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tonyd79
01-15-07, 08:04 PM
Don't know if this has been mentioned as a workaround so I'm posting what I discovered today.

I am using a learning remote to control 7 devices (TV, HR10, HR20, DVD player, DVD recorder, SA8300 and receiver/amp). I learned the HR20 buttons into the remote since it was made before the HR20 (it is an older SL9000 that I will use until it finally breaks...it has been a GREAT remote for me).

Well, the skip to tick (hold down the FF or REW buttons on the HR20 remote) don't work and I was bumming, trying to figure out how to get it to learn that trick when I stumbled on a work-around.

If I hold down the FF or REW button for 3 seconds then click it again, it skips to the next tick. I figure that the button doesn't actually change coding when it sends out but it does a pulse and I am mimicking the pulse this way.

I hope this helps others not using the HR20 remote....or maybe everyone knows this already....I haven't read all the threads as I just got mine Friday.

mjs31
01-16-07, 03:24 AM
Don't know if this has been mentioned as a workaround so I'm posting what I discovered today.

I am using a learning remote to control 7 devices (TV, HR10, HR20, DVD player, DVD recorder, SA8300 and receiver/amp). I learned the HR20 buttons into the remote since it was made before the HR20 (it is an older SL9000 that I will use until it finally breaks...it has been a GREAT remote for me).

Well, the skip to tick (hold down the FF or REW buttons on the HR20 remote) don't work and I was bumming, trying to figure out how to get it to learn that trick when I stumbled on a work-around.

If I hold down the FF or REW button for 3 seconds then click it again, it skips to the next tick. I figure that the button doesn't actually change coding when it sends out but it does a pulse and I am mimicking the pulse this way.

I hope this helps others not using the HR20 remote....or maybe everyone knows this already....I haven't read all the threads as I just got mine Friday.

Yep...a known work around for us with the Harmony 880 remotes.