Questions about remote control survey

[abu baniaz]

This has stemmed from the other thread in Dev section about keymap and DMM remotes. It looks like a large proportion of receivers are showing that they have DMM remotes.

[birdman]

This has stemmed from the other thread in Dev section about keymap and DMM remotes. It looks like a large proportion of receivers are showing that they have DMM remotes.

But how can you tell?
Mine is set to "Default", with no indication as to what that is (but I know it's not a DMM remote).

[adm]

This has stemmed from the other thread in Dev section about keymap and DMM remotes. It looks like a large proportion of receivers are showing that they have DMM remotes.

But on my Xtrend ET10K box AND my Zgemma H9S if I change the "default" to DMM or DMM advanced the remotes no longer work so one cannot assume that default is a DMM!

[ccs]

But on my Xtrend ET10K box AND my Zgemma H9S if I change the "default" to DMM or DMM advanced the remotes no longer work so one cannot assume that default is a DMM!

Isn't that the problem, some boxes are offering an alternative which doesn't work?

[adm]

Isn't that the problem, some boxes are offering an alternative which doesn't work?

Maybe the alternatives would work if you had the remote that matches. This may allow two boxes of the same brand/model to work independently in the same room using two different remotes.
My Xtrend and Zgemma boxes offer the choice of 22 different remotes with no indication of which is the “default”. I assume that the Xtrend box uses the Xtrend remote as the default and the Zgemma uses its own remote as the default.

[birdman]

Maybe the alternatives would work if you had the remote that matches. This may allow two boxes of the same brand/model to work independently in the same room using two different remotes.

I have that problem, but since I only have the remotes that came with the boxes being able to change them to a pair with no clashes isn't something I've been able to do.
And, oddly, from time to time my MBtwin (which has a card flap over the IR receiver so that my et8000 doesn't affect it) sometimes "locks-up" and won't respond to power on - but when this happens I can start it up with the "<<" key on the et8000 remote.

This is what my menu look like. The dreambox remote control entries are nothing to do with which remote I actually have.

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[birdman]

Isn't that the problem, some boxes are offering an alternative which doesn't work?

Both of my boxes offer a long list of "options", but only "Default" actually works.
Or rather, only "Default" works with the remote which came with the box.