Thank you Mike C for the update to my question. The number of initial users is impressive. I know you need 10-30 times as many for commercial success, but you have an impressive sounding product and a goodly number of customers. I look forward to becoming one soon.

I am a Win2k user, so am not waiting for XP stuff, nor Pronto stuff. If you think it valuable, posting pointers on your web site to discussions of experience with people using the IRCLONE-MX would make nice reads.

A very successful piece of hardware and software engineering.

Thanks Want1394 (Firewire?)

Look forward to having you as a customer. We do have some links on our site but they are a little out of date. Must get the webmaster to upgrade them. Thanks.

Mike

As I feared....perhaps I worded my question to Mike poorly....

I'm afraid this won't work for me - I've found that with difficult to learn codes i.e. Philips RC5 codes, and whatever the problem still is with Pioneer electronics, while the Pre Programmed codes work fine, no matter what method you employ to learn them to another remote (even another MX-500), they don't learn correctly.

Wish there were a way to remap the P-Pro keys to the keys of your choice.

I am interested in getting individual commands for on and off from a cheap remote. I took a quick look at radio shack and universal and noticed that they had a power button rather than separate on and off. I didn't notice anything in their manuals about individual codes that could be entered for these variations. Could you please give me a model number for a remote that would send custom commands so I can have the MX-500 learn them? Also, if there is a web site which has a listing of these custom codes, that would be great too!

Thanks

Cal, nice buring job, bet you won't even remember to look here.:) A one-for-all/radio shack remote doesn't need separate ON & OFF keys, with the use of Advanced codes, any key can become a power a key. If there's discrete commands for your gear, once you map it to a key on the OFA/RS remote, then you can teach it to the mx-500.

Anyone or Daniel,
Is IRCLONE-MX still a viable product? I went to their website and they said that the 2.0 release of their editor software was Beta, but that it would be production soon. Unfortunately the web page was marked as being updated 2/03/04 I sent queries to [email protected] and [email protected] and recieved no answer. Now maybe they don't check their e-mail very often because it seems as if I read somewhere that they had only sold 150 of the devices and maybe they have given up. I have a mx-500 that i really need this product for. I have learned codes, programmed macros and they work after I program them and the next day some of it works some of it doesn't. the next day they may work again. I don't know if the codes are hard for the mx-500 to learn and I am wasting my time. I am programming a GI 922 4DTV Sat Receiver a Denon avr-3805 and a pioneer DVR-520H-S and a JVC HD-61Z575 HD-ILA rear projection TV. I believe most of the problems are with the 4DTV
TIA for any help

I just purchased this about 6 weeks ago. I've been in contact with Mike over an issue with the software/driver and Win XP Pro SP2. I can only get this to work on my Win 2k laptop. FYI.

I have XP ver 2 and got things loaded and working after a ittle effort. Both the beta and prior versions work just fine. The trick is loading the driver You need FTDI FT8UZxx to install as a USB driver. Use the driver(inf) file for XP downloaded on a CD with the program. Use the windows "install hardware" option and tell it to go to the CD and then browse to select the info file on the CD. This will instal the USB driver for the irclone program and all should work just perfectly. I tried to get info from IRclone people and theyir instructions did not use the screens I get with XP 2 but the above worked fine for me.