Help with Linking IR to Sage

[werneral]

Hi all,

I've had the following combo working fine for the last year and a half or so and all of a sudden last night the ability to control Sage via the IR remote went down the toilet.

USB-UIRT, USB-UIRT driver 1.4, SageTV vs 4, and a MX-500 remote.

The first thing I noticed was that I couldn't start and stop the recording I was watching. Thought maybe the batteries were low on the remote so I changed them. Same behavior with new batts.

Then decided to see if I could teach Sage the commands again. This is where things get a bit weird. I can seemingly teach Sage commands, but if I move on to another command the previous command gets changed to the one I'm currently teaching. At the same time I'm not able to teach each command, only about 30% of the ones I "train" are retained. Those few that can train then work properly.

I'm thinking something got corrupted somewhere. Any ideas on what to try or where to look?

Thanks in advance,

Al

[werneral]

No replies?

Okay, so if it's not a known problem does anyone have any idea as to whether or not an upgrade to the latest Sage will fix my problem?

[mike1961]

Sometimes when batteries go down or dead in a universal remote the code gets changed. Another issue could be that you have switched the universal remote from say the TV setting to the DVD or another setting. I have found that I simply need to reprogram the code for the universal remote every now and then (TV, VCR, DVD, or whichever is selected).

Mike

[werneral]

Thanks for the reply Mike. I don't think the remote was the problem, but I really have no idea what was going on. At the moment everything is working as it should and I didn't do anything other than make repeated attempts at teaching Sage what the remote commands should do.

I suspect some sort of glitch in Sage, but have no way to determining really was going on. Mysterious...

Thanks again for the suggestion.

Al