On September 23, 2006 at 22:55, Nexsen B. Johnson said...
Someone suggested in settings you can tell it to use any
numeric key as power on but I wasn't sure if it was just
"ON" and not toggle.
Yes it is just ON not toggle.
If the box is already on the digit acts as a digit. If the box was off the digit acts as power on.
I'm pretty sure that if the power was off the digit does not also act as a digit. It would be much easier if it did. Then you could just send the command to tune to a channel regardless of whether you started on or off.
Long ago I had a timed system externally setting the channel on an (older model) cable box. It sent the full channel number. Then paused long enough to time out the partial channel entry in case the box had been off, then sent the full channel number again.