Hi All,

Just got my Harmony 880 over the weekend. I was trying to configure the remote to set to video 1 when I watch TV and Video 6 (HDMI) when I watch DVD.

Example, I was watching TV on video 1 and then when I want to watch DVD, it will not go to Video 6. Vice versa when from DVD mode, when I choose to watch TV, it does not go to Video 1

Having gone through the setup process and numerous time of re-configuring the remote, I am still unsuccessful in getting the remote to automatically go to the correct video output.

Anyone of you encounter similar problem like this? Any advise or help will be most grateful.

BTW, my TV model is Tosiba 37WL48E LCD TV.

Thank you all for your advise.

Did you click on the correct option for how your set switches inputs? Does it have discrete commands; do you have to press a button to go from one input to the other; or do you press a button to open a menu of inputs then have to select the correct input by pressing ? button.

Hi,

There are basically 2 ways to switch the input.

One way is to hold the button (for about 1.5 sec) and a menu will appear and then scroll to the input that you wish to use and press ok.

The other way is to press the button repeatly until I reach the desire input.

I have taught the remote to use the 2nd method but so far have not been successful.

As for the 1st method, I am not too sure how to do it? Any advise.

Many thanks.

Does Help fix the problem?

Have you tried tweaking the interdevice delay and the input delay?

If the command for the first method is in the database you can try that. If not learn the command to that device, then redo the intial setup and indicate that you press a button to open a menu to select which input you want. It will ask you to pick which button you press open menu, then it will ask what other button you need to press to get to the input you want (up,down, left or right), then it will if you need to press another button to execute in your case "ok" Save and update As far as the 1.5 secs that you need to hold the button for you might need to learn the command in RAW mode or adjust repeats. Hopefully someone can help with the timing of that not to sure unless it's right in front of me.

Also curios does this happen from an off and on state?

Hello Beano88,

I recently setup a Toshiba TV that sounds similar to yours. Initially I was always one input short of the desired video destination. I ended up telling it that it used the "input next" key to open a menu and then it used the "input next" key again to cycle through the inputs. This worked in my case.

I was initially one input short because if you manually push the button on the TV itself it would accept the first button push as an increment of the video inputs. Through the remote the first "input next" command only opened the menu and did not increment the video input.

Don't know if this might help you or not?

Regards,
Ela

Hi All,

Thanks for all your advise.

I will give it a try again and see whether it works.

I had a similar problem last night with my Sony TV, it would set it to Video6 when I wanted Video7 for my 'Watch Cable' Activity.

My fix was: Goto 'TV' - 'Adjust Inputs' - go next til you see the Video1 - Video7 setup, when I check the drop down selection I notice my Video1 it was set for "SetinputType Video1" and Video2 was "SetinputType Video2" and so on. I changed them all to "InputVideo1" and so on instead and that fixed my problem.

Maybe this is the same problem you have.

Hi All,

I have follow on your advise and instructions and still not able to get the TV to the correct input. How do I learn the command in "RAW" mode?


Any more advise will be most appreciated.

Many thanks.

Hi again!

Following my previous post, just like to check which option should I be selecting? I was prompted the following options:

How do you change inputs for your TV using the original remote?
A. I flip through the inputs until I get to the right one (usually for TV, VCR, etc.)
B. I go directly to the input I want (usually for AV Receiver, Amplifier, etc.)
C. I press a button to bring up an on-screen menu of inputs, a button to cycle between them, and a button to select the input I want
D. I press a button to bring up an on screen menu of inputs, and a button (or buttons) to directly (no cycling) select the input I want

I selected C. I have also tried A but so far both selection have not successful.

Thanks again for the help!

Hi again,

I also noticed on the adjust input; I only setup the following as valid input:

-Tuner
-Video1
-Video2
-Video3
-Component1
-Component2
-HDMI
-BM
-PC

However, when it was shown in the next step for input selection, 3 other inputs are added on top of my setup and they are as follow:
-Channel 3
-Channel 4
-Channel
-Tuner
-Video1
-Video2
-Video3
-Component1
-Component2
-HDMI
-BM
-PC

My question is why are there additional input shown? Is it normal or is there certain thing that i need to setup to remove the additional 3 inputs on top.

Thanks again for all your advise.

On the "Learn Infrared Commands" page for the device, click "Custom." That will bring up a new page with the option to learn in RAW mode.

Hello Beano,
From what you have written the option C sounds like it should work.
There are others on this forum much more experienced than I but here are my suggestions.

I do not know why the editor has added the additional 3 options on your input list. You should be able to edit the list to remove them. If you pick the corrrect input cycle option and make sure the input selection list is correct then it should work for you.
I believe the editor also asks a question about whether or not unused inputs are skipped. Have you cycled through the video inputs using your old remote (or button on tthe tv itself) to confirm that your list of inputs is correct? You might also cycle through the video input list using "device mode" on your Harmony remote ( I assume you would use the "InputNext" function). This will help you assure what your input list should look like as well as how the TV responds to the InputNext command from the Harmony Remote.

Note how long the TV takes to respond to each push of the InputNext button. There is an "Input Delay" setting that can affect how this operates. If the TV takes very long to respond to the InputNext command you may have to increase that delay time.

I am unclear as to why you want to learn in the raw mode but if I remember correctly you go to the bottom of the first learn page and select a custom option. Then in the next page you select to learn in Raw mode.

If you still have problems then please describe exactly how the system is responding. Does the TV fail to cycle only on power up but cycles correctly once power is already on? If so your Power On delay may be too short.
It would be easier to help you if you describe in more detail how the system responds.

You can also use the troubleshooting option in the editor to get suggestions as to why things are not working.


Regards,
Ela