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| Topic: | Controlling Denon 3806 via 232 with Prodigy This thread has 26 replies. Displaying posts 16 through 27. |
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| Post 16 made on Monday November 22, 2010 at 15:58 |
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All you are showing there is feedback.
You need to send the serial commands from realtime to see if they are being sent. Don't send with an ir remote. Double click the volume up as an example or an input select in the command section.
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| OP | Post 17 made on Monday November 22, 2010 at 16:21 |
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On November 22, 2010 at 15:58, Gman-north said...
All you are showing there is feedback.
You need to send the serial commands from realtime to see if they are being sent. Don't send with an ir remote. Double click the volume up as an example or an input select in the command section. I did that, it shows them being sent, but nothing happens, no change, no feedback, nothing. 
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| Post 18 made on Monday November 22, 2010 at 16:38 |
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Ok so you now know that the processor commands are working fine. Next move to checking your cable connections. Do you have a serial end that you can make up with a piece of cat 5?
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| OP | Post 19 made on Monday November 22, 2010 at 16:53 |
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On November 22, 2010 at 16:38, Gman-north said...
Ok so you now know that the processor commands are working fine. Next move to checking your cable connections. Do you have a serial end that you can make up with a piece of cat 5? No, I have a handful of RJ45-DB9 connectors, I have used my toner/tester to tone out each pin and confrim that they are good. I was half tempted to try just pushing bare wires into the serial jack on the avr.
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| Post 20 made on Monday November 22, 2010 at 17:24 |
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It sounds like your RX pin is working ok but the TX may not be wired correctly
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| OP | Post 21 made on Monday November 22, 2010 at 18:04 |
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On November 22, 2010 at 17:24, Gman-north said...
It sounds like your RX pin is working ok but the TX may not be wired correctly You mean on the PMC2 processor, right? I tried Com2 and have the same results. In Realtime, if I go to Theater, AVR, Commands and double click any of the INPUT commades I get this message: The value of this signal cannot be set.
Some signal changes can come only come from the device and cannot be simulated in real-time mode. Exactly like that.
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| Post 22 made on Monday November 22, 2010 at 18:23 |
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On your cable. What I was getting at was that you were receiving feedback which means that your RX portion is presumably wired correctly. That's why I suggested making up a new cable so that you can test using a straight thru connection using pins 2,3,5 without the adaptor that you are using
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| OP | Post 23 made on Monday November 22, 2010 at 18:57 |
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Okay, so. I downloaded something called DOCKLIGHT. and using my usb-db9 cable, I have full control and am getting the proper feedback.
I also discovered that everytime I changed the com port to #2, it forced it back to 1.
So, I have to remove the AVR, then add a nother serial device, then add back in the AVR to test comm 2, perhaps its the port on the PMC2. I also have another PMC2 that I can plug in and test.
I will go through my wiring again as well to try and figure out. I'm just glad that I forced control of the Denon and it appears to be working correctly.
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| Post 24 made on Monday November 22, 2010 at 20:04 |
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Why dont you just put the denon on com1. Sounds like youll be in for a hurting if you start removing crap from systembuilder.
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| OP | Post 25 made on Monday November 22, 2010 at 20:44 |
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On November 22, 2010 at 20:04, Hertz said...
Why dont you just put the denon on com1. Sounds like youll be in for a hurting if you start removing crap from systembuilder. I've been testing on Com1, but now wondering if its a bad port.
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| OP | Post 26 made on Monday November 22, 2010 at 21:36 |
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So I tried a different PMC2, same results.
I'm stumped.
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| Post 27 made on Tuesday November 23, 2010 at 07:39 |
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Your best bet is to make a new cable with a piece of CAT5 and a RS-232 end at the receiver. Make a STRAIGHT THRU connection to pins 2,3,5 to the COM port you are using on the back of the PMC2. If everything works after this you will know if your cable is bad that you are using. You say you tried another processor, this leads me to believe that the cable you are using is bad.
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