On 02/01/03 23:46, ryan schnacke said...
This past week I bought the 2116, soldered together
a JP1 interface and upgraded/programmed my remote
using KM and IR.
. . .
The memory is limited
so its important to use it efficiently. I would
give up some of the learning memory in exchange
for extra key-move/macro memory.
That is one of the things most extenders do. Unfortunately, no one has written an extender for the 2116. The best extender is available for the 8811.
Instead I chose
to learn a few commands I could have key-moved.
If that gives you enough room, great. I expect you understand that it gives just a small fraction as many functions as you would get with an extender using that memory for key moves.
Macros that use 8 - 10 steps take about 4 - 5
seconds to execute so you must continue to point
the remote at the components for a while. But
I don't know if it would be any faster on other
remotes since this is the first time I've tried
macros.
It is much faster with an extender. Otherwise, it doesn't vary much from one model to another.
And on the positive side, I haven't found
a need to insert delays (or pseudo-delays as the
case may be) in my macros.
With the extender, it would be more likely that a few delays and/or duration increases would be required. Typical macros are still much faster using the fast macro extender and adding back the required delays than they would be at the default macro speed.
In all, this is an amazing value for $30.
I assume that means you found cheap parts for building your JP1 cable. A 2116 plus JP1 kit is a little more than that and with a pre built JP1 cable more again, but I think it's an amazing value even if it costs $50.
