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lost remote, need feature, any ideas?
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| Topic: | lost remote, need feature, any ideas? This thread has 16 replies. Displaying posts 1 through 15. |
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| Post 1 made on Saturday June 28, 2003 at 00:48 |
I have a VCR, (model: Mitsubishi HS-u69) with no remote. Ordinarily this wouldn't be an issue, but there's one feature that I'd like to use that is only available (as far as I can tell) via the remote...
The missing feature is to switch the VCR to line-in mode, so that i can send the tv signal, or something else through it.
Does anyone have any ideas on an inexpensive way to solve this problem? Replacement remotes for this model, if they are even gettable, cost upwards of 90 bucks, enough to warrant replacing the damn deck entirely, which seems a shame to do for one missing feature.
Any advice is welcome. Thanks.
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| Post 2 made on Saturday June 28, 2003 at 01:20 |
edmund Elite Member |
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Get yourself a one-for-all or radio shack remote, if the preprogrammed code is missing a function, you can add it via advanced codes, these are three digit codes for individual funtions, like PIP-098,PLAY-234. Here's a list for your vcr; [Link: hifi-remote.com]
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| Post 3 made on Saturday June 28, 2003 at 03:35 |
Ron Aronson Super Member |
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As edmund says, discrete codes are the way to go, but if you don't want to get that involved, get a learning remote, if you don't have one, and go to a store that has Mitsubishi vcr's and learn the input code from one of their remotes
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| OP | Post 4 made on Saturday June 28, 2003 at 04:00 |
Awesome. This is great. I'm a newbie to these remotes and discrete codes. I will buy one tomorrow though and get into it - can I ask, how did you find the device number for my model mitsubishi? I fished around that site you linked to and I just saw pages of tables of numbers .. . and man...is it really all that confusing?
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| Post 5 made on Saturday June 28, 2003 at 04:10 |
edmund Elite Member |
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I knew the code because I've owned mitsubishi vcr's in the past, I wouldn't own any made in last couple years though. At radio shack, the only remotes to accept advanced codes are the 15-2103, (if you can find 2104), 2116, 2117, 2133.
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| OP | Post 6 made on Saturday June 28, 2003 at 04:39 |
Sorry for the newbie questions ....
If not all radioshack remotes do advanced codes, what do those others do? Just IR learning?
Are advanced codes the same thing as discrete codes?
I went to the Device Codes listing and it listed 4 codes for Mitsubishi VCRs: 0067, 0043, 0048, 0061 - did you just do trial and error to find which is the right one?
Thanks for your patience.
Noah
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| Post 7 made on Saturday June 28, 2003 at 05:06 |
edmund Elite Member |
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On 06/28/03 04:39, noahd1 said...
Sorry for the newbie questions ....
If not all radioshack remotes do advanced codes,
what do those others do? Just IR learning? The rest of the radio shack remotes accept preprogrammed codes only. Whatever's mapped is all you get. Are advanced codes the same thing as discrete
codes? Not exactly, some advanced codes are toggle commands, meaning they toggle between on & off, they toggle through video inputs. Where discrete commands do one function, and one function only, ON but not off. OFF but not on. So some advanced codes are discrete, others are toggles. I went to the Device Codes listing and it listed
4 codes for Mitsubishi VCRs: 0067, 0043, 0048,
0061 - did you just do trial and error to find
which is the right one? When it comes to new equipment yeah, but I've been usng one-for-all remotes since the 80's. As for code 0067, that's the JVC vcr code. the other two don't know.
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| Post 8 made on Saturday June 28, 2003 at 10:17 |
Ron Aronson Super Member |
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Use code 0043 for your Mitsubishi vcr. At the bottom of the page, click on the Official UEIC codes link and all the advanced codes will be listed. I currently own two Mitsubishi vcr's, HS-U550 and HS-U650. The discrete code for input is 186. For more info on discrete codes, check out this thread and the thread it refers you to. [Link: remotecentral.com]
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| OP | Post 9 made on Saturday June 28, 2003 at 18:13 |
Today I bought the Radio Shack 15-2103 for 20 bucks, and after some minor trials (sometimes that "magic button" just doesn't light up for some reason) coded a button for my VCR to change the input source. Totally psyched. Thanks guys for your help. I think I'm hooked on these little remotes that I'd previously dismissed.
Now...can I get this thing to control my Tivo too?
Thanks again for your help. Saved me tons of cash too.
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| Post 10 made on Saturday June 28, 2003 at 19:06 |
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The code for Tivo is VCR/0618
Rob
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| OP | Post 11 made on Sunday June 29, 2003 at 00:57 |
Had a post here about a problem with this, but I'm going to move it over to the One For All forums where it makes more sense to be I guess...thanks for your help.
This message was edited by noahd1 on 06/29/03 01:20.
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| Post 12 made on Sunday June 29, 2003 at 01:19 |
edmund Elite Member |
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Sorry, but the 2103 doesn't have a code for the Sony SA tivo, later remotes like the 2116 do, it's VCR0636. The only tivo code in the 2103 is for philips/hughes brands. And that one doesn't accept advanced codes.
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| OP | Post 13 made on Sunday June 29, 2003 at 01:21 |
ah..you're too fast in responding...haha. I edited that post and was going to move it...
Anyhow, thanks. Maybe i should return it and get that One For All Remote that has the Tivo Functionality built in . . .
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| Post 14 made on Sunday June 29, 2003 at 01:30 |
edmund Elite Member |
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The radio shack 2116, $30, is as good as any ofa remote, if not better.
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| OP | Post 15 made on Sunday June 29, 2003 at 01:46 |
Do all the ofa remotes (like the cheapest one I found (URC-6131, $15 bucks on BlueDo) offer advanced/discrete codes?
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