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MX800 MRF200 VIP1225
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Post 1 made on Friday September 3, 2010 at 15:45
marvinb
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I have an MX800 - MRF200 combination. They have been working fine for years.

Recently I subscribed to AT&T U-verse and my cable box changed to a VIP1225.

I reprogrammed my MX800 to control the VIP1225, and the IR output from the MX800 works fine, but RF control through the MRF200 does not work.

I found the IR sensor on the VIP 1225 to the right of the record LED.

I spent a lot of time trying to find a "sweet spot" onor near the sensor, but it just does not work. It seemed to work a few time but in no way reliably.

I searched the forum but did not find anything for this configuration. I did find similar problems and tried part of the suggestions where practical.

Has anyone worked out a solution to this?
Post 2 made on Wednesday January 11, 2012 at 13:53
netarc
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wondering if you ever got this resolved? I have a project coming up to consolidate remotes for a client, one of whose devices is the VIP1225 ... would be good to know if there are RF2IR problems b4hand!
Post 3 made on Wednesday January 11, 2012 at 14:23
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On September 3, 2010 at 15:45, marvinb said...
I have an MX800 - MRF200 combination. They have been working fine for years.

Recently I subscribed to AT&T U-verse and my cable box changed to a VIP1225.

I reprogrammed my MX800 to control the VIP1225, and the IR output from the MX800 works fine, but RF control through the MRF200 does not work.

I found the IR sensor on the VIP 1225 to the right of the record LED.

I spent a lot of time trying to find a "sweet spot" onor near the sensor, but it just does not work. It seemed to work a few time but in no way reliably.

I searched the forum but did not find anything for this configuration. I did find similar problems and tried part of the suggestions where practical.

Has anyone worked out a solution to this?

I have used the Xantech Naked Emitters for these issues before with success.
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Post 4 made on Wednesday January 11, 2012 at 17:41
punter16
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Switch to a RF brain with variable output and tweak it down. It should work just fine. You may want to also see if the codes you are using were learned originally for an ATT box. If so, use the codes in the database (we had this happen where our learned codes from an ATT box 2 years ago worked intermittently with a new box...tried the codes in the database and they worked flawlessly).
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Post 5 made on Wednesday January 25, 2012 at 18:35
netarc
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I see that the Motorola VIP1225 doesn't appear in the MX900 urc DB, at least not in the standalone editor version (updated as of today). Closest options are the VIP1200, VIP1216 (code 152) - has anyone used either of these successfully with the 1225?

Now that I look closer I see that all the Moto VIP boxes show up as codeset 152 in the editor, so should be a safe bet this codeset will work w/the 1225.

Too, under the AT&T Brand there appears to be a generic UVERSE (code 151)


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