RE: Pronto remote with MCE

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have done some more searching and I have tracked down a solution to
this
> problem. Apparently its a problem with all learning remotes...
>
> "Turns out that the Media Center remote has two sets of codes
that
> alternate
> with each button press (apparently using a bit flipping technique).
This
> method is used so that a single key press isn't accidentally received
> twice
> by the computer and is referred to as debounce."

It's not a problem with all universal remotes...

Quite a few devices use alternate codes for single keypresses and usually
the Prontos do handle this OK. My Thomson Freeview PVR definitely does this
and the RU890 / 940 / 970 / 950 and 980 all handled that - the iPronto
didn't at first but that was fixed with a firmware update.

There is another workaround to this (which is how I did it initially with
my
iPronto whilst I waited for a firmware fix) which was to grab both sets of
IR codes ... then just make the Pronto switch between two visually
identical
pages of buttons alternately.

> To overcome this and switch off debounce you need to do a registry
hack, I
> have tried it and it works great!.... Full details here on Michael
> Swanson's
> blog:-
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2004/12/01/272766.aspx

That's handy that it's registry hackable ...

... I must do that to get more than two tuners in mine!

Phil