OK, I find it sorta hard to understand how any company (even Italian) can produce a $30k+ projector in 2011 without a direct IR input, or a voltage trigger so it could power on from an output trigger from the processor.

But it seems unfathomable that there is no Discrete On/Off for this projector. You must turn it on by selecting an input source, and turn it off with a “toggle” on/off code. And even those I cannot get to work because there's something unusual about the C3X IR codes that make them virtually unlearnable by other learning devices like the Xantech PCIR.

If I could find discrete Hex IR codes for the on/off toggle and input select “0” (that worked) then I could at least make this thing acceptable. But the ones on this thread do not:

[Link: remotecentral.com]

I've spent 4 hours looking for a solution to this. Can anyone help me -- before I take a hammer to this projector to turn it off for a final time?

Have you tried these?

Power On with input selection is he best way is it not?

What about RS232?


Cheers
Jason

We cannot find the hex ir codes to make the input selection work, and Xantech's PCIR can't learn the ir code from the C3X remote. Acts like it learns it but it doesn't. I've been told that Sim2 uses "toggle bit commands" whatever that is. If I had read the IR limitations of this supposedly top-of-the-line projector, I would never have bought this piece of crap! Now it seems we have to can our theater control system and get something that communicates through an RS232 adapter. Unbelievable, compared to the simplicity of the Marantz projector we just replaced -- great picture or not.

So I don't understand. It seems like you were looking for the Hex codes for "0" and Off (probably listed as Standby), and Jason posted a link to those hex codes. Did the hex codes work or not?

If not, post the the hex you have learned from the original remote. We'll take a look at it, and see if it is recognizable.