Using an RP-6 with T3. For some reason, every emitter blinks or goes off when I send a command to buttons that are addressed to one single port. I can't figure it out... No doubt about it the buttons are assigned. In one example I press power, which is assigned to high out and every emitter blinks. In another example, the receiver is port one, but they are all going off as well.

Any idea what could be causing this? Its really not creating a problem for me, but it's annoying and most of all WHY?

Thanks

IR pass through is on. If you watch carefully, when you issue a command the command gets issued then the IR pass through comes right after. I bet that when you issue a cable or sat command that is routed that emitter blinks twice where the others only blink once.

You can disable it in the RP6 properties. I still have not really figured out what it can be used for, but have seen it mess with a few pieces of equipment so I generally turn it off. Not sure why it is on by default.

Maybe someone can better explain what it is used for.

Your a genious. I think it is used for when you outputting to a IR device like a multiroom flasher device or something... Anyone care to chime in?

AAAudio, thanks for your quick response, this was bugging me to death.

It is used when you have a ir receiver or any other device that can generate ir such as a distributed audio controller connected to the ir in(same place as rm433). This way you don't have to set up and learn trigger codes that can just pass through as if the rp6 was a connecting block.

Thanks. That makes sense and I have not done that. I wonder why is on by default. It seems like this would be uncommon.

So it can provide rudimentary routing? I see in properties you can select any/all ports on the RP6. If I shoot IR at a K3 and have cable box 1 checked in pass through, will it route IR shot at the KP from a cable remote to just that port?

One of the reasons I love the RP-6 so much is because it acts as an IR hub, which is great when you might have 2 or more controllers from different manufacturers. No double emitters.

Also love the ability to trigger the stored macros from any IR learning remote. I called Universal Remote and asked if the MSC-400 could do this and they told me no. That alone kept me away from trying it out.

I understand what this means, but can anyone give me an example of what someone might do? For example, let's say a client has an RTI system in his house, but has a Universal Remote system in his office - how can this feature be utilized? Anyone?

Let the RP-6 act as the master controller then create your macros, generate IR hex codes, copy the hex codes into the Universal Remote hex editor.

If your using an IR Receiver cable it to the RP-6 or repeat IR signal out of the Universal Remote RF base station into the RP-6 IR in.

Simple and clean.

This is exactly what I've heard. What I didn't ask is what is actually in that particular blink. If it blinks because the pass-through is on, okay. Since pass-through is on, if I send a command from some other device into the IR bus, the RP-6 will pass it through, right?

But pass-through is on and no command has been sent, so what is this blink saying? Does the blink have a command or is it just some random blink? Does that mean that if you actually send a command that you'll get that blink after the passed-through command?