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Kameleon and Sony Receiver
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Post 1 made on Saturday December 21, 2002 at 08:42
mcasabar
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Hello All,

I bought my best friend the new Radio Shack Kameleon for Christmas. Since he is going to be out of town, I gave him the gift yesterday and we spent the afternoon programming it for his home theater.

We set up all devices and started programming Macros. We ran into a problem when programming the macro to watch DVDs. We cannot get the Kameleon to change audio inputs on his Sony receiver.

I tried getting the Sony remote to send the signal and have the Kameleon learn the command, but the remote sends the signal for maybe 1.5 seconds, so it's not learning the command properly. Plus, the Sony remote has this scroll button to go thru the devices. That may also be contributing to the problem.

I own the 8910 and the old URC7800. I setup my aux button on the 8910 for a Sony amp and tried to learn the command, too, but was unable.

I called Radio Shack and they said the Kameleon won't learn from the Sony Remote and that an update would be here, "in 2 weeks".

No wanting to wait, I thought I would try an advance code on the Kameleon. I found some Sony Advance codes on Hifi-remote.com.

My questions are:
1. The manual doesn't talk about it, so does the Kameleon take Advance codes?
2. If it does, do I just follow the Kameleon Programming setup and use the 994 commands?

If the Kameleon doesn't use advance codes, my final try was to use Advance codes for the receiver on either the 8910 or the 7800 and then have those send the signal to the Kameleon.
3. Do you think this would be a way to get the Kameleon to learn the command?

One final thing. The Kameleon is a nice remote. I like the layout and the changing screens. It would be nice to have it control 8 devices, for more flexibility!

Thanks in advance for all your advice!
Marlo Casabar
Keller, TX
Post 2 made on Saturday December 21, 2002 at 09:19
jamesgammel
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Marlo,

Yes, the 2133 does work with the "994" procedure to program in advance codes. The program to 8910 or 7800 and learn will also work, but the keymove procedure is more efficient on memory use.
Jim
Post 3 made on Wednesday January 15, 2003 at 00:05
Craig540
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Dont know if this will help but on my Kameleon the numbers keys change the audio inputs on my Sony receiver. So you may just need to find the corresponding number for the DVD input.

Craig
Post 4 made on Wednesday January 15, 2003 at 00:14
computx
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I have a sony reciever and the kameleons number keys would select several different inputs but not dvd. I used the learning feature to add dvd input selection.I found when doing the learning function, that it helped to have the remotes a couple of inches apart rather than right together. Also press the learn key about 1 second before pressing the old remotes function key. Keep at it and you will get it.
Post 5 made on Wednesday January 15, 2003 at 19:14
zemax
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I did the same thing as computx and it works perfectly.


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