One-for-all-4 unviversal remote key functions

Hi. I'm in an email conversation with somebody that's trying to program
special key-function codes into a One-For-All-4 universal remote, a
URC-7740, so that they can convert their Sony RDR-GX120 DVD-recorder to
region-free.

Unfortunately, the conversation is extremely slow-going, and I don't
yet know if the URC-7740 takes 3-digit or 5-digit key-function codes.
(Typically, the older OFAs use 3 digits and the newest use 5 digits.)

Can anybody that owns a URC-7740 help me out here please?

A URC-7740:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...er/5344905.htm

The Sony hack:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=214244

To check if the OFA takes 3 or 5 digit codes, you do the following.

* Press the DVD button
* Hold the "magic" key until a double flash occurs on the DVD button.
* Enter 994 and watch for a double flash
* Press "magic" once without holding it
* With about 1 second between each key-press, enter: 0 0 0 0 0 0

Did a double flash occur after the 4th or the 6th zero? If it's the
former, then the OFA takes 3-digit codes and if it's the latter, then
it takes 5-digit codes.

(To restore the "0" key to normal: hold-magic ** 994 ** 0 0 **)

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Dave Farrance

go to oneforall.co.uk

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Hi. I'm in an email conversation with somebody that's trying to program
special key-function codes into a One-For-All-4 universal remote, a
URC-7740, so that they can convert their Sony RDR-GX120 DVD-recorder to
region-free.

Unfortunately, the conversation is extremely slow-going, and I don't
yet know if the URC-7740 takes 3-digit or 5-digit key-function codes.
(Typically, the older OFAs use 3 digits and the newest use 5 digits.)

Can anybody that owns a URC-7740 help me out here please?

A URC-7740:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...er/5344905.htm

The Sony hack:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=214244

To check if the OFA takes 3 or 5 digit codes, you do the following.

* Press the DVD button
* Hold the "magic" key until a double flash occurs on the DVD button.
* Enter 994 and watch for a double flash
* Press "magic" once without holding it
* With about 1 second between each key-press, enter: 0 0 0 0 0 0

Did a double flash occur after the 4th or the 6th zero? If it's the
former, then the OFA takes 3-digit codes and if it's the latter, then
it takes 5-digit codes.

(To restore the "0" key to normal: hold-magic ** 994 ** 0 0 **)

--
Dave Farrance

"Gary" wrote:

go to oneforall.co.uk

It doesn't exist. And how would going to the OFA homepage help with
unpublished product features anyway?

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Dave Farrance

"Dave Farrance" wrote in
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"Gary" wrote:

go to oneforall.co.uk

It doesn't exist. And how would going to the OFA homepage help with
unpublished product features anyway?


It exists on my computer, also it led me to the following page, which
suggests it is a 5 function code.
http://www.oneforall-int.com/cgi-uni...choice2=&code=

"Harry Stottle" wrote:

"Dave Farrance" wrote
"Gary" wrote:

go to oneforall.co.uk

It doesn't exist. And how would going to the OFA homepage help with
unpublished product features anyway?

It exists on my computer, ...

So it does. Apologies to Gary. I'd fallen into the habit of leaving out
the "www", as Gary had done. It wouldn't have mattered if that had been
the canonical name of the server, but www.oneforall.co.uk is actually
an alias of www.oneforall-int.com .

... also it led me to the following page, which
suggests it is a 5 function code.
http://www.oneforall-int.com/cgi-uni...choice2=&code=

Thanks. I'd looked at the OFA sites in the past, but the
key-function-codes had only been mentioned on the "unofficial" sites.
They're still not mentioned in the downloadable manuals for the
remotes.

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Dave Farrance

my son and I did just this hack using a very old 1 4 all 6 last weekend. we
had to update the codes with the Sony 5 download. (If you can do it you will
know what I mean)

Gary

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"Dave Farrance" wrote
"Gary" wrote:

go to oneforall.co.uk

It doesn't exist. And how would going to the OFA homepage help with
unpublished product features anyway?

It exists on my computer, ...

So it does. Apologies to Gary. I'd fallen into the habit of leaving out
the "www", as Gary had done. It wouldn't have mattered if that had been
the canonical name of the server, but www.oneforall.co.uk is actually
an alias of www.oneforall-int.com .

... also it led me to the following page, which
suggests it is a 5 function code.
http://www.oneforall-int.com/cgi-uni...choice2=&code=

Thanks. I'd looked at the OFA sites in the past, but the
key-function-codes had only been mentioned on the "unofficial" sites.
They're still not mentioned in the downloadable manuals for the
remotes.

--
Dave Farrance

"Gary" wrote:

my son and I did just this hack using a very old 1 4 all 6 last weekend. we
had to update the codes with the Sony 5 download. (If you can do it you will
know what I mean)

Um.

I wrote the GXD500 hack, but I don't know what a Sony 5 download is.

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Dave Farrance

My remote was so old I had to update the codes. There are 5 separate sets of
Sony DVD codes for downloading into the remote. I used the one labelled Sony
5 and it worked


Gary
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"Gary" wrote:

my son and I did just this hack using a very old 1 4 all 6 last weekend.
we
had to update the codes with the Sony 5 download. (If you can do it you
will
know what I mean)

Um.

I wrote the GXD500 hack, but I don't know what a Sony 5 download is.

--
Dave Farrance

"Gary" wrote:

My remote was so old I had to update the codes. There are 5 separate sets of
Sony DVD codes for downloading into the remote. I used the one labelled Sony
5 and it worked

Oh, OK. I recall somebody saying on some forum that the OFA6 could be
upgraded by playing a file to it via the PC's speaker, so I presume
that you mean that.

You wouldn't happen to know which OFA device-codes correspond to the
three Sony "command-modes", by any chance? You can select one of three
command-modes for the Sony remote, so that you can have up to three
Sony DVD players/recorders without their remotes interfering with each
other. I know that OFA device-code 0533 corresponds to command-mode 1,
but I don't know the other two.

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Dave Farrance