Hi all,

This is my first post in these forums. I am setting up a Universal Remote MX-950 and I want to identify all of the discrete on/off codes for my various devices. I have gotten them for everything but my Marantz MV5100 VCR.

Searching this site, I found code for discrete on and off functions, but it is in a format that a) I don't know how to use, and b) I don;t know ho to convert to one that I can use in the MX-950 Editor universal browser.

You can see the code I am talking about right here on this page:

[Link: remotecentral.com]

How can I take the information that looks like this:

0000 0073 0000 0012 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 0040 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 00a0 0020 0020 0020 0040 0020 0020 0040 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 0040 0020 0aa4

And figure out how to apply it to a button on my MX-950 so I can use it?

I have extensively searched these forums but I can;tfigure it out. I appreciate any help someone experienced can provide that would allow me to use these codes, which are the last ones I need before I can configure my system.

Thanks in advance.

I guess that means you don't have the version of Universal browser that lets you directly paste in Pronto Hex.

But you do have Universal Browser (part of the MX-950 editor program) and it can drag Pronto Hex from a CCF file.

Most CCF files containing that Marantz signal have it in a form Universal Browser doesn't accept. But several have it in the form Universal Browser will accept. One of those is:

[Link: remotecentral.com]

There seem to be a lot of different Marantz products that use that identical discrete On signal (I wonder what you do if you have multiple such products). The SR7400 receiver in the above CCF file uses the same discrete On as you quoted for your MV5100 VCR.

But maybe the page you got that info from is wrong. There is a pattern to the way most devices use IR signals and a VCR should not be using the discrete ON and OFF signals shown on that page.

I emailed a CCF file to you containing three other signals. The discrete On and Off for a Marantz VCR ought to be two of those three signals. I see no evidence in files I've downloaded from people who actually have Marantz equipment that these really are the correct signals. But logically they ought to be and they would be easy for you to test and find out.

Please report back on whether the SR7400 signals linked above work as discrete On and Off for your VCR and whether different the signals I emailed work.

Hi John,

Thanks for your extremely helpful answer. I also did receive the e-mail you sent and attached .ccf files. This evening, I will figure out how to get these codes onto my MX-950 and I'll test them all out.

I will report back to this thread following testing to let you know which of these worked for the Marantz MV5100.

Assuming some of these are going to work, once verified, perhaps we can get these codes posted on the site in a location that will make it easy for furute users to find them, like under the component-specific codes for VCR's in the files section for Universal Remote.

I look forward to testing these out tonight!

OK. I have tried all of the codes you referenced in the link, and also the ones that you E-mailed to me, and none of them worked. I also tried copying the hex code I referenced above, putting it into ProntiEdit which I downloaded tonight, saving it as .ccf and then importing that onto the MX-950, also with no luck.

I have also been trying all of the IR database codes in the MX-950's database to see if any of them work, but so far, no luck with those either.

This is driving me nuts. I am pretty sure there are discrete codes available for this high-end VCR, but nobody seems to know how to identify them.

What do you suggest I try next?

Save your working learned signals (from the original remote) for the MV5100 as an .mxd file and email that to me. I can examine them and see what they encode. If they match the signals listed on that page you linked, I don't know if I'll have any more suggestions.

But if they don't match (which seems likely since the signals you pulled in with Universal Browser didn't work) then examining those signals will likely give me a clue what the discrete codes should look like.