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| gomezz |
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:34 pm |
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R2-D2 wrote: you can switch remote sets that the Toppy responds to (which is how the TF5810 can be used in conjunction with a TF5800), but your problem will be finding the codes to use for the alternate remote sets.
When I look up Topfield on the OFA web site for my URC 7556 remote it lists the following four codes:-
Setup Code : 1206
Setup Code : 1208
Setup Code : 1207
Setup Code : 1545
I am using 1206 for my current machine. Do these other numbers correspond to the other remote sets selectable by the RemoteSwitch TAP? |
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| underquark |
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:42 pm |
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| The URC7560 was marketed - and discontinued - long before the Toppy was conceived, I fear. I'm pretty sure those codes don't exist on it. Information I have says that Cable 0084 has the correct Protocol and Device number - I doubt that the buttons will match but the manual tells how to KeyMove and assign codes to buttons using KeyMagic so that would be one way. |
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| gomezz |
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:45 pm |
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underquark wrote: The URC7560 was marketed - and discontinued - long before the Toppy was conceived, I fear. I'm pretty sure those codes don't exist on it.
Was that a response to my previous post about using a 7556? In which case you have only added to my confusion.  |
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| underquark |
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:59 pm |
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Ah, I thought you were suggesting codes to try on the URC7560. What would work on the 7560 would be to set SAT to 0084 and then KeyMagic (i.e. manually enter) the Toppy2 codes for each button. Or make a JP1 cable.
I can't tell you the individual button codes for the Setup codes you mention for the 7556 since I didn't like my 7555 (same as 7556 but silver) and sold it. I can play about with codes for the 7560 since I still have a 7562 which has a very similar ROM code library. |
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| underquark |
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:18 pm |
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For brave owners of 2 Toppies and a URC7560, try this (at you own risk, naturaly):
Get the Remote Extender Toppy2 TAP
Take you 7560 and press SAT
Press and hold Magic then enter 0084
Now use Key Magic and the codes from one of the following columns (probably the first...maybe, anyway):
Press and hold Magic until it blinks
Press 994
Press Magic
Enter the 3-digit code
Press the button that you want to assign that code to
Repeat ad nauseum
Note that there might be issues with RE's handling of the code for Power
Code: power 087 42
mute 084 44
tv/radio 107 83
tv/stb 085 40
opt 100 84
1 153 49
2 151 50
3 155 51
4 148 52
5 152 53
6 150 54
7 154 55
8 021 56
9 025 57
0 149 48
recall 022 62
info 024 61
menu 023 58
guide 027 59
list 212 36
exit 216 37
up 213 32
down 217 33
left 219 35
right 215 34
ok 026 63
vol+ 089 41
vol- 020 60
ch+ 218 39
ch- 106 87
rew 104 85
play 102 86
fast fwd 229 88
slow 233 89
stop 231 90
rec 235 91
pause 214 38
pip 197 96
archive 201 97
text 199 98
red 040 77
green 088 45
yellow 086 46
blue 090 47
pip swap 070 110
white 228 92 |
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| juwlz |
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:36 pm |
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underquark wrote: juwlz wrote: It's a URC-7560......No sign or recollection of a modem though. Look closer! The modem is built-in. It was originally designed for over-the-telephone upgrades. Yes, I'd forgotten about the over-the-phone stuff until we found a copy of the manual on the interweb
Still not sure I'm brave (foolish?) enough to muck about with everything though. A good old-fashioned bit of stiff cardboard sounds like a good solution, especially as we'll still want to use the Harmony to control all the relevant AV equipment too, and that'll get horribly confused if it loses track of what's doing what.
Toppy Power is excluded from the Watch Toppy activity anyway, so that won't be an issue.
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| chunkywizard |
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:48 pm |
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Hey Ju,
remember Bob has 2 Toppies. He has an unreleased solution to your problem....
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| underquark |
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:31 am |
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juwlz wrote: Still not sure I'm brave (foolish?) enough to muck about with everything though. RE Toppy2 is a TAP. TAP's can be removed if they are found unsuitable. If you "muck up" the URC7560 ot can be retail reset by Magic 980 and factory reset (wipes out all EEPROM data but retains ROM data) by Magic 981. I would be the first to admit, though, the URC7560 is far from ideal as a PVR remote as it doesn't have enough buttons. Can't your Harmony accept user-generated upgrades? |
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| juwlz |
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:32 am |
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Andy K wrote: key stopper is a simple TAP. When the SAT button is pressed it ignores all keys except SAT. That comment, plus something one of the MyStuff team said, has prompted the idea for a ToppySwitcher TAP. (This may be similar to BobD's own solution, but he's away at the moment, and anyway, there's a lot of MyStuff coding to do.)
The basic idea is that the ToppySwitcher TAP is first in the load order. If the Toppy is currently enabled it passes on any button other than the Activation button (TV/Sat by default). If disabled, it swallows everything except the Activation button.
If it sees the Activation button, it then listens for another button press within the next <n> seconds, and if it sees something it recognises, it acts upon it. Only the currently active Toppy will ever display anything. If the config files are different/conflicting, the config file for the Toppy which is enabled when the Activation key is pressed should be used to decide how to switch, and the ini file for the selected Toppy should be used for confirmation. (Of course, in most cases, both will be the same anyway.)
The Toppy selection button for each machine can be any button on the remote other than the Activation key or the Menu key (and is defined in ini file).
* Double press of the Activation key confirms which Toppy is currently active using the configured confirmation method (if confirmation method is silent, use Text display, method 1 for this)
* Activation key followed by Menu key brings up the config menu (if such a friendly things is implemented )
* Activation key followed by an enable key for any of the Toppies enables one Toppy and disables all others
So, by default, TV/Sat followed by 1 enables Toppy 1, disables Toppy 2, and displays a message saying "Toppy 1" in black text on a white background one third of the way down the screen to confirm that Toppy 1 is enabled (i.e. listening for key presses).
Pressing TV/Sat twice brings up a text message saying "Toppy 1" to confirm that Toppy 1 is enabled.
Pressing TV/Sat followed by Menu brings up the config screen (of course this will need to be done on each Toppy, and to prevent confusion, each Toppy's config should be identical except for the Enable Button for this Toppy in column 2 of line 1).
Sample ini / readme file with default settings: Code: TV/Sat, 1, Verbose, 1
1, "Toppy 1", White, Black
2, "Toppy 2", Black, White
# Line 1 fields (global config):
# 1. TAP activation button (must be the same on all Toppies)
# 2. Enable button for this Toppy (must be different for each Toppy)
# 3. Switching style (Verbose | Silent)
# 4. Confirmation style
# 5 ... optional Confirmation parameters
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# Config line for each Toppy
# 1. Enable button (anything except Activation button or Menu button)
# 2. Toppy ID
# 3. Background colour for confirmation
# 4. Foreground colour for confirmation
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# Global config detail:
# Confirmation style and parameters
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# 0 - Silent, no confirmation
# 1 - Text (display text in column 2 in Foreground colour text on Background colour
# Options [Duration, X offset, Y offset]
# Default is to display centered horizontally, and vertically ToppyNum/(NumToppies+1) down the screen (e.g. 1/3 way down for Toppy 1, 2/3 down for Toppy2, etc.)
# Offsets of -1 (or omitted) mean "centred"
# 2 - Blob
# Options [Duration, X offset, Y offset]
# Default is to display first character of Toppy ID in Foreground colour text in a small circle of Background colour in top right corner.
# Negative offsets are relative to right/bottom instead of left/top
# 3 - Frame
# Options [Duration, numpixels]
# Default is to display a 5 pixel border in background colour
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# Example:
# TV/Sat, Red, Silent, 3, 2, 10
# Red, "Old Toppy - 160GB", Red, White
# Yellow, "New Toppy - 250GB", Yellow Black
#
# This uses TV/Sat as the activation key, doesn't display options when TV/Sat is first pressed, has the Red button as the activation key for this Toppy,
# displays a 10 pixel wide Red frame around the picture for 2 time units to confirm that the Red button has been pressed and the Red Toppy has been enabled.
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# Example:
# TV/Sat, TV/Radio, Verbose, 1
# TV/Radio, "Silver Toppy", White, Black
# Opt, "Black Panther", Black, White
# 0, "Disable all Toppies", Red, Yellow
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# This uses TV/Sat as the activation key, displays 3 lines of choices when the TV/Sat button is pressed:
# TV/Radio: Silver Toppy (displayed in Black text on White background)
# Opt: Black Panther (displayed in White text on Black background)
# 0: Disable all Toppies (displayed in Yellow text on Red background)
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# When TV/Radio is pressed, it confirms enabled Toppy by displaying "Silver Toppy" in Black text on White background, 1/4 of the way down the screen
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# displays a 10 pixel wide Red frame around the picture for 2 time units to confirm that the Red button has been pressed and the Red Toppy has been enabled.
# Anybody fancy writing it for the growing (but niche) band of multiple Toppy households? I bet that other than a pretty config screen any of you TAP authors could knock this up in pretty short order
NB: If there's a nice friendly configuration screen, the buttons and colours could be held in the ini file as the button codes and hex values without making it too obscure. Of course, that could still be the case even if there isn't a nice friendly config screen. It would just be less ... friendly.
NB: The default durations, positions and pixel widths may not be appropriate. I've just picked numbers out of the air. Duration could be counted as seconds, 1/10 seconds, milliseconds, whatever. I defer to the TAP author's better judgement.
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| R2-D2 |
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:52 am |
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juwlz wrote: The basic idea is that the ToppySwitcher TAP is first in the load order. There are a few tricky buttons, but the majority would work with a scheme like this. The notable exception is the Power button, which would require some tricky hacking to work properly, although a simple solution may be to use [Po] on both Toppies (and no other power handling mechanism) so that you always have to confirm the power off (using buttons that are handled properly). Won't stop the Front Panel turning on a Toppy, though. |
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| juwlz |
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:07 am |
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I'd just add the Power button (and any other tricky ones) to the list of non-allowed buttons and have done with it
It's a pretty niche TAP as it is. There's enough configurability there to keep nearly everyone happy already. No point making life difficult! |
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| juwlz |
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:17 am |
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i.e. we just live with the fact that the PowerOff button will work come what may. (Won't affect me anyway, mine's on all the time except when Power Manager turns it off at night.)
I guess a possibility would be an addition to the individual Toppy lines for each machine to be enabled or disabled on startup ... and/or for each machine to remember whether it was enabled or disabled when it was last running.
Actually, the fact that they might get out of sync reminds me of why the default position for the text was different for each Toppy - that way you can see if BOTH / all are enabled at the same time ... except, of course, that only one will be controlling the TV display. I knew there was a flaw in that plan.
(Maybe I need to ask for an enhancement to the front panel Display TAP so you can distinguish an enabled/disabled Toppy from the front panel somehow <g>.) |
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| gomezz |
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:44 am |
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Been playing with using both Toppys yesterday and run into a number of problems:-
1) Tried the Rx patch I saw mentioned but could not get that to work with any of the four remote control code sets listed for Topfield for my OFA URC 7556.
2) Looked at the RemoteExtenderToppy2 TAP (removing the Re patch) but cannot find anywhere the five digit decimal code numbers need to program the remote (I have no data cable).
3) Tried the KeyStopperON and KeyStopperOFF TAPs but the first one blanked the screen when the keys were unlocked and only showed the screen with the keys locked. But if I could sort this out it it may be my favoured option especially as it would mean using up only one of the device keys on my remote. Any ideas were I am going wrong? It is as though I have an anti-Ds patch installed.
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| gomezz |
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:11 am |
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I am now trying using KeyStopperOFF on both Toppies but this means turning one Toppy on and pressing the AV key *then* turning the other Toppy on so I end up with one locked and one unlocked.
Anyone got the KeyStopperON version to work for them? I was hoping it would turn the second Toppy on locked and with its AV light on. |
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| dannyc |
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:50 am |
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gomezz wrote:
2) Looked at the RemoteExtenderToppy2 TAP (removing the Re patch) but cannot find anywhere the five digit decimal code numbers need to program the remote (I have no data cable).
The code list a couple of replies back from underquark is what you want. Just left-pad the first code with 0s until it is 5 numbers long.
I programmed my remote via a JP1 cable, and have the function buttons also switching a scart box at the same time via macros.
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