JP1 Remotes

sweh · Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Posts: 36

I'm not a JP1 beginner. Honest. I've had a 15-2104 since 2001 or 2002. I bought an 8811 from Rob in 2002, and 2 more in 2009. (I've worn out 2; on the last one... fortunately I have some 15-2104s new in box in my basement for when the last 8811 dies). I've got extenders and macros and stuff. All cool!

Last week my BluRay player died. I've got a new one arriving any day now.

Oh no! That means I've got to reprogram. And, oh 'eck... it's been almost 3 years (Feb 9 2010) since I've had to reprogram anything (the previous time was Jan 2009, and before that was Sep 2008). Because everything was stable, I kinda dropped out of the community. I don't even have a Windows machine, any more!

Heck, I was still using IR802 and keymap-master 8.26.

If I can't get those old tools working in VirtualBox talking to USB then I might have some problems. I might even need to see what new tools you've all come up with in the past 3 years!

Nice to know my account still works, though Smile

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Stephen

The Robman · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 9:18 pm Post subject:

Welcome back
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vickyg2003 · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 5:29 am Post subject:

The tools have come a long way, while you were gone.

IR 8.03 and KM 9.22 have had some major improvements. But the thing that will be of most interest to you is RemoteMaster RM. RemoteMaster now has the IR functions built in. That portion of the program is RMIR. RMIR is java based, and works on non-Windows machines. RMIR 2.02 was just moved from beta yesterday. It still has some rough edges, but the developers are actively working on making RMIR the new goto program.

We've also added a Wiki since you've been gone. See the link at the top of the page. This will be helpful for you starting out with RMIR.

Also, for a comprehensive review, you might want to look at IRHelp, Its the document that I put together when I was coming back after a three year absence. It might help sweep out the cobwebs.

Welcome back

sweh · Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Posts: 36

Thanks!

I played a little with rmir yesterday, and it refused to load my old .IR file (8811 with John Fine's extender 1) saying that the signature failed to match any RDF. I'd made some subtle changes to the RDF so that Phantom1 was renamed as SwitchRcvr and I added three new phantom keys (DiscreteOn, DiscreteOff, SwitchRcvr) so that it was easier to build readable macros (eg SLEEP becomes "X_TV;DiscreteOff;X_DVD;DiscreteOff;X_AUX;DiscreteOff;....")

vickyg2003 · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 8:44 am Post subject:

sweh · Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Posts: 36

If I select "new" then I get, as an option '6012 2K x1 (6_80_2x1)' so it's finding the RDF file.

However if I select "open" then I get "No remote found with signature starting 6_80 and EEPROM size 2K".

My guess (at this point) is that the old RDF file used is missing something subtle that RM needs, and the RM RDF 1.32 zip file doesn't contain an "extender 1" config (I see extender 2 and extender 3, but not extender 1).
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vickyg2003 · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:15 am Post subject:

First lets rule out a LINUX issue

here is a valid 8811 extender 3 2k IR file.
http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload.php?action=file&file_id=11540

Will this open in RMIR on your machine?

I would strongly recommend the extender 3 version. It has a lot of cool features that were missing in the early version.

sweh · Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Posts: 36

I get the option of 3 RDFs that match that signature (URC-881x x3 2K / URC-801x x3 2K / URC-601x x3 2K). I select the 881x version and see your file fine.

I really don't want to rebuild my config from scratch if I can avoid it Smile

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sweh · Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Posts: 36

FWIW, if it helps, my files are at http://sweh.spuddy.org/tmp/JP1/
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vickyg2003 · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:41 am Post subject:

sweh · Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Posts: 36

vickyg2003 · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 7:12 pm Post subject:

Yep, our posts were made at the same time. I didn't see yours until I came back.

I opened your file in IR and right away found the source of the bad signature. Your signature has a capital X and the signature on the RDF has a lower case X. There were 2 IR files in your folder. I only had access to the one that says blank_8011, the other one was FORBIDDEN. I tried to open the blank_8811. After I changed the signature on the RDF and added the sections about protocols to keep it from squawking, it still wouldn't open. It appears there are some sections in there that should not be.

Here is the RDF and the blank_8811 with the junk removed.
http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload.php?action=file&file_id=11542

After the line that starts with 07F0: you can't have those oddball sections that were in the blank_8811 IR file.
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sweh · Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Posts: 36

vickyg2003 · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 8:28 pm Post subject:

that's out of league. I'm not sure who to contact. I'll try greg and barf, they would know what all that means.

sweh · Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Posts: 36