Long time lurker here but first time poster.

I have a very interesting situation here that at this point, that I cannot solve on my own, so I am looking for s solid advice.

I am on 5th Harmony now and on 3rd Dish 811 receiver. Here is what happening.

I am having a hardest getting any of the Harmony's to control my Dish 811. This is really puzzling since I tried 1 688, 3 880 and 1 720 and they all have the same problem - they control only from your certain angle or only when reflected from the floor. Interestingly, they all control if you quickly press the same button twice, but single press is randomly changes anything at best. I have tried changing repeats 0-5 (Logitech Level 2 Support even tried 7 for me), changed delays between device, keypresses, powerup. Tought in Raw via 811's blaster, also did confirm languages, changed infrared languages manually. It gets a little bit better but never gets consistent.

Repalced Dish 811 twice and, "Yes" I have it set to channel 1. UHF remote from Dish works like a champ, it is Harmony's that cannot do it well.

I am totally stomped at this point, not sure where to go from here. One thing that I know is consistent that if I press anyh button for 811 twice fast I get that to execute. I searched all forums but nobody seems to have that problem.

Very curious in your ideas and suggestions. This question is for the persistent folks. I am not giving up.

BTW, all Harmonies control my LCD and DVD just fine.

Dima.
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Dima,

Harmony says only their 890 model is uhf enabled and dish says that in order for their infrared detector to control the receiver you have to disconnect the uhf antenna on the back of the receiver.

That's all I can think of for the problem.

Hal

But the 890 RF and the dish RF are totally different and have nothing to do with each other. This is an IR problem.

Sounds like the Dish IR receiver is fickle. The 659 has 3 IR emitters and might fix the problem but that's a shot in the dark. The other solution is an IR repeater with bug emitters directly attached to the 811. But of course you shouldn't have to do that.

This might be a long shot, but I think I've heard of some equipment having IR receivers that are TOO sensitive. ie the Harmony signal is stronger than the original remote's and the device can't cope.

I think some people have fixed this by placing 1 or 2 strips of scotch tape over the IR receiver on the device...might be worth a try at least.

I know you said you tried to learn the code in RAW Did you try to learn it in RAW with a quick double button press?