Written by Andrew Butkus
www.lommage.co.uk/slingbox

Creating Your Own Remote Bin File Directly From Your Remote Control!

Tools Required

URC-8910 Learning Remote Control
JP1 Cable
A Computer with a working parallel port
IR.exe 6.15
Remote Master 1.36
RDF Files

Finding These Tools

-You can purchase the URC-8910 remote control from HiFi-Remote.com

-You can purchase the JP1 cable from diygadget.com or Hovisdirect.com but you can also get it from ebay (like I did) as some of the suppliers won't ship to outside of the US or Canada.

-You can download IR.exe and Remote master from Hifi-remote.com freely. You will need the java runtime environment (JRE) as well. A lot of computers will already have it installed already, but you can download it from here - get it without netbeans (unless you want to develop java applications).

-You can download the RDF files from here.

Tutorial

First, I'd like to familiarize you with the remote control you will be using:

It should look something like this. If it doesn't you might have bought something different, in which case you might need to do different steps in order to get the remote control codes you require.

Before you continue, please make sure you have Java runtime environment (JRE - to download see above) and make sure all the downloaded software is extracted from their zip packages.

Step 1 - Codes from your Remote

1.1: Get the remote control you wish to create the bin file for.

1.2: Hit one of the buttons at the top which applies to the device you wish to create the bin file for. (eg. TV, DVD, Satellite)

1.3: At the bottom there will be a button called 'set' keep your finger pushed on that until the LCD changes so you can modify your remote control.

1.4: Click down until you come an option called 'LEARN' and click select.

1.5: Click one of the buttons on the remote control. For example, the '1' key

1.6: Put your remote control in front of the learning remote and click the 1 key - if it added it correctly it should say 'Success' or 'OK'

1.7: Repeat this step for each of the keys you want to learn and have on your Slingbox!

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