Hello. I have downloaded the CCP software onto my windows 7 laptop, and I want to know how to import an fully configured and working MX-980 remote into the CCP software so that I can make a few changes.

Any advice, links to tutorials, etc., would be greatly appreciated.

All I am trying to do is modify the Off settings (to remove sending the off command to my Rogers cable box).

I also need to add a new device option, that will change the TV to switch input settings when selecting that new device option.

How hard is it to do this kind of thing?

Hit communications tab and get from remote!
Save file before making changes.
Make changes and then create a new file......Good luck!

Make sure you have windows mobile device center installed. You didn't mention if you are on 64 bit or 32 bit so I can't link the file. However, it is labeled for Vista.

do you have the original file from the mx980 editor?  or are you trying to retrieve the file from the remote?

if you have the file, it can be easily imported into CCP using the transporter function.

if you don't have the file, it is possible that you have to retrieve it using the mx980 editor with the remote plugged into the computer.  then you would use the transporter to import the file into CCP.

on some remotes programmed with the older editors, it isn't possible to retrieve the file using CCP unless the firmware in the remote is updated.  and the only way to update the remote, is to send a file to it, which would wipe out the program on the remote.

I was able to connect the mx-980 to my laptop and I downloaded the current configuration, but some of the programming didn't transfer correctly.

Specifically the main On and Off macros were missing power on / off aliases for the Denon 2310 receiver.

Furthermore on the Receiver macro pages, the on / off IR codes didn't work, but the power toggle did.

Can anyone suggest why the entire program on the remote wouldn't have cleanly been downloaded into my laptop via the software?

How can I verify or update the IR codes?

I am hesitant to send any modified programming down to the remote.

It's been my experience it is all or nothing.



This could have been how it was originally programmed. When you import pages for devices in the 980, it generates a "power" page, but it doesn't always link the discretes to those buttons when you add codes.


How about you upload the file that you have so we can look at it and see what is being referenced?


If you give an exact model number, I would be happy to post whatever codes you need.


Likely whatever you have in CCP is what was already on the remote. Only one way to find out....lol

After doing some more experimentation, I also discovered that the Power On and Power Off 'buttons' on the Receiver page did not turn the Denon 2310 on or off, there was a Toggle Power "button" and that worked.

How can I determine if there are really discrete On and Off codes that will work.

What is strange is that the remote is definitely turning the receiver on and off, so I think it does have the right codes programmed into it, they just didn't seem to be imported correctly into the CCP software.

Ive never had a Denon receiver that was made in the last 8-10 years not respond to discrete power commands. Also that model should be capable of turning on with an input command. Is there an input command on the power on macro? Have you tried sending an input command from the receiver device page? I would say take SysIntegration's advice and upload your file. I'm sure somebody can figure it out for you.

It's a two step process to import a remote that was programmed in the dedicated editor into CCP.

First, you have to extract the program out of the remote. It will end in .mxg, .mxj, etc. depending on the remote model.

Second, you have to open up CCP and start a new remote and when the New Remote dialog box pops up, select Open Existing File as Template and then browse to where your .mxg file is. This will import that file type into CCP and let you save it as part of a project with .ccp as the suffix.

Transporter, in my experience, lets me import devices and their associated code sets but rarely do the macros and graphics come with it.

I've not had good luck with uploading a non-.ccp file out of a remote with CCP so I could open it and convert it otherwise. I have been able to open Windows Mobile Device Manager and browse the files as the MX980 is closely related to a WinCE PDA.

Lowhz, I think you're on the right track but I don't recall if there was ever a stand alone MX980 editor. However, I did run into a similar problem when the version of the CCP editor that programmed the remote was very old compared to the current running version where you're attempting to upload programming from the remote.

I don't remember if there was a 980 stand alone. That remote is getting old. There was a 950 editor.

But for the record, that method I posted above is how you import an old remote program into CCP.

Transporter never fully materialized as what it was originally intended to be,

Yes there WAS a stand alone editor for the MX980. I still use it. CCP does not give me any reason to change over.

Where can I get the standalone editor for the MX980?

Why is the stand alone editor preferable to the CCP program, which seems to be able to import the remotes current program.

if the remote was programmed with the old stand alone editor, that may be the only way to retrieve a file off the remote.  it is not preferable, just necessary in some cases.

i don't think that URC has the stand alone editor in the dealer section of the website anymore.  you will probably have to call tech support to get your hands on a copy of it.

I believe the other replies here are incorrect. Never heard of the CCP transporter module - although this description, from a URC tech, may be what was meant. This description is for converting MX-880 mxj files to ccp. If your remote uses a different file type - follow the same steps

CCP - to convert mxj (or other non-ccp files) to ccp
Go to
Program
Configure Home
Click on 880 (or whatever your remote is)
Click Add - will create a 2nd 880
Next Window will be “Model Property”
Under Option, select Existing
Click Browse
Under file type, select mxj (or whatever your existing file type is)
Navigate to file and select it
Click Convert
Do a File SaveAs and will autmoatically save as a ccp file