[mythtv-users] Verizon Fios QIP7100 2 occasionally turns itself off, 6200ch always thinks it's on

[Joseph Fry]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016, 10:29 AM Will Dormann <wdormann at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/30/16 11:27 AM, Joseph Fry wrote:
> > The next thing I was going to suggest is to experiment with remote codes
> > that were not pulled from your remote... often times the STB will
> > respond to codes that may not have a corresponding button on the
> > remote.  I know a lot of Sony devices used to have a "power on" code in
> > addition to the "power toggle" code.  It wasn't on the remote, but it
> > was available for system integration purposes.
>
> Could be.  I simply tried all of the buttons on my remote.  But how does
> one send arbitrary remote codes (via firewire via 6200ch)?   And how
> would I determine the available codes?  Brute force?
>

I must admit, I know nothing about 6200ch.  I use lirc and IR to control my
STBs.

With lirc, a quick review of the lircrc file will often reveal a pattern,
and you can use the pattern to identify codes for buttons that aren't on
the remote.

Imagine looking at an incomplete hex table for ASCII characters... pretty
easy to spot the missing char (you see hex 0x50, 0x52, & 0x53, your not
going to be too surprised to find that hex 0x51 has a value too (it's Q).
Lots of remotes use sequential hex values or similar patterns... so you
just assign all the missing ones, and do an irsend and see what happens.

But again, not sure if that's possible with FireWire.
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