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Directv HR20 and Harmony One
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Post 1 made on Sunday March 2, 2008 at 04:59
brian188
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Has anyone figured out a way to make the Directv "press and hold" keys work with the Harmony One? The HR20 has ridiculously stupid functions in it for press and hold. For example, Press and hold PLAY button for slow motion, press and hold INFO for system info, press and hold FF for Skip to Tick, etc., etc. Has anyone figured out how to make this work on the H-1, besides press and hold then release and quickly tap it again?
Post 2 made on Sunday March 2, 2008 at 18:05
drew2k1
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As far as I know the only way is as you describe: Press-and-hold, release, press.

Some good news though, if you don't mind a long wait: DIRECTV announced at their recent investment meeting that they will be designing a new remote for release in 2009. Hopefully it will include dedicated keys to eliminate press-and-hold functions, and hopefully it will include discrete commands ...
Post 3 made on Monday March 3, 2008 at 17:17
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You might try recording the 'play' button as a raw command. The only question is whether you can hold it in long enough to trigger the hr20 but short enough to avoid the harmony software complaining you held the key too long.

Learning as a raw command should bypass any processing the harmony software does and allow you to send the long 'press play and hold' sequence as a single short (from your point of view with your fingers) button press.
OP | Post 4 made on Tuesday March 4, 2008 at 03:32
brian188
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Thanks for the responses. I did try the raw command, no luck. Can't hold the button long enough for it work without the H-1 saying i held it too long. Any shorter it's just Play, info, ff, etc.

I just wonder if there are codes out there somewhere that can do it. I had Comcast DVR for years, and they never said there was skip button for it. I found a code on a board one day programmed the remote and boom I had skip. It just makes sense, the DVR understands the command so there must be a way to send it.
Post 5 made on Tuesday March 4, 2008 at 16:10
drew2k1
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All you can do is wait for the redesigned DIRECTV replacement remote ... in a year or two ...
Post 6 made on Tuesday March 4, 2008 at 16:27
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On March 4, 2008 at 16:10, drew2k1 said...
All you can do is wait for the redesigned DIRECTV replacement
remote ... in a year or two ...

There is no reason they need to wait for a new remote - they can put those IR commands into the receiver with a software update now. Same way we get discrete commands today when the remote doesn't have them.

I thought that support could setup certain buttons to mimic the press and hold feature. In fact I thought I tried this on my 720 and some buttons did it and some didn't, but to be honest I don't remember. I just gave up using those features most of the time, which was hard being a hardcore Tivo user.
Post 7 made on Tuesday March 4, 2008 at 19:57
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On March 4, 2008 at 16:27, akirby said...
There is no reason they need to wait for a new remote
- they can put those IR commands into the receiver with
a software update now.

In a perfect world, yes, you're right. But a request for dedicated/discrete IR commands has been on the Wish List at DIRECTV for over a year with no indication we'll ever see it. (Compare that to many of the other requests on the Wish List that DIRECTV has fulfilled.)

That's why I think we won't see progress on this front until we see the redesigned remote. I don't know the full list of changes, but I know it will have at least one new key: a "soft-key" that a user can program through the receiver's GUI to perform any function from a predefined list of functions.


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