8811w 2K with extender 3.3 - weird issues
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:43 am
http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload ... le_id=3098
Fairly winded story follows:
I first set up the extender with all discrete on/off devices. I noticed that often the volume and channel controls would go to a behavior of getting only one keypress even when you hold them down. This bothered me, but my dad was fine with it, so I let it slide. It would sometimes revert to sending the duration of how long you held the button down. Just a quirk I thought. Fast forward to getting a new TV and cable box. Both of these were toads, and I used ridiculously long macros to guarantee they were either turned on or off, and in the right order. (HDCP Protection makes me turn on the cable, then wait a bit, then turn on the TV unless I want a big blue box warning me of copyright protections being tampered with). The BIG problem: When the aforementioned problem occurred, pauses no longer worked properly in my macros, causing the tv and sometimes cable box to not go on or off properly. I thought maybe my macros just needed to be cleaned up and streamlined a bit, and after some tweaking, it got in a state where instead of the above problems, I would see two flashes, and the extender was unloaded!! I had to press tv, power to load it back. I noticed this happened whenever I switched to DVD and back to CBL. I tweaked my macros a bit more, and the backlight turned on and the remote was unresponsive. Screwed up macros I thought, but I tried putting my DVD macro on the VCR button, and it WORKS, except now I just get the problem of volume and channel buttons not going for the duration of the keypress after hitting VCR. I am sending some IR files, because I think it's a bug in the extender (Moving the macro from DVD to VCR should have had no effect on the behavior AFAIK)
Fairly winded story follows:
I first set up the extender with all discrete on/off devices. I noticed that often the volume and channel controls would go to a behavior of getting only one keypress even when you hold them down. This bothered me, but my dad was fine with it, so I let it slide. It would sometimes revert to sending the duration of how long you held the button down. Just a quirk I thought. Fast forward to getting a new TV and cable box. Both of these were toads, and I used ridiculously long macros to guarantee they were either turned on or off, and in the right order. (HDCP Protection makes me turn on the cable, then wait a bit, then turn on the TV unless I want a big blue box warning me of copyright protections being tampered with). The BIG problem: When the aforementioned problem occurred, pauses no longer worked properly in my macros, causing the tv and sometimes cable box to not go on or off properly. I thought maybe my macros just needed to be cleaned up and streamlined a bit, and after some tweaking, it got in a state where instead of the above problems, I would see two flashes, and the extender was unloaded!! I had to press tv, power to load it back. I noticed this happened whenever I switched to DVD and back to CBL. I tweaked my macros a bit more, and the backlight turned on and the remote was unresponsive. Screwed up macros I thought, but I tried putting my DVD macro on the VCR button, and it WORKS, except now I just get the problem of volume and channel buttons not going for the duration of the keypress after hitting VCR. I am sending some IR files, because I think it's a bug in the extender (Moving the macro from DVD to VCR should have had no effect on the behavior AFAIK)