Mediasonic HOMEWORX HW180STB Digital Converter Box

clei · Post by **clei** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 12:18 pm

Does anyone know of any code for this device that can be used with an RCRP05BR?

Thanks for any help.

Post by **vickyg2003** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 12:44 pm

Do you have a cable? Or do you need to do this with EFC's. We have two homework 180 upgrades in the file section.

Post by **The Robman** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 1:07 pm

http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=49

clei · Post by **clei** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 7:11 am

vickyg2003 wrote:Do you have a cable? Or do you need to do this with EFC's. We have two homework 180 upgrades in the file section.

I'll need to do it with EFC's. I have the new model HOMEWORX HW180STB which can record shows.

Thanks

mdavej · Post by **mdavej** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 7:52 am

clei wrote:
vickyg2003 wrote:Do you have a cable? Or do you need to do this with EFC's. We have two homework 180 upgrades in the file section.
I'll need to do it with EFC's. I have the new model HOMEWORX HW180STB which can record shows.

Thanks

Why did you completely ignore Rob's post?

In any case, it is impossible to do with EFCs if you have a pre-2015 box, otherwise it's easy. With an older box, you need a cable, a different remote, or simply learn from the original.

Is yours 2015 or newer?

clei · Post by **clei** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 10:38 am

mdavej wrote:
clei wrote:
vickyg2003 wrote:Do you have a cable? Or do you need to do this with EFC's. We have two homework 180 upgrades in the file section.
I'll need to do it with EFC's. I have the new model HOMEWORX HW180STB which can record shows.

Thanks
Why did you completely ignore Rob's post?

In any case, it is impossible to do with EFCs if you have a pre-2015 box, otherwise it's easy. With an older box, you need a cable, a different remote, or simply learn from the original.

Is yours 2015 or newer?

Completely ignore Rob's post? Sorry, but I didn't think it really applied since I mentioned I was trying to use a RCA RCRP05BR with a HOMEWORX HW180STB, both of which seem to be known devices here. I got the distinct impression that Rob's post was refering to what to do if one was dealing with one or more *UNKNOWN* devices.

Sorry if I got the wrong impression.

Anyway my HOMEWORX HW180STB is 2015 or newer, shipping with the 10.1 firmware.

Post by **The Robman** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 10:51 am

When people ask for codes or upgrades, we usually end up playing a game of 20 questions before we finally extract the information necessary for us to help the person, so after having done this for many years (since 2000) we came up with a list of 12 standard questions that we want people to answer. I thought the post was fairly clear on that, but as you missed the point of it, maybe you can suggest ways that we could make it more clear.

mdavej · Post by **mdavej** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 11:29 am

To expound a little on what Rob said, all of these questions guide us to the correct solution, which could involve learning, a JP1 cable, etc., depending on your answers. The answer to your original question is "yes" right off the bat. But to determine if any such codes are usable to you depends entirely on the answers you would have provided on the form. No shortcuts.

We have no problem helping people who try to help themselves. But we're not keen on having very little information to start and having to do all the leg work.

So now, install Remote Master, open the 2015 Homeworx upgrade from our file section, and you'll have all the EFCs. Use them with CBL setup code 00303 among many others.

If you have trouble with that, we can post the EFCs.

clei · Post by **clei** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 5:21 pm

The Robman wrote:When people ask for codes or upgrades, we usually end up playing a game of 20 questions before we finally extract the information necessary for us to help the person, so after having done this for many years (since 2000) we came up with a list of 12 standard questions that we want people to answer. I thought the post was fairly clear on that, but as you missed the point of it, maybe you can suggest ways that we could make it more clear.

The only thing I can think of is to make it clear on the page in question that this step is required for all devices, no matter if the device(s) in question has been already identified as known working device(s) prior to this step.

Post by **The Robman** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 6:03 pm

clei wrote:The only thing I can think of is to make it clear on the page in question that this step is required for all devices, no matter if the device(s) in question has been already identified as known working device(s) prior to this step.

So then I am confused, below is your original request. This looks like every other code request that we used to receive before implementing the template rule. Where do you say that you already have a working device upgrade, and if you already have one, what are you looking for here?

clei wrote:Does anyone know of any code for this device that can be used with an RCRP05BR?

Thanks for any help.

Post by **vickyg2003** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 7:23 am

Clei, you gave us 2 of the answers we needed in your original post. We had to ask for two more answers that were included in the template. The model year and did you have a cable. We could have answered this with one response had you used the template.

The template gives us an easy to read check list. It is helpful to get the information in that template form because it is complete and easy to read. Sometimes we get verbose answers that make it really hard to read. Other times we dont get enough information and have to ask more and more questions.

I could have sworn this was originally posted in the jp1-beginners forum. Had I realized we were in the code search forum, my response should have been use the template. Oh well

Post by **The Robman** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 7:59 am

vickyg2003 wrote:I could have sworn this was originally posted in the jp1-beginners forum. Had I realized we were in the code search forum, my response should have been use the template. Oh well

It was, I moved it.

clei · Post by **clei** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 9:46 am

The Robman wrote:
clei wrote:The only thing I can think of is to make it clear on the page in question that this step is required for all devices, no matter if the device(s) in question has been already identified as known working device(s) prior to this step.
So then I am confused, below is your original request. This looks like every other code request that we used to receive before implementing the template rule. Where do you say that you already have a working device upgrade, and if you already have one, what are you looking for here?

clei wrote:Does anyone know of any code for this device that can be used with an RCRP05BR?

Thanks for any help.

Ok. Doing a google search using RCRP05BR,HOMEWORX HW180STB, in various combinations as keywords will pretty much get you nothing in regards as to if the RCRP05BR is in fact compatible with the codes used by the HW180STB remote outside of the statement the logictech harmony remote is compatible with it,blah,blah,blah.

Not really surprising, but I figured that I would ask around the the various sites if anyone actually knew if in fact people where actually using the RCRP05BR with the HW180STB since both have been around for a number years even though nothing was showing up in the Google searches I was doing to indicate this, not even on the various HW180STB forums where again the only thing that was mentioned was the logictech harmony.

So I posted the question here and saw Vicky's response and quite frankly thought that okay, there was no need to do a redundant posting of information you guys already had on the devices.

I think Vicky is right, the problem came when the post was moved because I think she understood the question I was asking in the original post when she responded to it.

Post by **The Robman** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 10:23 am

You posted a code search request in the wrong forum, so I moved it for you (leaving a forwarding link in the old forum) and I posted a link to the template hoping that you would take the hint and use it. I think the template post is quite clear, but you chose to ignore it again.

If you're not the kind of person who's willing to follow the guidelines of this forum, maybe this isn't the right place for you.

clei · Post by **clei** » Sat Apr 23, 2016 4:06 pm

The Robman wrote:You posted a code search request in the wrong forum, so I moved it for you (leaving a forwarding link in the old forum) and I posted a link to the template hoping that you would take the hint and use it. I think the template post is quite clear, but you chose to ignore it again.

If you're not the kind of person who's willing to follow the guidelines of this forum, maybe this isn't the right place for you.

It didn't become a code search request until you moved the post without understanding what was being asked.

All I asked was if anyone knew if the two devices were compatible with each other, which is basically a yes,no or I don't know answer.

Not the same thing as a code search request.