I have a home theater set up with PCS lighting. I've set up the light switches to change to a scene via X-10, but I have no way of telling the switches to go to that scene with my existing Denon RC-8000 remote. The switches are on house code B. Since the Denon is a learning remote, is there any way I can change the house code on my Radio Shack 15-1994 remote to recognize house code B and then use that to teach the Denon?

I will use an IR543 to receive the X-10 commands.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Easier ways also greatly appreciated. If there were some way to directly send the X-10 commands via the RF capability of the Denon, it would be great, but I see no way of doing it.

if memory serves me right, the house code is generated from the ir543, not the remote. the remote sends the unit # and then the command (on,off,dim,birght).

Equium is right, UNLESS you get an IR543AH (All Housecodes) and a remote that can send the "special" commands to select the house code. Are you using more then one HouseCode? If not just 'spin' the little knob.
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Thanks for the prompt reply.

All of the switches in my house have been set to a "D" housecode. I'm using a different set of housecodes to set up scenes with the PCS switches. Although there will be only one housecode in the home theater, it won't be the default "A" code. Therefore I have to be able to set or change the remote to a unique housecode.

steve, if your ir543 is only going to be located in your HT, and you will only have one remote in your HT, then i think you should be fine. like ONEAC said, spin the wheel
to the desired housecode and your off. if this is not the case, then the only other option (i think) is the HAN01 or the OCELOT. what do you think ONEAC?

Thanks again. I understand that I can set the IR543 to a different housecode, but how do I set the remote to the same housecode as the IR controller. What I've read on the forums seem to indicate that the IR remotes that control X-10 devices are pre-set to the "A" housecode.

As stated above your remote sends out only unit codes. You can not do anything to set it to a different house code unless you have the IR543AH. To send different house codes the only way to do it is change the wheel on the IR543. Therefore if you have 2 IR543's sitting on the same table, one set to "A" and one set to "B" and then you send a 1 on from your remote, one IR543 will send out "1A On" and the other "1B ON", they would both do it at the same time so it probably would collide and not work. The IR543AH actually works like getting up turning the dial on the IR543 via IR. To use the AH you must have a PC programmable remote to learn the house code IR commands.

Bill
www.homeautomationnet.com

If you need more control, I'd say go with the Ocelot-HomeSeer combo. (Ocelot for IR inputs, WATCHDOG, blind control, etc. and an TM751 Transceiver for x10) But then that's what I use.

You can use 2 IR543's but only if they are located in different rooms and will NEVER see each others inputs. Otherwise things can get ugly.