Please help. I need discrete power commands for the Mitsubishi or Hughes HD sats. Any help would be of great service to humanity.

They do not exist. Leave the STB on all the time, that seems to be what everyone else does. There is no need to switch it off.

Has anyone verified with the manufacturer that there are no discrete power codes? Why would they have discrete codes for HD and SD but not for power?

Where'd you find the discrete HD/SD codes?

I stumbled upon them myself while I was out in the field several weeks ago and tried to submit them here-- they never got posted as far as I could tell.

One important thing that I left out was that the "Action" command must be issued to the sat receiver first.

I found the commands by learning them into a Pronto from the original remote --- I believe the one that defaults to SD requires a short button press while learning, and the the code that defaults to HD requires holding the HD/SD button down during the learning process.

Anyways, those codes seem to work 100% every time --- quite a pleasant surprise!


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I don't think anyone has found the right person at Hughes to confirm this, but I beleiev some one did use a One-for-all remote and generated what they believed were all possible codes, and none of them were discrete on/off. But as I said in my previous post, why would you need them? The STB is designed to be left "on" all the time - and even when it is switched "off" most of the receiver is powered up and working.

Hello, yes, I did find the right person to talk to at Hughes via my Mitsubishi technical support provider. We sent a unit, two learning remotes, and the original remote to Crestron, who provided us with a discreet set of codes for HD and SD. No power codes were available... the units consume the same amount of power on or off...leave it on. By the way, the EPA will soon reqire these units to have an energy conserving "standby" mode...possibly spurring savy mfg. to provide codes?