Confirm my plans please

IDvsEGO · Post by **IDvsEGO** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:06 am

I am getting ready to got he JP1 route, but want to be sure that my plan should work. I will be controlling an Onkyo reciever, Infocus x1 projector, and a Home Theatre PC. I am planning on buying the OFA 8910 learning remote.

I plan on buying a IR keyboard/mouse for the PC. I will get the codes for the reciever, then use the learing function to learn keypresses for the PC and learn the 3 function I need from the projector remote. The PC will recieve the remote signals throug the PC's reciever for the IR keyboard/mouse. Now, before I go dropping this cash and take up the time to confgure, is this scenerio feasible?

thanks in advance

Post by **The Robman** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:07 pm

absolutely

IDvsEGO · Post by **IDvsEGO** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:17 pm

good to hear. I am going to try to just learn the keypresses first, but will probably go with the JP1 cable and setup.

jon_armstrong · Post by **jon_armstrong** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:43 pm

Read the discussion stating at the bottom of this page and on to the next page about how to learn keys from Keyboards. Also most Keyboards aren't IR so make sure it's not RF.

IDvsEGO · Post by **IDvsEGO** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:31 pm

I am getting the same keyboard the Morph is using. I have read most of those threads. still sorting throught he search results for liteon. some great info there. I just wanted a quick confirmation before i made some purchases. Now if only the 8910 didn't have that ugly red backlight. green or blue would be so much more pleasing.

edit - I have the remote working witht he reciever and projector, piece of cake. just waiting on the keyboard to get here

IDvsEGO · Post by **IDvsEGO** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 6:46 am

learned keys fine, but ran out of memory, since all projector buttons had to be learned. if I download a file for it, does that free up some of the memory? I ordered a JP1 cable and am going ot try tweaking the airboard profile.

IDvsEGO · Post by **IDvsEGO** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:29 pm

quick update for anybody considering the IR Lite-On / Airboard keyboard. I used the airboard file and it worked so far. I used notepad to confirm the button outputs. now I just need to fire up the HTPC and zoomplayer to get it working. I was able to configure zomplayers default keys and flash the remote with about 2 hours of trial and error. should be way less tiem next time.

mathboy · Post by **mathboy** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:27 pm

learned keys fine, but ran out of memory, since all projector buttons had to be learned.

Try using RM and make an upgrade for your projector, this will use your upgrade memory which is much much more efficient.

Now if only the 8910 didn't have that ugly red backlight. green or blue would be so much more pleasing.

I think I saw some remotes The Robman was selling that had a green back light.

Post by **The Robman** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:56 pm

mathboy wrote:
Now if only the 8910 didn't have that ugly red backlight. green or blue would be so much more pleasing.
I think I saw some remotes The Robman was selling that had a green back light.

I have green 8811s but all my 8910s are red.

IDvsEGO · Post by **IDvsEGO** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 6:19 am

well, I might sell my 8910 once I get make an upgrade for the projector. the LCD on it is pretty much useless. I will either go 8811 or kameleon. now that I used the airboard upgrade, I have plenty of learing memroy left anyway.

spooky · Post by **spooky** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:16 pm

The 8811 is a very nice JP1 style remote. The button layout is very good especially if like me you like macros. The m and l buttons are arranged across the bottom in two rows. I use those for macros. The set button is recessed and therefore out of the way and at the bottom. The navigation buttons and transport buttons are nearer the middle. A great position for a Tivo user like myself. And the home theater mode button is a good one since you can assign groups of buttons to different devices. I just used it to set up a five device home theater for my father and he is using it after about 2 minutes of instruction. I labeled the macro buttons with a fine sharpie. One of them is the master on button. The Sleep button I use for master off. The default master on m1 sets it to home theater which is watcing DirecTivo. The m2 button switches it to VCR the m3 button switches to DVD and the m4 button switches to DTivo. I did use three of the learn buttons for some special commands his Sylvania combo VCR DVD player has.

Does anyone know which dvd players use NEC1 protocols. I learned a bunch of buttons for the DVD function. The VCR function just happened to be built in code 0000. It was a bit confusing trying to use the 991 code and then the 990 code. No flashes. But a quick download into IR and the mystery was solved. The backlighting on the 8811 works very well for my father who uses it in a lighted room to help differentiate the keys.

I can only compare the 8810 to the 15-1994 which is getting long in the tooth for built in codes and has much less flexibility than the 8811. And the RCU810 which I find tedious to use in manual mode with all the screen scrolling. And as much as I like the type of transport it is just to close to the bottom to be useful with DTivo. Great backlight on the RCA.

johnsfine · Post by **johnsfine** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 8:25 am

spooky wrote: Does anyone know which dvd players use NEC1 protocols.

If you counted by brand and model names (rather than number of units shipped), I think you'd find most dvd models use NEC1, much more than all other protocols combined. Several of the high volume brands have their own protocols. But almost all the low volume and/or rebranded (one manufacturer, dozens of brand and model names) models use NEC1.

Why do you care? What are you really trying to do?