Be sure to reread my post 11 which I edited, probably while you were typing post 12.
On 04/28/05 15:54 ET, broken said...
This is the thread I got a bunch of info from
that seemed to indicate that some repetition was
getting confused, I believe you're on this one
as well as a number of other folks,
I thought that might be where you misunderstood the "repetition" issue.
Repetition is a normal part of most IR signals. The Dreambox sends these signals with correct repetition. The NG Prontos have a design flaw in the part of their firmware responsible for learning the repetition pattern. In these signals (and some others) they get confused and learn that wrong. Since the flaw is in the learning process itself (nothing wrong with the original signal they were trying to learn) there is nothing you could do with the original remote (even with extreme JP1 programming) to make them learn this signal correctly. You can only get the correct signal into them via direct PC programming.
There is no reason to believe the MX-500's problem in learning these signals is similar to the NG-Pronto's problem. There are several harder aspects to the signals. The NG Pronto's are particulary stupid about repeat pattern.
