Having purchased the URC-9910 recently I am running into a few issues that perhaps someone can help me resolve; the most important being the JP1 cable.

1. Will this cable/software allow me to backup/restore my current urc-9910 settings?

2. When adding TR-Learning codes I'm getting the message "MEM FULL." Can more memory be added/upgraded to this unit?

Basically, what are some major advantages for utilizing the JP1 cable/software? In advance, thanks for your time and support.

Yes. That's the easiest use of a JP1 cable.


You can't add memory, but with JP1 you can use memory much more effectively. You can decode your learned signals, then reprogram them into the remote in a different form that uses a seperate section of memory and much less of it. Then you can reuse the learning memory for more learned signals (or for more advanced uses).


Try some of the links in the "read this first" post in the jp1 forums:
[Link: hifi-remote.com]

Thank you for the reply. I will read the link that you've posted.

Aside from the JP1 cable (usb/parallel) what actual software files do I need; I've seen several posted at the links.

Does using the JP1 allow more configurations then what is supplied with the URC-9910 (out of the box/user manual)?

Lastly, I have a Mediatech 2200 cablebox that I am unable to locate a code for. Does anyone know what code will work? I very much would like to program it for use as it offers better modes than the default TVs' remote. Again, thanks!

Reading the link I've discovered that the purchase of the JP1/USB cable a CD is supplied that contains ir.exe. My confusion (I reckon) is some of the extender files found on the site(s). I have no idea what these are for

All the JP1 software is freeware download from the file area of the JP1 forum. That includes the lastest version of IR.exe and the various other files that IR.exe needs.

Unless you have a really rotten internet connection, I don't know why you'd want to mess around with possibly obsolete versions the cable vendor copied to a CD. Maybe he included a good enough install program to save you some effort. The JP1 software isn't hard to install, but it does involve a moderate amount of downloading varios things from varios places and unzipping etc.

The "extender" files are an optional advanced feature (still freeware download) that lets you customize the remote's behavior more than you could otherwise. The cost is the time you spend understanding how to install/configure the extender. The benefits may be major if you want a heavily customized remote with complicated macros, or the benefits may be trivial.

Even without the extender, JP1 allows you to customize the remote much more than you you could without JP1. Most people try to see whether that is enough before they decide whether to learn to configure the extender.

Also, just FYI, the best place to ask JP1 questions is over in the JP1 forums.

[Link: hifi-remote.com]

Ok.. I mainly want to know if the OFA-URC-9910 can program the Mediatech 2200 cable box?

I assume you mean with a JP1 cable, right? If so, absolutely.

I keep reading threads like this and assuming exactly the opposite. That Radunn mainly wants to know how to support his devices with a 9910, without a JP1 cable.

I didn't find any IR data on Mediatech cable boxes in any of the places I usually look for IR data. That means I have no basis for even guessing whether the 9910 has a built-in setup code for that cable box nor what that setup code might be.

So the only way I know to control that cable box with a 9910 is:

1) With or without a JP1 cable, learn a bunch of signals from the original remote to the 9910.

2a) With a JP1 cable, if those signals take more of the 9910's learning memory than you can afford, decode them and reprogram them into the 9910 by a method that doesn't take learning memory, then reuse the learning memory for more of them or other devices or whatever you wanted it for.

2b) Without a JP1 cable, if those signals take more of the 9910's learning memory than you can afford, make a wild guess how many signals you have room for and decide which ones are important enough to keep and delete the others.

If that were the case, why would he chose to add his question to a thread explicitly about using a URC-9910 with a JP1 cable? That would be pretty silly wouldn't it?