by jrhees » Sun Mar 30, 2003 5:47 am
BeRnA,
There are two possibilities here...
1) Your VCR remote sends out an 'alternating' code, which switches between two different codes on each successive button press.
2) Your VCR is ignoring the second '1' because it is received close enough (in time) from the first code that it thinks it might represent the same button press.
Here's an easy way to tell which:
Go to the code in Girder which transmits the '1' and press the 'Test Command' button to send the '1' to your VCR (this assumes you are *not* using an IR keyboard). Then wait a few seconds and press the 'Test Command' button again.
If your VCR sees two '1's with a couple seconds between each 'Test Command' press, then this is a timing issue. Otherwise, your remote is likely alternating between two codes.
Depending on the issue (1) or (2), there are different workarounds. In the case of timing, simply putting in a delay should do the trick.
In the case of alternating codes, since the Girder plugin is not (currently) capable of alternating codes, the easiest workaround for this is to put another VCR button code between the two '1's so that the VCR sees '1', other-code, '1', in that order. The trick is to find a VCR remote button which the VCR doesn't act upon during channel input.
Let me know what you find...
-Jon
P.S. I'd be very surprised if this is an alternating code issue, since Sony protocol typically doesn't use this.