?how to convert pronto neo IR codes
Well, as no-one has been able to help me with codes for the austar flinders box, I decided to go the long way around.
My tivo couldn't capture useable codes so I ordered a philips pronto from the USA and captured the codes that way. The Neo works just fine, controlling my STB. I dowloaded the codes to my pc to work on them and......
I discovered that my pronto NEO does not generate ccf files, it generates ncf files. These are not compatible with the ccf decompiler programs which are the usual way of extracting codes, nor does the neo software allow access to the codes themselves.
After a bit of poking around, I found some neo hacking software and have extracted codes in the following format:
digit 1: 0 f 6c 65 a8 6 a 16 10 f 1c 3f 6f bc 76 84 44 38 12 21 c2 4 c3 f0 d
each code is in hex like the above. Also I don't see a frequency indicator, but I'm prepared to fiddle about to find that, manually.
Does anyone have an idea how to process these codes for the tivo? It'll save me sending off to the US for a more recent tivo! Thanks.
NetMedic.
You've just exceeded the processing capacity....
Of my brain.....!
Sorry T1voZA
First off, I tried to use the tivo to learn the codes using it's IR sensor, along with some very ragged beta linux software, and I soon learned that holding the button down on the remote sending the code to the tivo was definitely a bad idea....
So when I used the pronto, I naturally tried to send quick individual codes to it with short taps of the button on the "sending" remote. The pronto would have none of this and I had to hold the key down on the "sending" remote to get the pronto to capture the code. If I tried to be too snappy with the button I got an error on the "receiving" pronto. All this was in a fairly dark closet (which attracted the attention of my wife but you don't need to know more about that of course! :) )
Thanks for the link to the .za page. I will have a bash with it and let you know how I get on. I generally have noscript enabled in my firefox browser so when I first looked the page made absolutely no sense at all. Scripts can be evil things and I like to keep control of them.
Thanks for your continued help with this...
Chris
I had a go with the converter: starting with my digit 0 "invalid pronto code entered, sequence length is incorrect"
I had entered:
0 54 0 18 22 15 9 15 9 33 9 15 9 15 9 42 9 33 9 15 9 15 9 33 9 33 9 24 9 33 9 15 9 15 9 15 9 15 9 4866
into digit 0 box.
and of course the resulting tivo script file
"" setIr $tivoir "Dig0" "null" ""
not very helpful!
Hmm.... now what do I do?
Please, as you know how to use the converter and my files are here for you to see, could you let me know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.
Please excuse my frustration. I've been at this IR codes issue for weeks.....
Thanks but no net connection
Hi T1voZA.
Just to thank you for all your help. I'm going to try your suggestions tomorrow.
Unfortunately, my tivo is not connected to a network. I can't get a cable to it where it is in the living room. I do have a turbonzet card but even if I fit it, I would have to move the tivo from the living room to my office where the network is, and there's no way of testing the IR blaster from there when the STB is in the living room. Hence I'm doing all my editing and uploading via the tivo's serial port and use zmodem which mostly works ok. This way I can keep the tivo close the the stb and test the ir blaster. I keep my notebook near the tivo and run backwards and forwards to it with the files on a thumb drive. I get my guide data via the modem dial up system as there is a phone line near the tivo in the living room. And my guide data arrives very nicely every day as it should.
However, you will deduce from all this that I can't elegantly call the tivo box via tivoweb and operate it remotely. I'm doing some real hacking!
Despite all this, I think I can suss out a way of getting the files you suggest, into the box. It'll take a bit of time and effort though!
I'll let you know how I get on.
Thanks for your help.
Chris.
Codes captured correctly, conversion faulty.
Hi again.
I've tried using irlock, and every permutation of irconvert codes. None of the codes I have captured work.
I found that the austar atlas code "dig1", as listed in the oztivo IR database, successfully sends a code "4" to the stb via the ir blaster. This is reliable, even using the irlock method.
Hence the frequency is 55, but the codes from my pronto neo (which I've captured repeatedly with consistent results) are not being converted correctly to tivo codes using the combination of neohacker, marantz software, and IRconvert. The neo controls the stb just fine, so it looks like the conversion system is faulty.
Any suggestions?
Do I have to obtain a more recent pronto, and capture the codes that way??
Is there a util to directly convert neo codes to pronto?
Chris.
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What I have attempted to test out
I have taken the IR2 codes from your last post and cut and pasted them into the following TCL file and tested.
Now I definetely don't know what I'm doing and take my hat off to all those with this outstanding technical knowledge, BUT I'm trying to help as much as I can.
I loaded the following file in and ran the Tivosh routine etc. Put the tivo into guided setup mode, changed the sat box to Austar Oztivo, selected 30071 and tested a channel, tivo did not pop up the bo saying what channel its attempting to change to, nor did it appear to send any IR. just hung for 3 seconds then rebooted itself.
Again, trying to help, hope it does
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ir codes collected by tivo
Hi there
I've collected codes successfully using the tivo and "irSliceCreator".
I couldn't get them to work, but they are another basis for experimentation and discussion.
It's really interesting using irSliceCreator. You have to capture one code at a time, then exit the program and kill any IR processes, or else the blooming thing hangs.
Well at least we have a few more codes now to play with.
Looking at them, it's interesting that the the 3rd and 4th code pairs (which follow 0 55) seem to be transposed for all the digit codes, when compared to other austar codes.
I think I'll order a fully fledged pronto from the US, as playing with neo codes doesn't seem to work!
Chris
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Pronto conversion problems
The Pronto arrived. I captured working codes, translated them to tivo format and.... they don't work. On the pronto they work every time.
Something wrong with the translation algorithm. The tivo is transmitting the signals correctly because I can see the STB responding to it occasionally with seemingly random responses of 1 or 2 to the digit 1 code.
I'm going to play with other algorithms and see how I get on.
However, now I have the pronto, I can set up the timer on it and get it to do the channel changing thing itself. Not as convenient though.
Chris