How to: NTL/UPC/Chorus DVR and MCE

subway

just got the NTL DVR today, its guide is so bad it has reduced me to tears.
i have decided to route it through mce as it has the best guide features i have ever seen.

all was going well until it got to the remote setup part.
"hold channel up" - "your remote was not recognised"
no bother ill just set it up manually, ive dont it before so no worried, right?

wrong!
goes like this -
press 1, hold 1, release 1
press 1, hold 1, release 1
press 1, hold 1, release 1
press 1, hold 1, release 1

and so on, forever and ever and ever!

so i google and google and google,
turns out this problem is only with the UPC mediabox
see thread here - http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/98524.aspx
see posts 10 + 11 by RMarch
the trick is to press 1, while still holding 1, point the remote away from the receiver for a split second, point it back at the screen and it will be recognised.

hope this saves anyone out there some frustration!

Nothingbetter2d

place the ir blaster (the red flashy bit on the end of the wire) under the stb's infra receptor and then when your are asked to press hold and release do so by holding the stb remote up close to the MCE transceiver

bazwaldo

Received my UPC DVR box yesterday and tried the above process. WMC did recognise the UPC remote presses using the point the remote away and back again method. However the DVR box did not recognise any remote signals from the media center blaster. I tried it all over the front of the STB but to no joy (I believe its located just to the left of the LCD panel).

The make of the DVR is Thomson DCI6221UPC. Has anyone got this model working with Windows Media Center? The model may have changed since 2008.

subway

dont know, moved away from stb and went to satellite 18 months ago. last time i had a UPC DVR was 2008
i dont many with a Media centre setup and i imagine that most people using it have moved away from composite inputs to the native HD offered on satellite

bazwaldo

I have the HD freesat setup and saorview too on WMC but I wanted to cover my bases with the UPC input too. I know I can just record using the DVR for UPC only channels and MC for everything else but its annoying that its not working.

subway

ah, ok, ill take off my confused look and hop in the time machine then
googling suggests that the DCI6221UPC is AKA the UPC media box which would have been the device i was setting up all those years ago.

i was able to get it setup successfully, i think it took a serious amount of trial and error.
i think the ir receiver was, as you say, just to the left of the LCD but the blaster had to be right up against the box.

ill do some more digging for you

subway

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055661150#post62580168

bazwaldo

I'll play around a bit more with it later then. I'll try new batteries in the remote and move the blaster to exactly where the STB receiver is.

Thanks.

bazwaldo

Whether it was the batteries or placing blaster in right spot or both, I don't know but got it working quick enough on the second attempt.