Is there any place/site tha cross references the codesets in the 3000 with actual model numbers?

Thanks,
Scott

God! Wouldn't that be nice. I suppose it would be too much to ask Phillips to compile one...

This list would be outdated before they even got it published, with new models coming out all the time. The code sets are generic to cover many models with one set.

I personally don't use the code sets, as they very seldon have all the buttons you need or don't work right for what your have. I think it is much easier to make your own IR page with a button on it for every button on the OEM remote and learn the IR's into each button and then use a link for wherever you need them in your layout.

I just found out a really good reason to use as many of the codes in a codeset as you can. It turns out that if you change a device -- I went from a Motorola DCT 2000 to a Dish 6000 -- it turns out that if you change the default codeset for a device PENG will remap all of the codes that it can to the new device. This made reprogramming my Cable device to a new DBS/TV device easy as pie. I changed the default device and relearned all of the learned IR codes, everything else was changed appropriately. Cool.

--John

John,
I guess I do not follow what you are saying...
If you are using links to learned IR codes on a page then everything will flow through the PCF appropriately with or without using a codeset whenever your change one of the IRcodes.

Yes, but if you use the library and change a device say, for some reason you upgrade your VCR to a DVHS model, then *all* of the codes in for the old device will be remapped to the new device. You only have to patch up the learned codes. This was so cool (and so unexpected -- it worked correctly in a way I had not envisoned) that I really had to tell people about it.

My example worked like this: I changed my cable box device from Motorola codeset 0837 to SAT/DBS codeset Echostar 1197. When I did this all of the codes which could be mapped from one to the other were changed to the appropriate codes in the new device. Bingo, about an hour of learning was saved. All I had to do was learn the codes which were not included in the new set or which could not be mapped from the old set.

--John

John,
You said you got a Dish 6000.In case you didn't know it there are discrete codes for the power on and off for it and also a factory made work around for the HDTV toggle button (blue light) so you can specify if you want it on or off without having to toggle.

Archer

Ooooh, cool. Are the codes in your PCF? If so I have a copy and will check them out. If not can you post them so that others might benefit too?

--John

I would also like to know how or where I can get those Dish 6000 codes

My Blizzard Version should have the discretes in it. You can get the discrete power on/off codes from the file section under discrete codes in the regular Pronto File section here on Remote Central....

[Link: remotecentral.com]

For the Std-HDTV button to turn on HDTV (blue light on) Press the Std-HDTV button and within 2 seconds press the Page Up button. This will turn the HDTV on if it is in the off state and leave it on if it was already on.

To change to Std, press the Std-HDTV button and withing 2 seconds press the page down button.

Thanks.

I don't need the HD/SD discreet workaround since I only have the HD output set up. However I did find a rather nice feature of the 6000, although it is cleaverly hidden in the manual. If you hit the * button it will toggle through several strech modes. This is cool, but it will automatically go to the last mode you used for an HD signal if you tune in an HD sIgnal. Simlarly it will switch to the last 4:3 mode you used if you tune in an SD signal.

As an example, it you last watched Discovery HD in "normal" mode, the next time you tune to an HD channel it will automatically revert to "normal" mode. If the last time you watched an SD channel you were in "partial zoom" mode, the next time you tune in an SD channel it will go to "partial zoom" mode. The modes available through the "*" key are: normal (16:9 with black bars for a 4:3 picture), stretch (stretch 4:3 to 16:9 with no zoom), partial zoom (stretch with a slight veritcal zoom), zoom (good for black barred 16:9 which is encoded as 4:3) and grey bar (grey bars around a 4:3 image). This works really nicely and removes the neccesity to use your TV set's zoom modes with the SD output of the 6000.

Before I discovered this I was gritting my teeth about the complexity of the macros necessary to combine HD and SD stations on my remote. This useful feature made the macros go away.

--John

John,
On my 6000 if I use the HD output I find that the non HD channels are not quite as good as if I use the SVHS outputs. Plus I'm hard of hearing and I loose the close captioning on the HD output. Hope they fix that someday.

Archer