Hey all!
Its time for me to make some a more changes to my CCF. One of the things I want to add are more discrete codes for my devices. I now have a VCR (Mitsubishi) that has known discrete on/off in the files section of this site. I also have a Panasonic DVD-RV30 that is listed. So, I looked in PE40 and see that the default values for on and off from the UDB are slightly different in their structure. To me that would mean they are sending different commands, but they are only toggling. Then I look at the on and off commands listed on this site and see that they are considerably longer. Being a software engineer, I can tell the command is several BYTES longer. What gives? I would expect that the destination device (DVD or VCR) would reject a long command like this. Is this correct that the commands in the UDB may be a lot shorter than the command that is actually required?

Thanks,
Frank

Frank,

The UDB uses a different data structure than the learned commands. Usually they start out with a 7000 or 8000 rather than the 0000 of the learned commands. The UDB commands are shorthand, the learned command with the exception of the first four words are alternating On and Off times (expressed in terms of wavelentghs of the IR carrier frequency) of the actual command. Sometimes the learned commands are several repetitions of the same thing.

For the most part the discrete commands are accurate and they work. If you are actually having a problem with one I'll take a look.

In Files|Pronto|user documentation|there is an explatation by Barry Gordon about how learned commands work.

-Jon

Thanks Jon. I'll give them a try. There are two other devices that I have that currently have no listed discrete power. One is the Pioneer Voyager 1000 digital cable box. The other is a Sharp TV model #20E-S40M (has G0962CESA in the corner on the remote). Power on and off on both devices would be nice.

Thanks,
Frank