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🎭Entertainment => Entertainment General => Nstinct Remote => Topic started by: wauters on November 14, 2010, 05:30:43 PM
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) I just received my nstinct remote. I have gone thru the setup. All my components worked fine during setup. I setup a few favorites. now setup is finished and the only thing I can get it to do is work with the favorites I setup. I can't power anything or change channels. I have tried changing modes and still nothing works. Anyone have any ideas?
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@wauters:
Try running the Setup again and see if the codes you've got are correct.
Even though the first code works, you may want to try the second, or even the third alternative. The other option is to use the "Learn" function with your existing remotes.
Afterwards, the operation is fairly straightforward:
When you press "Home" and then hit "QuickPower", you'll be able to use the buttons at the sides of the screen to turn things on or off.
When you press "Mode", it will allow you to select a device to control, like your TV, DVD Player, Blu-Ray Player, Cable, or Satellite Box.
For Setup, see Page 10 of the Owner's Manual. For Learning, see Page 25. For operation, see Page 22. A copy is available here: ftp://ftp.x10.com/pub/manuals/IR34A%20OM.pdf
Let us know how it goes!
:)
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I'm thinking you did what I did the first time and you didn't save your selections properly go through one of your components again and MAKE SURE you save them correctly and that what you're trying to control is at the bottom of the Icon display, let us know how it turns out.
Tom j.
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I have done setup 3 times now. I check under setup-advanced-device codes and saved codes do show up. The funny thing is that my DVR favorites change channels just fine, but if I enter channel 182 under DVR mode nothing happens. I see on the bottom of the remote by DVR that some arrows show up like the remote is sending something, but nothing happens. When I am in setup, I select my device, DVR, then select Dish Network, then press power until it turns off, then the next screen says test your remote. I can change channels, pause, forward, reverse, power on/off. Then I continue on and program other devices, then do favorites. then back to square one, favorites work, but nothing else.
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...DVR, then select Dish Network...
1) What model DVR do you have?
2) What colour are the arrows you see when you press a button? Are they red or green?
3) Does the original DVR remote say "UHF" or "UHF Pro" anywhere on it?
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I appreciate the help here. I am very tech savvy and know what I am doing. All the codes I am using are for IR remotes, TV, Dish DVR, and DVD player. I can't control any one of them after setup, except the Dish DVR favorites that I setup. Pressing mode to control the TV does absolutly nothing, and neither does the DVD player. No channel changing, no power, nothing. While doing the guided setup everyone of the remotes was testing fine, channel changing, power, etc. Only after setup was complete the only thing working is favorites and they do change the channel on the Dish DVR.
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@wauters:
May want to talk to Tech Support then. Possibly get the Nstinct swapped out.
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I got a problem to maybe you guys can give me your thoughts seems like I have to sometimes give multiple presses to get a response I have a Harmony and yes I know it's not a Harmony but you just have to lightly tap a button with the Nstinct it takes more of a deliberate press. Even when the little icon at the bottom of the screen shows a signal has or is being sent it still requires a second press I would really like the unit if not for this also wish the keys didn't creek but I guess at the price it's a good deal that is if it didn't require multiple presses. Thanks!
Tom j.
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My brother and I both bought a remote and for some reason neither of us can get to manage any of our devices? None of the standard codes work nor does the scanning help. I'm not sure if it is because we use 220v equipment being from South Africa or what? This is seriuosly frustrating and making the remotes useless.
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No US electric device will work on 220 volts, our electricity is 110 volts.
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:) I'm aware of that. We use the same devices (mostly) except it is the 220v version. My concern is that it may have other codes than the 110v equivelant - else why does it not work?
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Right. Three 'AA' batteries are not unique to the US. ;D
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:) I'm aware of that. We use the same devices (mostly) except it is the 220v version. My concern is that it may have other codes than the 110v equivelant - else why does it not work?
IMHO
It does not make sense that a manfacturer would use one set of IR codes for 120V TV, DVR, DVD, etc and another set of IR codes for thier 220V models. It would create an inventory nightmare. Besides if you look at X10 manfacturer IR code matrix, there is no differentiation for 220V equipment.
Maybe you simply have a bad remote(?).
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No US electric device will work on 220 volts, our electricity is 110 volts.
What does that have to do with this thread?
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FWIW:
Most of the high end audio equipment I own runs both voltages. There's a selector switch on the back. (yes, my amps have remote controls)
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FWIW:
Most of the high end audio equipment I own runs both voltages. There's a selector switch on the back. (yes, my amps have remote controls)
Good point, and this is common for commercial equipment. Certainly buttresses the idea that there is no differentiation between 120V and 220V IR codes. Knight can you use your Icon to control your amps?
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Only all the time! I carry the ICON with me most of the time (even to bed), much to the chagrin of Mrs. Knight.
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I shouldn't have asked.
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... I carry the ICON with me most of the time (even to bed), much to the chagrin of Mrs. Knight.
Power went out last night. No flashlight in range. Thank heaven for a bright Nstinct backlit screen! :)%
>!
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I'm starting to think I may have bought a dud, but on the other hand what are the chances of both my brother and I getting faulty remotes?
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not sure if this is where i should post this or not. I also have the remote. I have been using it for about a month now. I do like most of the features, but there is a problem i have noticed. I seems to have a limited range on IR sending, or you have to have the angle just right for it to work, yet the original remotes work even by bouncing the IR off a wall. So then it was time to investigate. I use the camera in my cellphone to see IR light. Just aim the remote at the camera of the cellphone with it active and press the button on the remote. You will see the light blink or light up. So i did this with the original and the nstinct. I noticed that the original was much brighter of a light. So now it was time to open the nstinct and see its insides. Upon opening i noticed that the L.E.D's for signal are the blueish colored ones, and the original is the clear lens ones. So I had a nightvision camera that was broke just laying around in the parts bucket. I removed 2 of the IR LED's from the camera and replaced the blue LED's with the clear camera ones. Then checked with the cellphone again and now they were really bright like the original. I reassembled the remote and presto: I now get great response from the remote, even bouncing the IR off a wall.
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Wohoo!
Yet another story of consumers making X10 products more usable. :'
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Hi Tom J,
I MAY have an answer for you. I had a similar problem when I bought my Icon a couple of years ago.
After using it for some time I was seeing the same type of problem, but after watching what it was doing for awhile I realized (in my case) it was only doing this for keys that I had "taught" it. This gave me an idea.
I am a big person with big hands and a lot of those original remotes that I had programed from had small keys.
When I had done the original programing I was careful to make sure that I did a good keypress for the Icon to learn. I think now it was too good. I reprogrammed all the learned keys with much quicker presses on the originals and the problem went away.
I think I was holding the keys down too long and the Icon was interpreting this as some kind of a two part keypress. This is only guesswork on my part, but the re-programing did work and now that I have an Nstinct I have been careful to use quick keypresses for programing it as well.
Hope this helps,
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thanks for that response, it is something i will check and see if it helps. I have had a good response from the replaced LED's. The other thing i did think of was that maybe there is some sort of delay after selecting which device you want. If you learned say 20 buttons for the TV functions, and then you were on dvd, and decide to switch to TV, I was thinking that there was a delay before all the buttons would actually function. Of course i dont know the first thing about the programming of this remote, so who knows.
All I know is the new LED's did help me a lot. Havent had any problems since, so I doubt there is a delay.