Hi!

I just joined this Forum as I have some problems with my remotes. Maybe some of you have some advice for me.

I was looking for an affordable universal remote with PC programming.
Tested Harmony but I'm not to keen on the quiz style programming.
At the end I went for an old Denon RC7000 with the half finished software.
I like it a lot but there is a problem with my VU+ satellite receiver.

This has a strange (bit flipping) remote code format which is hard to learn.
Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
I would like to "read in" and clean up the code generated by the VU+ remote and send this cleaned up code to my Denon for learning.

In the documentation for the Code Manager Tool there is drawing for a 3.5 mm stereo plug based optical coupler. Could someone advise me what sort of an IR receiver diode do I need for that?

If reading the codes are done, how can I send codes as an IR sample out of the computer?
Although I have the Denon RC7001 Serial Extender with IR Blasters, the format is unknown and so I don't think I can utilize this out of Code Manager as an IR sender.

Please don't treat my questions dead serious. I know that there are specialist with the right tools to do this. It is more of an experiment if this can be done with a small budget or not. (The Code Manager PDF suggests, it can be done.)

Thanks and best Regards,
Steve

Hey Steve, I can help with the 3.5 plug setup. I just snipped a ir led from a old remote, stuck it in a breadboard and used a mono plug from a dead microphone. Just did this yesterday. Have fun with the software, it works good.

Hi and thanks!

It's a good idea. I might just as well look around for an old VCR and take out the receiver Photo-diode. I need some solution first to read in the codes.
There are lots of IR receiver transistors available but they already do amplification and so they don't fit the simple 3.5 plug solution.
Finding a simple IR foto-transistor is not that simple. (Or I'm not looking on the right places.)

If I understand correctly you are using the IR Led to send out codes, but how do you do that from CodeMan? I have not seen a Command or menu entry to send out IR codes.