Hello,

I am looking for ways to connect my MX-500 to a PC. My main goals are as follows:

1. Backing up the configuration of the MX-500, just in case

2. Being able to program direct codes that are not available in the original remotes.

So far, I dentify 3 options. I am not sure which one of them is the best. Any advice will be greatly apprecited.

Option 1: connecting the MX-500 to the PC with some cable. It seems to have an 8 pin connector (one pin of the eight is missing) under the battery. I am not sure though if this is a JP1 compatible device or what cable and softwrae I should use.

Question: what cable and software can be used with the MX-500 8 pin connector under the batteries ?

Option 2: Buying a cheap JP1 compatible remote control (e.g. URC-8811), programing the direct code into it using a JP1 cable and then having the MX-500 learning the codes from the cheap remote control. (no backup solution with this option).

Option 3: Using the IRClone-MX hardware and software. This is a proprietery software so I don't know how good it is compared to the free JP1 software and will I be able to use codes that are avaialble to the JP1 community.

Question: how does the IRClone-MX compares with the free JP1 software? Does it allow to add codes that are not preprogrammed in the MX-500? Can I use code published in the JP1 community with the IRClone-MX?

Any help or suggestion will be greatly apprecited.

Thanks,

Zapta

nothing, it is not a JP1 remote. It was tride by some to get it to work but t6hey could not, that is where IR-clone came from


the MX-500 has a clonning feature (you can point one MX-500 to an other and in a few minutes the second remte will have the same config as the first. ). The SW that comes with the IR-clone let's you dl/ul configs to the remote and then manipulate them (move commands.....). There is also some utilities and I think there are a few that can impoport Pronto codes, I don't know if there are any that do JP1->MX-500