On April 20, 2007 at 02:06, jeffnel said...
I finally have the blinds working.
I assume that means the "UP" and "DOWN" functions in that CCF file worked for you.
could you explain a little more
about the RC5 signals?
There are many different IR protocols (ways of encoding commands in IR signals). "RC5" is one of those protocols.
The "UP" and "DOWN" signals didn't look like RC5. But I'm not certain of that. It is strange that a device would have five commands in one IR protocol and two in another.
Do you know what those five commands do for the blinds? Apparently you didn't need those five commands?
How do you know those five signals
are not readable by universal?
Pronto Hex has a generic format for recording almost all types of IR signals, when its software doesn't recognize the specific protocol. So far as I know, the Universal Browser understands only that generic format.
Pronto Hex also has a bunch of different condensed formats for recording the several IR protocols that it can recognize. RC5 is one of the protocols it can recognize. Typically a clean learn of RC5 would be recognized and stored in the condensed form, while a worse learn of RC5 (that still might still be good enough to use) won't be recognized, so it would be stored in generic format.
My decodeCCF program gives info on each of the IR signals in a CCF file. It showed me that those five signals were RC5 in the condensed format (that I think Universal Browser doesn't understand) and the last two signals were in generic format and either are an IR protocol I've never seen before or are such bad learns that my software can't recognize it (My software recognizes most of the signals that Pronto software can't recognize).