I have an older TV (JVC-AV-20120) with a Dish brand DTV-PAL ID035 digital converter box attached. (Not a DVR.) The TV stays on channel 3 and is tuned through the DTV-PAL's tuner. The DTV-PAL's remote is RF.

I bought a Harmony 700 remote to control those plus other components. It controls them all except the DTV-PAL. Called Logitech. They said all Dish brand devices can be "changed" to receive the IR signal that the Harmony sends.

I can't find how to do that in the manual nor online, and phone support from Dish does not seem to be available on this product. Does anyone know if it is possible to change it to receive IR signals, and if so, how? Thanks very much.

Welcome to the Forum.

This link from AVS Forum in US has the solution to the problem right at the end. Thanks Google!!, lol.

Oh man! I forgot the link , lol.

[Link: avsforum.com]

Thank you for finding that for me! It worked. In case anyone else needs it here, the procedure is:

go to the Harmony set up page (at the web based set-up page...NOT the
software set-up. Go to http://members.harmonyremote.com/ and login.

On the Device side of the page, click "more options" under the receiver you
want to control, change to remote code to match.

Choose Learn Infrared, select "Custom" and then learn all commands in "raw" form.

It will then DL a small program to allow you to point at the bottom of the
Harmony with your DTVPal remote. Go through all the commands with the old remote pointed at the Harmony. It will then recognize that you have a new remote. On the same web page, look for prompts like "Next" at the bottom of the page (I almost missed these) and then click update remote. This was all on the web page and I never found this exact thing in the downloaded original Logitech software.

Your welcome. Glad we could help. Enjoy.