Re: No more X10 at Radio Shack?

[Mike <diespam@xxxxxxx>]

Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>Ours still flashes 12:00 after an outage. X10 let us down here: We
>bought the X10 universal remote and on the picture it had a "Menu"
>button in the lower left. When I unpacked it I discovered that it had a
>"Guide" button in that space and no menu button. Hence we cannot program
>the clock or anything else at all except by unplugging again and holding
>some magic buttons on the VCR itself. Its original remote had died.
>
>Tried dozens of VCR codes in the booklet and none turns that useless
>guide button into menu mode :-(

Take a learning remote programmed to your VCR to a store that sells
VCRs made by the same manufacturer as your old one. Get permission to
see if the new ones respond to your remote. If they do then teach your
remote the Menu function from their remote.

-Mike