USB-Uirt and Brand New Dish Remotes

[bennyhill]

Ok so a little background, I am a long time Sage user and I know my way around this program fairly well. I dropped My Dish subscription for a few months to save some money and now I have gone ahead and signed back up for the service I am having a strange problem.

I cannot get my Usb Uirt to transmit a "0" (zero) Every other number or command works just fine.

Doing a lot of poking around with these receivers I have found that when I press numbers 1 through 9 on the remote the receiver registers the press immediately while when I press zero on the remote the receiver doesn't accept a zero until I release the button.

I am sure this has something to do with the problem but I have no Idea how to fix it.

Any thoughts?

[Fuzzy]

search around here on the forums. I, as well as others, have posted up dish network .ir files in the past.

[davephan]

Did you try using LrnHelper? You can see the codes that the USB-UIRT is receiving with LrnHelper.

Dave

[bennyhill]

I did try lrnhelper, it couldn't record the "0" either. Apparently the new Dish Remotes handle 0's differently. It seems to have more options than just being a 0 key now. I fortunately found some old ir files in an old backup and that did the trick for me, but anyone trying to "teach" the codes from there remote on a new setup are going to have some serious trouble.

Thanks for trying though.

-Ben

(the new remotes from dish have a black back and black border around the front instead of being all silver FYI)

[andyvr4]

I got around this problem with my dish boxes by first recording the zero key into my universal learning remote (made by one-for-all) which was much more forgiving about a short signal blast and then learning the code on the usb-uirt off the learning remote.

[Savage1701]

I used a utility from Shadeblue's STB Keep Alive service to learn the "0" which I was having trouble with. I then copied it into the appropriate IR file.

Also, I was told the usual - keep the remote on a level horizontal plane with the receiver, try a couple different distances since some remotes blast so strong they overload the receiver, others need to be a few inches away, and the usual, don't have fluorescent lights on while learning codes.

I have a Dish 211 Solo HD if you want the "0" code for it.

Let me know.

I think I also had a little trouble with the "enter" code as well. Mine have worked fine for about 6 months now.