JP1 Remotes

Thanks for the praise for the template page... would also appreciate additional JP1 newbie feedback for the draft newbie help page at;

http://bevhoward.com/stuff/Newbie.htm

which was put together from the viewpoint of a very lost jp1 beginner.

Well, so far it looks very good. I'll print it ...

OK, folks. I think I get what you are saying.

One last question...why would I want to change a protocol? Is that purely for controlling a device that needs a special protocol, or is there some other benefit to changing a protocol?

Wow, BEVHOWARD, you spent a LOT of time on that. Very nice. We'll see if I get to that point. My wife already thinks I'm nuts...

I have another question.

As I said, I downloaded my remote to IR. Now, if I want to manipulate it in either KM.xls or Remote Master, which file do I take OUT of IR and ...

Just to wrap this up...I soldered in the missing jumper and all is well. Now, on to learning about how to program this thing with JP1!

OK, now I have my cable working. I can download my programming to my PC now, this is good! I've read the document, JP1 for beginners, but maybe I missed something!

I have a URC 8910. While waiting for my cable to arrive, I programmed a lot of it manually, and it works pretty much like I like it ...

Compaq (HP) Evo N610c is the laptop, running Win XP Pro SP2

Well, darned if putting the jumper in didn't fix it! I added the jumper (pin 25-18 ), and everything works! I was able to download from remote to IR.exe. Perhaps my laptop needs this connection in order to communicate with JP1?

I have a temporary jumper in there now, looks like I'll break out the ...

Well, I perhaps have found the problem (with everyone's help, of course!) Looking at the instructions posted to construct the cable that I purchased, (Link: http://www.diygadget.com/jp1/simple_kit.php) it appears there is a connection missing in my cable.

Step 6 specifies to put a jumper between ...

I'm going to investigate that. When you refer to

pin 3 and 5 of the JP1 connector,

it sounds like you are referring to the six pin connector end of the JP1 cable, the one that connects to the remote.

I did not build this cable, I ordered it from diygadget. I CAN build a cable, but I figured I ...

If you have plugged in the JP1 cable to the remote without connection to the parallel port of your laptop and you see "all LED's illuminated" too, I think there is something wrong with the cable, othwise it could be a parallel port issue.

OK, I unplugged the cable from computer and remote. I got ...

OK, I changed the parallel port from ECP to "bidirectional" in the BIOS (I have two other choices: Standard and EPP).

Now it appears that communication on some level is taking place, but I get this message now:

"The interface appears to have failed midway into the operation. If you are using the ...

I tried uploading/downloading remote, and it does not communicate.

I can get "all LED's Illuminated" to clear by disconnecting JP1 cable and pressing any remote button. I was just wondering if seeing all LED's illuminated was a sign that things were not working...apparently not!

I will try ...

Hi,

Total newbie here. I have a URC-8910 B02 remote, and I just got a Parallel JP1 cable from diygadget.com. I'm using IR.exe version 6.15 and I run Win XP Pro, SP2 with all latest updates.

I've followed the directions on the diygadget page on how to get IR.exe to talk to the remote, but no dice ...