Help! Learning from smart remote for air-conditioner

[Tankc4]

Hi Jon (or anyone who has solved this problem!),

My background with this issue: I'm disabled and can't use normal remotes so I rely on the UIRT to control things from my computer (which I can use).

I have just moved house, and in my old house I had a Daikin air-conditioner, which I couldn't control for years (which was a nightmare), until I got a UIRT, and figured out a way to learn the codes from the smart remote. See the last post of this thread on how I did it:
http://65.36.202.170/phpBB2/viewtopic.p ... 0259b3eaf3

Problem is in my new place I have a Panasonic air-conditioner with another smart remote, and this time I don't seem to be able to learn the codes. I am desperately hoping that it can be done though.

From my post in the other thread:

I got the USB UIRT about a week ago and initial attempts to learn the codes failed (just by learning through girder and " accepting burst" for each keypress).
The learning window indicated that the signal was 33.5 kHz.
So I learnt the code again and accepted burst, then changed number of repetitions to 1, and frequency to 35 kHz (as you can't select lower than that) and voilଠit works!

When trying that with my new remote the girder plug-in reports a frequency of about 36.8 kHz (the progress bar only goes a little way). Then I click "accept burst" and set repetitions to 1. The plug-in rounds the frequency up and sets it at either 37 or 37.5 kHz. I click test and it doesn't work. I've tried to set it on 36 kHz but that doesn't help.

Any ideas on what else I could try????

[Tankc4]

I'm not sure if this will be any help, but this is what the codes look like in the girder plug-in after I accept burst:

This was a code that worked from my old Daikin smart remote:

R024280A8490C3D0C190C190C190C3D0C190C190C190C190C3D0C190C3D0C3D0C190C3D0C3D0C3D0C3D0C3
D0C190C190C3D0C190C190C190C190C190C190C190C190C190C190C3D0C3D0C190C190C3D0C190C3D0C3D0
C3D0C190C190C190C190C190C3D0C190C3D0C190C190C190C3D0C3D0C3D0C3D0C190C190C190C190C190C1
90C190C190C190C190C190C190C190C190C190C190C190C3D0C190C3D0C3D0C190C190C190C190C3D0C190
C3D0C190C190C190C190C190C190C190C3D0C190C190C190C190C3D0C3D0C190C190C190C190C3D0C190C

And this is a code that is captured from the Panasonic air-conditioner, that doesn't work

R08008081411011103110111011101110111011101110111011101110111011103110111011101110111011
101110111031103110311011101110311011101110111011101110111011101110111011101110111011101
110111011101110111011101110111011101110111011101110111011101110111031103110111011101110
111011108174808141101110311011101110111011101110111011101110111011101110311011101110111
011101110111011103110311031101110111031101110111011101110111011101110111011101110111011
1011103110111011103110111011103110111011103110111011103110311011101110111011101110

This is another capture of the same setting on the remote, the code is slightly different?:

R08008081411011103110111011101110111011101110111011101110111011103110111011101110111011
101110111031103110311011101110311011101110111011101110111011101110111011101110111011101
110111011101110111011101110111011101110111011101110111011101110111031103110111011101110
111011108173808141101110311011101110111011101110111011101110111011101110311011101110111
011101110111011103110311031101110111031101110111011101110111011101110111011101110111011
1011103110111011103110111011103110111011103110111011103110311011101110111011101110

I inserted line breaks to stop the page from being too wide.

[jrhees]

You may want to perform an IR Debug of a button and perhaps we can make sense of it.

-Jon

[Guest]

Hi Jon, thanks for your reply. I tried "IR debug" but as the signal is only momentary the progress bar only went part of the way on one try and the "accept burst" button wasn't active, then on the next try the "accept burst" button was active, but when I clicked it nothing happened and I had to cancel the dialog box.
Any thoughts on what is happening/what I'm doing wrong?

[jorel1970]

I just bought my usb-uirt, and try to use it to control my panasonic air conditioner. I have exactly the same problem. Any updates or resolution on this problem?

[jrhees]

Some of these (A/C) remotes do not put out a repetitive pattern, but instead encode all of the A/C parameters (temp, fan mode, etc) in a code burst that changes every time and is rather long. That may be a possiblity here. The only way to know for sure it to do a few IR Debug captures.

-Jon