JP1 Remotes

Jaco_J · Joined: 06 Oct 2014 Posts: 5

Hi Graham,

thanks for the quick response, I will wait.

Regards

lnoland1 · Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 38 Location: Chicago suburbs

I have been slowly adding upgrades to my ARRX15G remote but in the middle of one of them, things got weird. I was trying to change the device list in rmir (e.g. change the order of the devices, delete devices in the list, etc.) and all sorts of strange things started happening -- I wound up with multiple copies of the same device; changes I made to devices weren't being uploaded to the remote; etc. Since I had saved most of my upgrades as rmdu files I decided to reset the remote and build a new rmir file. Now, however, whenever I try to create a new remote image in rmir, i get the message "RMIR cannnot create a new remote image for this remote." If I try downloading from the remote I get a message which begins "Error downloading from the remote." In short, I'm back to square one with seemingly no place to go.

Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong or what I should do next?

I am using RemoteMaster v2.03 Alpha 24e. The map/rdf files came from the file area: RDFs and Maps for JP1.4 and later (rev6)

Thanks for any help you can offer.

- Les

3FG · Expert Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 3367

RMIR is up to version 24g. Please download Alpha 24g and use it. You may be encountering an already solved situation.

lnoland1 · Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 38 Location: Chicago suburbs

mathdon · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 5:08 pm Post subject:

Les, you really cannot build a new remote image for the ARRX15G in RMIR. For the XSight remotes, you MUST use the remote itself to add new devices. You can then download your setup into RMIR and manipulate it, but you must start from the remote itself.

Indeed, there are very few remotes for which it is safe to build a new remote image in RMIR (or, for that matter, in the earlier IR.exe). Most remotes allow you to do so, but it may not work satisfactorily as there are usually some internal settings that RMIR cannot reproduce. The XSights are sufficiently complicated that it is actually not possible at all.

If you want to clear out your existing setup and start again, here's how to do it. Open the Home screen, scroll down to Settings and select it. In the Settings menu, scroll down to Reset and select it. It will give you a screen that says at the top "Press below to reset", still with a button labelled Reset. Do NOT press that. Instead, enter "981" from the keypad. The button will change to "Factory Reset". That's the one to press. You will then be back to a clean remote as supplied new from the factory.
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Graham

xnappo · Expert Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 861

Hi Graham,

For both my setups I downloaded a blank remote image to start with (no devices set up), and the proceeded to add JP1 upgrades. This worked fine - so I think the main point here is that you need to download from the remote and then start adding stuff?

xnappo

mdavej · Expert Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 4501

Graham,

Sometimes when I edit devices from the General tab, some pointer gets off and I get invalid setup codes warning on some of the remaining devices I didn't edit, as if those devices no longer exist. I can't tell you exactly how to reproduce it. But I think I can suggest a simple fix. Just remote the Edit Device button from the general tab altogether. I don't think I've ever experienced the problem when editing from the Devices tab.

lnoland1 · Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 38 Location: Chicago suburbs

mathdon · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 12:30 pm Post subject:

xnappo · Expert Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 861

Jaco_J · Joined: 06 Oct 2014 Posts: 5

Hi, Graham.

In a meantime, I made a "factory reset" (981), and tried to use RMIR but I still got an "Error downloading from the remote."
(Xsight Colour)

Sorry for my English.

Jaco_J

tranx · Joined: 13 May 2012 Posts: 682 Location: Hants, UK

Jaco_J · Joined: 06 Oct 2014 Posts: 5

Hi tranx,

yes, I did it before writing my first post. Without files named "USB8002..." RMIR doesn't see my remote.

Jacek

tranx · Joined: 13 May 2012 Posts: 682 Location: Hants, UK

tranx · Joined: 13 May 2012 Posts: 682 Location: Hants, UK

Started to play with Xsight Colour and found a couple of things which I do not understand.

After adding devices in EZ-RC, the remote was downloaded into RMIR v2.03 24g

http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload.php?action=file&file_id=12822

1.) In devices> layout, there is a 'page 0', at first found by clicking '-' (which may even appear to have commands allocated to soft buttons there) until other steps are taken, when Page 0 is no longer accessible.

2.) With the Xsight Colour downloaded into RMIR I thought it would look for URC-8603 (Xsight Touch) RDF and Map, but the images shown on the device layout pages look like ARRX-18G (USB8005), even if there are no maps or RDFs for ARRX15G / USB8005 in the target folder, and while a pair of files called URC-8603 is present in the same target list.