal remote, and couldn't make head or tales of anything.

I ended getting a "Oneforall" (or URC?) remote which was very simple, but all I needed, called URC-6430.

Only, I was not COMPLETELY in love with it. I thought it was quite heavy (I think they have put some metal weight into it), I didn't like that the number-buttons were at the bottom half instead the top half, but worst of all, I didn't feel it had enough buttons. I found myself needing 1 or 2 buttons more to encode all the functions I used.

I had another remote from the same company, but back from the 1990's, which had 4 more programmable buttons. That's the one I have actually been using day-to-day, and only using the new one when it was absolutely necessary, but now it's begun to show its age. The power-button has stopped working, and now another button doesn't seem to work, either.

So I would like to buy another remote from the same company, but with more buttons, and I was looking at the URC-1916, which is apparently a replacement for a Hisense TV.

https://www.oneforall.com/universal-rem ... ent-remote

But it doesn't say whether or not it has a USB port, and can be programmed. So I don't know if I can program it with RemoteMaster. Does anybody know about whether all remotes from this company have USB ports?

Also, I don't know if it ONLY works for a Hisense TV? I have an LG TV. Is it still possible to train it with the signals from my old remotes?

Hope somebody can help!


Thank you.

Isak

Very few OneForAll brand remotes have a USB port. As far as I know, only the ones with "Simple" in the name have USB.

The URC-1916 isn't currently supported by Remote Master.

However, considering that 99% of the remotes supported by Remote Master have don't have a USB port, that's not a very important consideration.

As Dave said, we don't support this remote yet, but if it has a JP1 connector and if you buy a JP1 cable, we can probably add support for it. However, it appears to be a single device remote, so is it really what you are looking for? I think you really want a universal remote that can control multiple devices.

Would I be right in assuming that you do not have a JP1 cable but have instead been using USB controlled remotes?

If you were US based, I would recommend the OARUSB04G, which is less than $20 USD on Amazon, as it is USB controlled:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HNIHM5S/

I believe the European equivalent is the URC-6540.

If you want greater flexibility you would have to buy an FTDI cable to use as a JP1 cable, then you could buy any One For All remote, just as long as it has a 6-pin connector. More details on the FTDI cables here:
https://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16360

The Robman wrote:If you were US based, I would recommend the OARUSB04G, which is less than $20 USD on Amazon, as it is USB controlled:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HNIHM5S/

I believe the European equivalent is the URC-6540.

The European equivalent is actually the URC-6440, but I do not know if it is still available. I did a web search and the only result for it said it was out of stock and not known when it would again be available.

Someone in Turkey is selling the URC-6440 for nearly $50 a pop on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008WWCHBS

Let's not ignore the op's preference to have the numeric buttons on top, not at the bottom. How about urc-7980 or urc 7880. It had 43 buttons compared to urc-6430, which has 34. You need to buy jp1 cable for installing extender, however
. It add bluetooth function to it. You can talk between rmir and your remote wirelessly. Its numeric buttons are on the top.
It controls 8 devices with one remote.
for urc-7880 limited stock can be purchased here:
https://www.amazon.com/One-All-Urc7880- ... B07VRP2BBP

you need to buy a jp1 cable. I bought mine from ebay shipped from china.