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Motorola DVR 6412 -on/off discrete codes.

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:47 pm
by Jun
Hi all,

Does anybody here know where I can get the discrete codes for Motorola DVR 6412? In particular I am looking for the ON/OFF discrete codes.

Thank you.

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:13 pm
by The Robman
Do you know that they exist? As far as I know, none of the Motorola STBs support discrete power codes.

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:27 pm
by Jun
Thanks Rob for letting me know that there are no discrete codes for 6412, I'll just leave my 6412 always on.

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 5:50 pm
by MPSAN
In fact, I always leave mine on as I have seen a few issues if they are off. Otherwise, I would be asking the same thing.

Jun wrote:Thanks Rob for letting me know that there are no discrete codes for 6412, I'll just leave my 6412 always on.

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:52 pm
by mobidutch
I think you can simulate discrete ON/OFF with macros:

ON: MENU-POWER-POWER
OFF: MENU-POWER

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:45 am
by andyross
awesterink wrote:I think you can simulate discrete ON/OFF with macros:

ON: MENU-POWER-POWER
OFF: MENU-POWER
Thanks for the emulation information. I added it to the Wikibook for the Motorola DVR.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_to_use_a_Motorola_DVR

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:37 pm
by The Robman
awesterink wrote:I think you can simulate discrete ON/OFF with macros:

ON: MENU-POWER-POWER
OFF: MENU-POWER
The implication being that the MENU button acts as a discrete on command, is that correct?

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:03 am
by andyross
Basically, hitting menu when OFF displays a setup screen. Hitting POWER once will then turn it off. Hitting Power twice turns it off and back on (a drawback is that on a 34xx/64xx series, you will revert to tuner 1, so your channel could change.) If it's ON, MENU shows the mini-menu (if using iGuide), with the power sequence working similar to above.

Basically, the key to hitting MENU is that when it's off, hitting MENU sort-of turns it on to display the setup screen, so that the POWER key now works the same as if it's already on.