I'll try to explain this a little more clearly. I have a unit that operates with RF. I do understand the Pronto Pro cannot control this unit but am curious to know if the following is possible. With my limited knowledge on how these frequencies work, the following procedure seems to hold up since the RF extender and the Pronto must use the same conversion from IR-RF & RF-IR. If I use my original RF remote and send a signal to the RF extender, it should then convert the signal to IR. I then place the Pronto in front of the RF extender's IR eye and try to learn the converted IR code, then I set the Pronto to transmit this learned IR code in RF, wouldn't it then come out identical to the RF signal sent from the original remote or is my thinking to simple? I don't have the RF extender to try this with.

I don't think any other remote can send the proper RF code to the RFX-6000 RF Extender. Well, I'm sure it can be done, but not without modification to the RF-sending remote.

Randy
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no it is not possible (but you can always try it).
1) can use different radio frequency
2) sequence will probably not be understood

Anthony...

Thank you for clearing up the mis-information left above by Randy.

"no it is not possible (but you can always try it)."

Is that on the order of the difficult we do right away, but the impossible takes a little longer?

-Bruce
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This message was edited by alpha2data on 02/05/02 17:06.24.

I believe it's called:S.N.A.F.U.MIKE    

Well look at the pyramids, they can receive Pronto RF and change it to IR. On the other hand someone tried to do the opposite (Pronto base receives RF from pyramid and sends out IR) and he said it does not work.

Its like lottery tickets, the possibility that you will win is almost zero, but then again someone eventually wins the jackpot :-)

Can two manufactures be buying the same receiver RF receiver/emitter? yes as evidence from the pyramids
Is it likely? no
Can the same emitter receiver set create codes that cannot function together? Yes (as evidence when you change any of the IDs on the Pro)

On the other hand, A lot of people feal better when they try things for themselves, I just wanted to make sure he was not getting his hopes up

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Yep - it was me!!! I tested the opposite (the Pyramids trying to control the RF Extender) and you are correct, it does NOT work unfortunately.... Oh well!!!!

SNAFU'd

I guess the outcome of this is that it won't work - right? I must admit that I don't know what this pryramid stuff is and without understanding the exact make-up of these frequencies, I still don't actually understand why this won't work. Is an RF signal sent out by a remote control a pure single frequency or a group of frequencies like a key? If the signal is pure then the RF extender should have it's own convertion method to translate it into IR. We know the pronto can learn IR and the IR-RF convertor in the Pronto must use the same method as the RF-IR convertor in the RF extender. I understand now this won't work but I guess I need to know why. Time for some research!! Thanks guys.

Daryl

Presumably, the RF Extender will only be listening for a particular RF carrier frequency, and then only a particular encoding scheme using that carrier. Anything else would be ignored.

This message was edited by Peter Dewildt on 02/07/02 17:10.24.

I never thought of it that way. It actually makes perfect sense.