I am having a hard time getting my Pronto to learn my Seleco projector's remote.

Although the Pronto reads the IR signal from my projectors remote... when using the Pronto, it only seems control the projector successfully about 30% of the time.

Anybody offer any help with this?

Leon.

I am not sure I follow exactly what you mean by it doesn't work 30% of the time. If you mean that a particular button does not seem to actually control your projector 30% of the time, then I don't know what to tell you, but if you mean that 30% of the time the pronto doesn't seem to learn the button you are teaching it, I do have a suggestion.

When I was teaching the Pronto my Yamaha reciever's remote codes, I thought everything worked fine. When I went to use the pronto, about 1/2 of the codes had not actually been learned. I was a little confused at first, but I figured out what my problem was. The way I was teaching the pronto was not correct. What I would do is press and hold the Yamaha remote's button and then start the learning on the Pronto. The pronto would learn something, but not the IR signal I was shooting for. I found that if I got the pronto into learning mode, and THEN hit the button (Just press it, not a press and hold) that it would learn it correctly every time. That is actually how the manual said to do it, but I only read it once and the other way seemed to work for most buttons... :) After I got into the swing of things, that way turned out to be faster anyway.

Hope that helps,

Will

Leon,

My best guess is one of two things:

Will explains correctly the way IR codes are learned. An IR code has a "start" portion, a data portion, and an "end" portion. Starting the learning process (opening up the port) before actually sending the code allows Pronto to "get" the whole chunk correctly the first time.

The second point may be signal to noise issue in that if there is stray IR in the room (flourescent being notorious, also natural daylight) coming into the learning port on Pronto, it will of course also learn that string along with your actual code. When it's played back(ie sent) to your equipment, your equipment can't distinguish the signal from teh noise. This usually also creates a major HOG on memory consumption. The moral of the story, teach it in dim light of non flourescent or halogen nature and it should be fine. Also stay away from windows as there may be a lot if stary IR coming in which of course you won't see.
I hope this also helps.
Jack

I have the same problem with my Seleco 120 on different remotes (have ordered my pronto, but has not arrived yet). Some remotes wont learn the Seleco codes at all and on the others (in my case a marantz rc2000) sending out the learned signal only turns on the projector 30% of the time (i have to push the button more than once to get it to work, so I still use the original seleco remote for controlling the projector)- theres something funny to these seleco remotes...

Patrick