[mythtv-users] OT: Programming a universal remote with an IR keyboard

[Clay Boeschen]

Hey everyone.  I figured this might be a good place to ask about this, 
since so many people have experience with so many different kinds of 
remotes.

I won a cheap CompUSA IR keyboard on eBay (as in the price was cheap, 
$5.50 -- the keyboard seems to work just fine) and want to program a 
few of the keys into my universal remote.  This remote came with my 
Onkyo TX SR-600, so it is Onkyo branded.  It is a "learning" remote and 
I have taught it numerous other commands from other remotes over the 
past year.  If it is any help, the remote seems to be model RC-480M.

The keyboard works beautifully with my Myth machine.  I plugged it in 
and it just worked, absolutely no problems or quirks.  Since it worked 
so perfectly, I figured it was time to program some of the key commands 
into my universal IR remote.  Here is where the problems come in.  The 
following keys from the keyboard can be mapped to any button on my 
universal remote: 1, F1, Fn, PauseBreak, I.  Those keys always work, no 
matter what button on the universal remote I program them to.  They 
also work with the Myth machine and the keyboard's IR receiver.  There 
might be more but I haven't found them yet.  Just about every single 
other key on the keyboard cannot be programmed into my universal remote 
-- it seems to reject them.

My question is: does anyone have any idea what's going on?  Why won't 
the other keys work, while those other five DO work?  The keyboard 
model is SK-7500.

Thanks so much for any help!