JP1 Remotes

It's good to know that there's a way to recover when these things happen.

Now that we know that damage can be undone, I wonder if it would be worthwhile to see if the problem is repeatable. Here's what I did, step-by-step.

1. Starting with a brand-new remote (which I have verified to be equivalent ...

PM sent, and location fixed.

I got a new OARP05S going last night (only $12, so I bought some extras, too). I made a new IR file from scratch and it worked fine. I elected not to apply the LED extender this time around.

Yes, I have tried that and many other things. For the bricked one, no LED response--IR or visible. For the other one, nothing gets it out of CBL mode.

Personally, I'm not so sure the LED extender is actually the cause. My understanding is that it simply writes to the operating system portion of the ...

Today I had to swap out an ATSC tuner in my living room, so I had to change my remote setup. No problem, right? Nope. I made the changes and uploaded to the remote, and it's bricked. No LEDs, no response to 981, no communication with IR or jp1xtest. The remote did have the Phantom LED Activation ...

It is somewhat disappointing, since it means you can't press-and-hold a number key.

The other disappointment is that there isn't a second (actual) phantom key. For TVs, it would be really useful for the dash function, since some units require it to be punched in for ATSC channel numbers.

I do ...

The number buttons (1=$02,2=$03,3=$04,4=$05,5=$06,6=$07,7=$08,8=$09,9=$0A,0=$0B) are phantoms. You assign codes to them with an upgrade, but there is no physical key that causes the remote to send the code.

The numbered keys on the remote are macro keys. They are assigned with regular macro ...

I did some more experimentation. A helpful behavior of the Cricket is that it appends TV_ENTER to any macro that contains invalid button codes, even if both volume and channel devices are set to CBL. Lo and behold, the only valid button codes that aren't in ButtonMaps are $77, $78, and $2E/setup (I ...

The Cricket does not have device buttons or device modes. Including a device keypress in a macro does nothing. I'm curious how the original RDF author even identified hex identifiers for device buttons.

Let me know if I'm neglecting some reason to include those buttons. No one will be using the ...

I know I'm talking to myself here, but I brought the Cricket remote home for more testing this weekend. After a lot of experimentation, I realized that a lot of changes to the RDF were necessary. I uploaded a new one to the file section, along with a tweaked map file

1. The [Settings] section was ...

Thanks for the welcome.

It's finals week right now, so the classroom is unused and I was able to go back in an experiment a little more with the Cricket. I tried keymoves--both keypress and EFC types--and they do not work on the numbered keys or the ON/OFF key.

I forgot to mention before that I ...

I just got an OARK02R Cricket remote to use for controlling two projectors in a university classroom setting. I've been programming JP1 remotes for a few years and expected such a simple remote to be easy, but it wasn't. JP1 documentation for this unit seems to be lacking, so I thought I'd join the ...