All,

I started hooking up my bedroom equipment tonight and wanted to pass this tidbit along. I have an MP-200 (DVDM-100 with no direct changer connection) and wanted to use the Wired-IR-In and connect it to my RFX-9400.

Here's what I found. Very interesting.

All functions from the Escient Remote (non-keyboard) work just fine. Any button learned from the keyboard (the IR codes came from Escient website for Fireball Codeset 1) do not work when connected via the mono cable. However, if I plug an IR emitter into the RFX-9400, everything works just fine. I've tried both low and normal power settings and neither works.

My first assumption was unclean code or need longer duration. Neither approach worked. End result, hang an emitter off the front of the unit.

For the courageous or those who simply hate stick-on emitters on the front of equipment, you can also open up the unit and pop the front plate then stick the emitter inside and run the wire out. Note that there's an opening in the inside front plate where a normal CD ROM drives sits so the only difficulty you might have is finding a hole in the back to run the emitter cable out of for connection to the RF Extender.

Ugh. I've been having the same trouble with my RFX9600/MX-111 with no resolution in sight. Escient tech support assures me that the wired/serial IR in should work exactly the same as glomming an emitter to the front-panel sensor but I can't make it work. Thanks for the idea of placing the emitter inside the unit though; I never would have thought of this myself.

Tried several approaches and none of them worked. The ONLY solution was the stick-on emitter or placing an emitter inside the unit and hanging a wire out the back.

We have a SE160 here at work so I will give it a go with RTI T3 and a RP6 direct plugged into back when I get time (hopefully Wednesday).

I just posted this information in another post, but I just got off the phone with Tony from Escient tech support and he suggested reversing the polarity of the IR cable. He said he's seen similar problems with Escient and Elan systems and that cutting the IR cable and reversing the leads solves the problem. I'll give it a try and let everybody know if it works. HTH.

Note that ALL signals off the Escient Remote work just fine as-is. It is the keyboard that does not work. If this works, I'll be very surprised as I would have expected all codes to fail if the polarity was incorrect.

Lyndel

Interesting. I can't get my RFX9600 to send ANY commands correctly through serial IR, although as in your case they work fine using the IR emitters on the front of the box. Any ideas?

Just to be crystal clear.

I'm not using the RS-232 port. I have a mono cable connected between an IR emitter port off the back of the RFX9400 and the Escient. I have not tried this with the RFX9600 as of yet.

I've had this issue with IR in jack using Elan touchpanels. Only the emitter on the front worked. I don't use Escient very often, but this happened with 2 of the media managers (DVDM100 or something- can't remember exact model number).

The MP-200 where I experience the problem is basically a stripped down DVDM-100.