RCA Scenium DRS7000N PVR/DVD

mediacritic2 · Post by **mediacritic2** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:46 pm

I have a 7800 remote and am looking for an upgrade file for this unit. It is a dvd/pvr combo. Discrete codes are also appreciated.

David

jon_armstrong · Post by **jon_armstrong** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:32 am

Read the #1 Asked question and post the missing information.

mediacritic2 · Post by **mediacritic2** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:18 pm

Hi Jon,

Thanks for your reply. I have used the JP1 cable for a few years. The problem I am having with the original remote is that the 7800 doesn't seem able to learn the commands. I've done it before with other remotes and it has worked fine. The original remote is one of those long RCA ones that comes with the Direct TV receivers except this one has a few extra buttons and is silver instead of black. It's not RF, but still when I try to learn a command the 7800 is acting like it isn't receiving anything.

BTW the 7800 I am using is new with lots of memory left. What could be the problem.

I will be happy to post an upgrade file once I create one.

David

jon_armstrong · Post by **jon_armstrong** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:40 pm

David,

Let's try a few things first. Save your existing configuration in IR and then do a 981 reset. The EEPROM may be somehow corrupted and thinks the learning memory is full.

After that, try learning again. Make sure that you wait until the led is rapidly flashing before pressing the key on the OEM remote.

If that still fails to work, get the LED rapidly blinking and then do a sharp tap on the RCA's remote key rather than hold down.

Make sure you replace batteries in both the OEM and 7800 remotes. That is still probably the number one cause of learning problems.

I've looked at Remote Central for a ccf file and in a big cml library and couldn't find any commands for that device.

So unless you can learn it, I can't find any other information to get you started. You might post in the OFA RC forum. Edmund always seems to know the obscure setup codes for the RCA line.

Post by **The Robman** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 5:28 pm

jon_armstrong wrote:You might post in the OFA RC forum. Edmund always seems to know the obscure setup codes for the RCA line.

Edmund also checks these forums and sometimes sends in a masked man to answer questions for him!

mediacritic2 · Post by **mediacritic2** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 8:46 am

Replaced batteries in both OEM and 7800 no diff. Did a 981 on the 7800 no diff. Then I decided to use another 7800 that is currently my main remote. It learned the codes no problem. I bought both remotes on the same day, used one, stored the other. The stored one must be defective.

Thanks for your help.

Now I can learn all the codes and create my own upgrade file.
Will post when done.
Thanks for the tip about the OFA forum.

jon_armstrong · Post by **jon_armstrong** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 9:03 am

You might try your original configuration file (before learning) from the good 7800 into the one that can't learn. If that works, then save the one with learning for your "test bed"/backup. Fortunately with JP1, learning isn't very important other than to figure out a device upgrade.

BTW, if the learned commands use the RCA protocol, then we may have some good guesses at the discrete power and input commands.

You might also post the 7800 learning problem in the hardware section. IIRC, one of the 7800's LED's is a combination IR transmitter/receiver and perhaps someone knows of a replacement source if that turns out to be the problem.

mediacritic2 · Post by **mediacritic2** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 11:17 am

I was able to learn all of the commands. According to IR, the DRS7000 uses RCA Protocol and device 10 for most of its commands. However 10 of the commands learned show two devices 5 and 10 and two EFCs. I tried learning a few times to make sure it wasn't a mistake, but got the same result. How do I plug in two devices and two EFCs for a command in KM. Thanks in advance.

David

johnsfine · Post by **johnsfine** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 11:22 am

Is the DecodeIR.dll file somewhere that IR.EXE can find it? (In the Help/About screen IR.EXE should tell you which version of DecodeIR it found).

Also check under the advanced menu to make sure you haven't disabled DecodeIR.dll

MAYBE the signals really are what you describe. But I doubt it. I think it's a decoding error and I think that decoding error is one the old decoder built into IR.EXE might make and the new decoder in DecodeIR.dll wouldn't.

Even if I'm wrong, it wouldn't be a good idea for us to give you advice now on how to mix device numbers. You should post a file containing those learned signals to the Yahoo JP1 diagnosis folder. After opening that file in IR.EXE ourselves, any of the IR protocol experts here could tell you the correct decode if the decode you described is wrong, or could tell you the appropriate way to create the mix if a mix is what you actually need.

jon_armstrong · Post by **jon_armstrong** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 12:27 pm

David,

IIRC you said you had used JP1 for some time. You need to download the most recent version of IR and the RDF files and install.

The symptoms you describe remind me of the older version of IR. If you post your file, even from an old version of IR, John or I can take a look at it while you are figuring our how to install the latest software.

mediacritic2 · Post by **mediacritic2** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 3:26 pm

Thanks to Jon, John and Rob for your feedback.

You were right on with the old version of IR. I was using 3.12. Upgraded to 4.02 and the codes were interpreted fine.

Turned out the Protocol Name was RCA and the Device Code was 5.
I then plugged in all the EFCs in KM 8.25 and copied them over to IR to create an upgrade file.

I am happy to share this file with the group. I have the file in .txt format as requested. Can you tell me who to upload it to. Thanks again.

David

jon_armstrong · Post by **jon_armstrong** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 3:48 pm

Upload it to the PVR section of files|device codes at the old JP1 Yahoo group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jp1/files ... Codes/PVR/

Post by **The Robman** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 4:42 pm

mediacritic2 wrote:You were right on with the old version of IR. I was using 3.12. Upgraded to 4.02 and the codes were interpreted fine.

That's out of date too, the current version of IR is 5.09

mediacritic2 · Post by **mediacritic2** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 6:54 pm

Got 5.09, dumped version 4.02. Is there a reason that 3 different IR versions are still on the files section?

Uploaded the RCA Scenium DRS7000N file to the PVR section.

Thanks again, David.

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