<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Jeff<<a href="mailto:junk_inbox@verizon.net">junk_inbox@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I'm just glad that your Dish receiver doesn't *require* the UHF control<br>
> only, otherwise you wouldn't be able to control it with myth. Thankfully,<br>
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</div>As a point of interest, are there no uhf remote transmitters that are<br>
computer controllable?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Not that I'm aware of, at least not for Dish Network receiver control.<br><br>I had found a page on the web where somebody had hacked a Dish UHF remote to send just the numbers and 'ok', and had started to do the same to one of my UHF remotes, but then I realized that my 510 'pvr' receiver had IR receivers as well. I just had to set the remote code below 10 (IIRC). Then it worked with IR just fine.<br>
<br>The only time you'd 'have' to use UHF on a dish receiver is if it didn't have IR receivers, or the 2nd tuner on a dual-tuner box - but that would be less-than-optimal anyways as the 2nd tuner only has RF output from what I remember. :-(<br>
<br>J-e-f-f-A<br>