one of our most creative customers came in today with a homemade jig that holds the T2 at the proper angle for programing. so with his permission here it is:
(if we only had a digital camera in the shop today....)
as you know, more often than not, the T2 has to be held, head down, tail up, over the orig remote. so this jig holds that angle, freeing your hands to both hold the orig remote steady and press the buttons. picture 2 strips of plywood, joined at one end with a common hindge. now picture if you used the two strips like the jaws of dog. in between the two is placed a scrap of 2x4 lumber. if the lumber is moved twords the hindge, the angle increases. a large rubber band is wraped around the open end of the strips to put the needed pressure on the 2x4 so it stays put. finally, a smaller rubber band holds the T2 to the top strip. i know this is a poor description, but you cant believe how great this simple jig works!

another trick we have learned is that if you remove the red plastic lense cover from difficult remotes (dont let your customers see you take their remote apart!) it lets a stronger signal come thru and you can see where the ir emitter is inside.

finally, we are starting to build a collection of remote codes from our customers, of brands we dont carry in house. some of them this week are:

Aragon 28K preamp
Kenwood 309 av reciever
Kenwood cd-324m and dpf-j5020 200 disk changer
sony 1292 projector
Philips HD_8000 HDTV
Hauppauge win-tv pci

well keep asking our customers to give us more, but if you need any of the above, or any brands we do carry, we could email them to you.

thanks
OC

Home Theater Creations

I'm sorry, but all of this seems crazy on this expensive of a remote!!! I wish that RTI would correct this. I will not be purchasing one until I see higher quality. Tony

After my learning problems from the Sony RM-AV2000, I took a look at the IR emitters through a digital camera (CCDs can see infrared). Turns out there's four emitters, two on each side of the remote. So, technically, the remote is "dead" in the very center. However, what gets me is every other remote I've used had no problem learning from it. It seems to me that the T2 has a very "insensitive" IR learning diode, perhaps designed to reduce background noise.