Hello--
I just got an RCU807 8-remote universal remote, and it's great-- except for one strange problem when I try to teach it the menu buttons for my HP media center remote. Here's what happens:

The HP has four directions buttons to maneuver around the menus. The RCU can learn those buttons fine, and they work--but only once. So, I can step down, up, left, or right just one increment, but I can't go down an entire list.

I'm kind of stuck with this--clearly, the RCU learned the button properly, but it won't execute it twice in a row? I'm at a loss. Any help would be much appreciated.

Many Windows MCE PCs use the Philips RC6 IR command format. Unfortunately, RC6 includes what is generally referred to as a "toggle bit" -- a value embedded in the IR command which flips back and forth every time a key is pressed. Though largely obsolete in modern IR codes, for some reason Philips has stuck with this concept. In any event, this is problematic for a lot of learner remotes since by their nature they are designed to send the same thing every time. The symptom is exactly as you describe.

Your alternatives are to find a universal remote which supports toggle bits, or supposedly -- and I say supposedly, because I have never seen it, just heard of it -- there is a registry setting in Windows MCE which can be modified to make it ignore the toggle bit.

I know others have faced the same problem, so I suggest your next step should be to search "toggle bit" in this forum and/or over in the JP1 forum at www.hifi-remote.com.