Am I the only one to whom this has happened? I purchase the MX-850 and download the software. I have all sorts of issues trying to program the little **stard as the program keeps crashing. Finally I have deleted and installed the software sufficiently for my computer and the software to like each other enough for me to actually generate a program. But the program will not load.

Turns out I am pressing the "upload" button which downloads the file in the remote to your computer when I want the download button which sends the compiled file into the remote. Anyone else confused by upload and download? Do you not really upload a file into the device or do you download it? A minor inconvenience but it is a job 90 minutes away and I have spent 15 hours trying to load some stupid IR file into some inexpenisve remote. I chose the rat **astard as it would program quicker and get me out faster. I called them loaded for bear but luckily held my toungue. How stupid do you have to be not to know the difference between upload and download? Is is wonderful knowing I bring the bell curve back to the standard deviation.

Alan

No Alan,

Whats nice is that you, like me, can laugh at yourself and find it cathartic to vent about some little idiotic thing thats now behind you.

I remember taking two Prontos in a row back to AVAD as defective because they would not learn codes only to finally realize that I had to shoot the remote with the code to be learned at the BACK of the remote... not the front. I called AVAD and told them that the remotes were not in fact defective... their customer was.

Hope today goes better.

You must not of done many prontos.... Same mislableing there..... Drove me nuts for a while.. But now I just accept it. Upload/Download whould be labled vfromt he Initiation Point. THE PC, If I'm going from my PC TO a Remote...... THATS AN UPLOAD.

I thinkthe original prontos got mislabled like this.... and URC decided toleave it the same to avoid confusion for programmers..... Pure speculation.... But thtas the only thing that makes any sense to me.

This is a funny little issue because I always held that the common use of the terms download and upload were reversed as popularized by the dawn of the internet. In traditional computing terms (mainframes and servers predating the internet) Download is to send somthing *downline* from the operator and Upload is to pull it up from the server that is away from the operator. Therefore, I always thought that most people had it wrong with respect to PCs and URC got it right for the remotes. Of course, it could just be that Impaqt is right and URC thinks so highly of themselves that they put themselves (or their remotes) in the 'supreme' user point of view. They are downloading to that lowly thing called PC.... Heck they have Master right in the name! ;)

Can't prove if my notion is absolutely right, but I guess we are all creatures of habit one way or another! Glad you are laughing about it Alan; just further proves your human side!

I learned my lesson on that with a JVC remote many moons ago. Spent over an hour cussing and mumbling trying to figure out why the learn button would flash but I couldn't teach it a single code.

Didn't catch the laughing part from Alan. Maybe in a week or so...

I do that same faucking thing constantly. I've programmed hundreds of the things, and if I use the drop-down menu, I screw it up. I have to use the little icons with the arrows going in and out of the computer.

PEBKAC error, eh









(problem exists between keyboard and chair)

LOL same thing happend here except it only took me a half of an hour to figure it out:)
I guess i got lucky or.................Maybe it has something to do with gene pool????

Actually, when you hit 'download' your sending your PC file to the device (remote).
'Upload' sends your remote to the PC.
I think I've made every mistake; except that one!

Most recently, telling a client I would program his Marantz RC2000mkII for a flat two hour fee (how hard can it be?)!

I should have given him an MX-850,fully programmed, for FREE!!! I would have been money ahead! What a POS!!!

Oh well, life goes on! :-(

Ever have one of those late nights where you finally figure out why the kitchen TV doesn't work? Hear I am searching around for the remote and then I recall having put a burrito inside it a little earlier.

Well, we've ALL been there in one way or another.

Mine?

Trying to enter IR into a Russound CA-LCD keypad with DAN/DSC sidecars in a kitchen.

Could get the da** things to give me the "OK" flash...Cussing, carrying on, etc.

Turned off the nearby undercounter FLOURESCENT light, and it worked very well.....DUH....

Sometimes we have to humble ourselves.....lol