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MX-450 Cable Box Power Control
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| Topic: | MX-450 Cable Box Power Control This thread has 5 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Thursday December 15, 2011 at 10:45 |
PCassidy Lurking Member |
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The cable box is a Comcast/Motorola DCH3200 and I'm using code set 0110. Power control for this box is a toggle on the Comcast remote rather than a discrete Power On and Power Off. The 0110 code set has internal device Power On and Power Off keys but they don't control this device. Only the hard Power keys do and they both toggle the power on and off.
The challenge is how to have the cable box power on when you need it? I've set up the MX-450 so the cable box is always on. It's not part of the All Power Off macro or the power on macros. Unfortunately, if the user selects the hard power off key without first selecting Main, the cable box powers down and the next time the system is powered up to Watch TV there is no video because the cable box is off.
Rather than try to teach the user how to power up the cable box directly, I would prefer to eliminate the problem altogether. If the cable box had discrete power on and power off keys it would be simple.
Any suggestions appreciated.
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| Post 2 made on Thursday December 15, 2011 at 11:17 |
JoeFlabitz Select Member |
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Codeset 110 does SHOW discrete on/off, but the do not function once the cable box is flashed. You need to delete these on the remote, and either leave the box on all the time, or use MENU/POWER & MENU/POWER/POWER for workarounds.
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| Post 3 made on Saturday December 17, 2011 at 00:30 |
Tom Ciaramitaro Loyal Member |
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Leave it on.
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| OP | Post 4 made on Saturday December 17, 2011 at 12:02 |
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Leaving the cable box on all the time is the plan. The problem is I don't see any way to preven it from getting turned off accidentally. I need a way to block the hard On and Off keys on the remote for this device. It looks like training the user is the best option.
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| Post 5 made on Monday December 19, 2011 at 19:31 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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Since you're not going the power-sensing route, you ARE going to need to maintain a manual way to turn it in/off - if the power goes out or the box crashes and reboots, or if there's a firmware upgrade, it will be back to off again.
I'm not familiar with Motorola boxes - do they lack even the awkward "power on by numeric" options from the Cisco/SAs?
(And would it KILL these companies to add proper discrete codes? Seriously, there are MILLIONS of these boxes out there and it isn't rocket science!)
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| Post 6 made on Tuesday December 20, 2011 at 12:02 |
Tom Ciaramitaro Loyal Member |
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On the cable page I leave the ON button as toggle power, for those emergencies... the OFF button shortcuts to the system power off macro.
No numeric on Comphast.
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