| Post 1 made on Thursday January 8, 2009 at 09:33 |
Can one use the RF functions of the 890 remote on the compatible Direct TV HD DVR's?
These DVR's have the capability of RF.
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| Post 2 made on Thursday January 8, 2009 at 10:04 |
akirby Super Member |
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No. It is illegal for one company to use the same RF frequency as another company, unless they're both using Z-wave (DirecTV is not). This has to be done, otherwise devices from different mfrs would interfere with each other (the tv remote opens the garage door and vice versa, etc.).
Z-wave uses a common frequency with digital addressing (think of it as a computer network with each device having an IP address so the packets don't get confused) so that's not a problem.
The 890 only communicates with the RF extender and other 890 remotes via RF or other products via Z-wave. Won't work on DirecTV.
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| Post 3 made on Thursday January 8, 2009 at 22:39 |
bang on, what akirby said.
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