I do have a lot of questions --
logger, we will need a lot more info to help you.
What type of files do you use?
What do you want to control?
What Xantec stuff did you use back in the day?
Is it only for single commands or you will need to do macros?
Give us a lot more info on your project and the gear you are using.
Once we have this, then we might be able to help you.
That was pretty easy for me to write!
Moving on:
On August 9, 2012 at 19:12, logger said...
Thanks for answering. This should be simple.
Sorry, but you're wrong about that.
Search for the Teac AH 500 files. That kind.
What do you mean "That kind"? Name the kind.
They're here.
Where? Give us a URL. Or give us the remote that these files were for at the time. Or search in the Files section -- there's a way to search all the files for particular product, so you'll find it no matter what programmable remote the file is for.
I uploaded them 10 years ago.
Hmmm. You probably mean downloaded. Downloaded from this site to your computer; further downloaded them to a remote or more than one remote.
I'd just like a simple device I can load these into.
We don't know what "these" are, what brand and model of remote they are made for... this is where you were wrong that it should be simple. Too much information is missing for it to be simple; and if the file(s) are for obsolete remotes, that also complicates thing.
If not do-able I'll plan ahead and get something programmable via PC so I can incorporate discrete codes for Sony TV and some macros. This is for occasional use and don't want to get real fancy, but will if that's the only way to get these codes into something. This is just a stereo, DirectTV receiver and a Sony TV, but I am building a more serious Hi Fi with music server, Blue Ray, Sat receiver in another room so can I now use one handheld for both systems (they will never be used simultaneously and are in semi adjoining rooms)
You just said you want a simple remote now but you want it to be complicated later. sorry, but you have to buy a remote capable of being complicated NOW if it ever will be.
Note that you said it's for occasional use; not only will you be buying just one of these remotes, but you won't even use it all the time. Now consider that to program a complicated remote, you need to learn how to work a complicated program. That probably means factory training or calling the factory to ask them questions as you conquer the software. Now... hold on... the remote control companies can afford to answer questions for installers who will apply those answers, say, to fifty remotes. But there is no way they could allow individuals to buy these remotes, then have to answer fifty times as many questions!
Thus, the remote you're looking for will have controlled distribution and controlled software. Either that, or you can buy a Harmony remote, which most installers won't touch because you can't just program them and have them always work -- the programmer has to keep futzing with them to make them work again. Hobbyists can do that, but installers can't.
And oh, yeah, it'll take a pro installer, probably, to make whatever file used to control your system work again.
And if you have systems in two rooms and one remote, you'll find yourself always leaving the remote in one of the rooms, rarely carrying it with you at the right time.
Last edited by Ernie Gilman on August 10, 2012 02:51.
