Need quick advice on how to connect C61K

No I know it does not appear on the C61K. You need to use an older HR receiver and setup a remote for receiver 3 then play around with switching between RF/IR on the 61 and when it asks you to press buttons to go into IR mode use the remote you programmed. I wish I could give you step by step but I just messed with it for about 30 minutes and it started working on about the third try. BTW the C61K still says it's in RF mode but it is working with my Harmony 900 in IR mode. It must be some half baked code inside the C61K that got activated.

 

Only use my AVR remotes infrequently and all my HDMI switching is done by voice control. I have a couple Fire Cubes that control the TVs and they do the HDMI switching better than anything I've ever used. I have 3 AVRs in use and use a TV remote for voice commands for the one TV that doesn't have a Cube. But we all have different ways of doing things. I get that.

I bought this Harmony remote a couple years ago: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IAKLM54/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I used it for a week or so and returned it. It was a very interesting remote but I felt like I was using a Cadillac to haul junk. Way too sophistacated for what I wanted to use it for. I can use one of the old D* remotes without looking at it and I've been using the peanut remote for the 44 and can almost use it as easily as the older version. I can't do that with the 650. Just me.

Rich

 

I wonder if even if though it might not be possible to get the client to respond to an alternate IR setup, what about the HR54 itself... Don't know if that would help or not.

Not remembering exactly how I'd set that up for the HR44, though, and wonder if it's still doable in the new GUI, but it was still working in AV1 mode when I last used that unit 7 months ago.

(I'd try going into its menus, but currently it sits unplugged and unused since 1088 made it next to useless for me - I was ok with 1037 Service 2.)

 

I put a 3TB WD Green (I thought I bought a Red Caviar HDD) HDD in my 44 the day I got it. It lasted 3 years. It was sluggish and nothing I did helped. The picture broke up a lot, more than I saw on my 24s viewing the same content and I always had audio breakups. I had problems with that 44 from the day I got it. I put a new drive on it 6 months ago and have no issues now. I blamed the software and hardware for the problems and I was wrong, it was the HDD. Given what I went thru over 3 years, I'd say that you're gonna get somewhere between 2-3 years of good performance and then you are gonna see that sluggishness. What you see now isn't gonna last. That time frame is variable, of course.

Rich

 

Is the tape still on the C61Ks IR sensor? If not, you may need to reset the RC65R to code 00001. (hold down mute and select til the light flashes, then key in 0-0-0-0-1)

If you can't get the RC65R to control the C61K, then you will never get the Advanced Setups menu.

 

If you care to pursue this any further, focus on the C61K. In my experience, the HR54 is the only DIRECTV box that is locked to 00001.

 

Actually they don’t and it’s the boxes not the remotes that are the issue first. Anything prior to a hr44 that uses a rc6x remote only looks for RF or IR at a time neither both. Easily proven by setting up two remotes one rf and one ir and you will find only one will ever work. It wasn’t till the receivers that use the rc7x that the receivers looked for both.

 

Understood but... the key things is using an old remote and starting with code one but also chose if something beyond code 2. Try code 4 or something of that nature. Do you happen to have a rc6x that doesn’t have a r or x at the end of the model number? I’d try that on the c61k. And you can easily program harmonys for other DIRECTV codes once you have the box working on a different code because harmony has all 8 ir codes in their system.

I honestly don’t think I tried to change a c61k but I’ll give it a try next time I have the time.

 

The problem to me is that when he got to the part of the instructions he did not have a slider to change the remote.
For the new RC7x remote there isn't one. However the codes all start with a unique number. The receivers, etc. start with a "0". So, when you get to that point you just imagine that you slid the selector and Press the Mute and Select buttons, wait for the light on the end to flash 2 times, then type in 00002. This sets the remote. As soon as you got to this point in the instructions and told it that this was receiver #2, the IR settings in the receiver are now for the 00002 remote.
I do not have this equipment so I can't actually do it to show that it works.

 

You physically can’t change any of the receivers codes with a rc7x remote. Not physically possible. You could do it with a harmony though if you have it programmed for two separate DIRECTV IR codes in advance.

 

Do you mean I can't use an IR remote on a 24 that's set for RF? Oops, you're right, must have been thinking of the 44s. I'll delete that post.

Rich

 

Have you tried resetting the remote to factory specs and then follow the instructions ?
Press Mute and Select, hold them down til the light on the end flashes 2 time,
then type in 981.