re: my macros all disappear under IR merge

[greenough1]

I am trying to take small steps to getting the extender installed. Here's the current list of problems.
1) extinstall can't read the file produced by ir 6.00, so I used the merge feature. this produced a file.
2) All of my macros are gone. they were setup as shift+device key's.
3) my keymoves for the unextended setup are gone too.

I used 6012ex1K3_2 as the extender distribution as this seemed the most recent.

The only special protocol I had installed was pause.

My remote is an 8811, bought a couple weeks ago from src.com

Is it expected that all my macros should disappear and I need to recreate them. Any other ideas?

Thanks,
jeff

[Mark Pierson]

Is it expected that all my macros should disappear and I need to recreate them.

If you opened IR, and then immediately did the merge and selected your existing IR file in the 2nd step of the merge, then yes, you would lose your macros.

The way merge works is first you open an exisiting unextended IR file. Then you select Merge Using ExtInstall. In the 1st step, you select the appropriate extender .hex file. In the 2nd step you enter a new name to save the file as.

[Nils_Ekberg]

You used the extender for a 1K remote and yours is 2K. That is why you lost everything. The one you should use is further down called 6012ex3_2.zip

As Mark said, open IR, open the original file, select Merge with Extinstall, pick the hex file for the extender that you got out of the zip file, then name the output when it asks you to.

[greenough1]

In the 6012ex3_2.zip, there's no hex file.

I looked deeper and found 6012-2K-3.hex. is that the right one?

Forged ahead and got a first version running. Thanks guys.

jeff

[Nils_Ekberg]

There are 2 hex files in the zip. The 2k one is the correct one for you

[Mark Pierson]

I looked deeper...

Hey Nils, I meant to tell you that your extender file has some deep file directory structure in the zip. If users are unzipping it using the folder names, it does take a bit to find what you're looking for... I know because I had the same problem.

[Nils_Ekberg]

Thanks Mark. I didn't notice since I only looked at it at in the ZIP file. I just fixed it.