Much as I liked the RS remote, when I saw an open-box special Cinema 7 at Best Buy for $7.60, I went for it! The jp1 terminal is there in the battery compartment,but as a sextet of holes, not a forest of pins. Has anyone installed pins in his C7? Can a guy with fairly good soldering skills, e.g., me, do it without destroying the remote?

Sure! many of us have added the pins to the C7. There are two screws holding the case together, as well as about eight plastic 'catches' holding the top and bottom together. These remotes (C7 and RS 15-1994) can really be customized to your liking when you have the JP1 box.

Great! What do I use for pins, and how do I make sure they're aligned properly?

I use Molex pins (0.1 in header pins, 6x1 cut into 3x2, part # WMLX-109). The alignment is not very critical, just straight enough that a ribbon cable connector will go over them.

Thanks again. I'm off to HSC to find them!

Hey Michael,
I assume you want to add the pins so you can program the remote using a JP1 Upgrade Box, if so you can make the 6-pin connector using one of the parts that you need to make the box anyway.

It's Radio Shack part number 910-1530 and the parts page for the JP1 box is [Link: hifi-remote.com]

Rob.

That's the 26-pin box header?

Yes, my goal is to use the jp1 box to be able to program my C7 to work with some obscure audio gear I have. Will I be able to use the jp1 method to take learned commands, and place them in upgrade memory?

The Radio Shack box header actually has about 40 pins on it, so you break off 26 for the 26-pin box header and you break off 6 for the 6-pin connector.

You won't be able to move learned codes into the "upgrade" memory, but once you're done creating new codes for everything, you won't need learning anymore!

Rob, I thought the upgrade you guys were all working on to program the 15-994 via computer was limited to just that remote. Is it true that the One for all's will work as well. I have a OFA 9800.
If so I know there is a huge thread with a lot of info as well as your great website..I will check out

The upgrade box currently works with remotes in the same class as the 15-1994, such as the Cinema 7, RCU810, etc. The Producer 8's have a slightly different memory format, you canuse the box to download the memory but I have not totaly figured out how to add new codes to them yet, but I'm close.

Rob.

Thanks again for your time and effort in explaining this to me. From what I can gather, I need an upgrade file to add upgrade codes to my C7. But, as far as I can find, the sources on the WWW don't include these codes. So, where does one get them?

Join us at
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Register and you'll have access to the file section as well as the forum.

Well, I looked through the file section, and found no files for the gear I need to add. Where do these files come from?

We create the files. The software at the site can be used to identify the protocol and the device code for each of your devices, and the function code associated with each of your oem remote's buttons. Then you use a spreadsheet that Rob created to map your universal remote's buttons to these function codes, and cut-and-paste the code it generates back into the IR.exe software. Then upload to your remote. We share the spreadsheets to minimize the rework between people.

So, I can use the C7, hooked up via the JP1 box to my computer, and the OEM remote to analyse the signals, and then somehow assemble a device code to use in the C7?

Another question: I have access to a URC-8800 that has some of the codes I need to import into my C7. Is it possible, as a shortcut, to copy these codes into my computer, then patch them into my C7?