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| Topic: | Motorola Cable Box Discrete Power Work Around This thread has 7 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Sunday March 2, 2008 at 18:30 |
Michael Zann Founding Member |
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I have a Motorola DCH3200 cable box from Charter. The work around for discrete on off is: On: Info, Power, Power Off: Info, Power
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on March 4, 2008 06:52.
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| Post 2 made on Monday March 3, 2008 at 19:30 |
tgrugett Select Member |
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So...
the old... menu>power>power=On and menu>power=Off does not work in your market? Do you have to enter the power before info for On?
This usually works in most markets because menu with the power off brings up the motorola basic setup menu and not the provider's software menu. I suppose, though, that the firmware could still be different in this regard.
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| OP | Post 3 made on Monday March 3, 2008 at 22:21 |
Michael Zann Founding Member |
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It's info not menu. I edited my post. You were right about the On sequence.
Last edited by Michael Zann
on March 4, 2008 06:54.
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| Post 4 made on Wednesday March 5, 2008 at 00:08 |
Tom Ciaramitaro Loyal Member |
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Menu, Power works until you have a DVR that is recording. Instead of doing what you want it to, a pop up window says, "Do you want to cancel recording" and your workaround just took a dive.
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| Post 5 made on Thursday March 6, 2008 at 23:11 |
Groovit Long Time Member |
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That is why I gave up on workarounds a long time ago.
Funny... I was in some training at AV*D about a year and a half ago when some guy began complaining about cable box power and control issues at which time I said, "...sure you can..." I have never seen so many people scramble for pencils and paper so fast in my life. It disrupted the training for about 5 minutes as the excitement bubbled over.
"Poor suckers", I thought to myself.
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| Post 6 made on Friday May 16, 2008 at 13:19 |
On March 6, 2008 at 23:11, Groovit said...
That is why I gave up on workarounds a long time ago.
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| Post 7 made on Tuesday May 20, 2008 at 07:24 |
Tom Ciaramitaro Loyal Member |
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The good thing is that you can leave them on all the time and have no issues. Even if power goes off at the house, they will still power back up by themselves.
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| Post 8 made on Tuesday June 3, 2008 at 17:24 |
dtc Long Time Member |
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To get the workaround to work when recording, add a Live command to the macros.
On : Menu, Power, Power, Live
Off: Menu, Power, Live
I also add a volume commands to the On macro in case Mute happens to be on. Just an extra precaution, but not necessary.
On: Menu, Power, Power, Live, Vol+,Vol-
I find these macros work reliably and have not had any problem with these boxes in months using these commands.
I have 2 boxes and do keep 1 on all the time, since it is not visible. The other is visible and I do not want to see the display (channel or time) when it is not in use. So I use these macros. Would gladly leave it on if I could turn off the display.
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