X10 Anywhere 2000 RF Remote

[Mark F]

Welcome to Girder!

How does this remote's receiver attach to the PC? Serial port? USB? ???

[Mark F]

I'm probably wrong but from the X-10 site, it appears this remote uses the TM751 to get the remote control signals on the power line. At that point, any two way X-10 product (homeseer, activehome, etc.) could respond to the signals. Yes? No? Maybe? :)

[Ingo]

Hi xportz,

just dump that boom2k thing.... I never realy used it.... get MarkF's Serial Plugin (current: 3.0.3). And get the X10 config file that is available from the page you get when you click on the left green button on the same line.
This works for my X10-MP3-Anywhere.

[Ingo]

Hi xportz,

no, I don't use this model. I use different models (for different rooms ;-)). The receiver is labled "MR26E for use with UR47E". Its sa small black box with a red LED and connects to the serial port.

[ertyu]

I use the Generic IR (UIR) with this. Works fine.

[xportz]

Howdy!

I picked up an X10 Anywhere 2000 remote and for the life of me cannot get it to work with Girder! It only seems to work with the completely useless Boom2000 software from X10. I've tried using the x10 plugin to no avail. Am I wasting my time, or should Girder support it?

Any help would be great!!

XPortZ

[xportz]

It's an RF remote and receiver connected via serial. I'm using XP. Could that be the problem?

Thanks for the quick response!

XPortZ

[xportz]

Thanks for the tip, but STILL no dice, even after going through all of that configuration stuff. Are you using model UR81A? This one is mine: http://graphics.x10.com/images6/sp_remote.jpg

Thanks

[Snoopo]

xportz Have you been able to figure out how to make your UR81A X10 remote works, because I have the same...
Thanx for your help...

:lol:
Snoopo

[whashapponin]

I just got this same set up going using the above mentioned serial dll and a bit of fudging. This seems to do the trick:

Baud Rate: 9600
Receive Settings:

Character events: enabled.
Fixed Length: enabled.
# of characters: 10.
Translate Bin->Hex: Enabled.


If you leave everything else at the default, you should be fine.

(BTW, my firecracker receiver is # MR26a)

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[chanpreet20]

Hi there

With mark's help i could get this x10 remote to work with the serial plugin but i cant use all the funcationalities of this remote. Great work Mark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this remote lets you control three programs on your computer (mp3,cd,dvd) and using the boom software(which sucks) u can choose which player you want to allot to each. So say you have set mp3 to winamp, you press the mp3 button and press play , then winamp starts playing...then choose cd and press play then media player starts playing(for example)

but when i set an event in grider i can only use one program, as it doesnt understand the mp3/dvd/cd button (thus i cant change states)

i was wondering if anyone using this remote had this problem or found a way around it

if yes then what events did you use..and could i have a look at your groups


just a thought

[ertyu]

I added a group triggered by the PC button which activates another group which allows you to select yet more groups to activate.

IE.

A master group that is always active and receives the PC button.
When the PC button is received a 'switch' group is activated, other groups deactivated. In the 'switch' group you link the number (mp3/dvd.etc) buttons to activate a group for that task and deactive the 'switch' group.

[Mark F]

Another possibility is to see if the MouseRemote support included with the Serial plugin will support YOUR remote. The MouseRemote.ini device file includes support for "modes" like PC, CD, DVD, etc.

Just a thought. :)

[chanpreet20]

hi ertyu

i was wondering if it is possible to attach your exported group to a thread as i can then download it and use it without having to go around and configuring it from stratch

thanks

[ertyu]

here is my whole gml, extract what you need

http://www.ertyu.org/~steven_nikkel/running2.gml

[Mulefire]

Hi,

glad to see some other people with this remote... I only found out about girder when I realised that the Boom 2000 software would not work with Zoom Player.. I checked the Zoom Player site and it links here.

Anywayz, I have been fiddling around, using the serial plugin and the mouseremote ini file along with the settings on this thread but I don't seem to be getting anywhere. I was just wondering if anyone who did get it working had any more tips?

Just so I know I am on the right track, does this sound right, I used the export keys as gml file from within Zoom Player. Loaded that group into girder, then for example selected the play item, went to the "learn event" option and selected "generic serial support" from the dropdown, clicked the "learn event" button and pressed the play button on my remote. I don't see any command string in the edit box so I must be doing something wrong...

When I press the "stop" button on my remote I get a Serial Error popup stating: COM Error on COM2 = 8 (hex) heh.. no idea what that means :)

[Mark F]

That is a framing error. It means you don't have one or more of the port parameters (baud, parity, word size, stop bits) set correctly.

[Mulefire]

Yeah, I figured it was... Does anyone have an example of the settings they used for this. I copied the ones from the forum exactly but I must have something different with my config. I'm going to go play around.. trial and error, see what gives!

Thanks for the reply :)

[Mulefire]

Doh.. heh.. got it working.. I was being stupid and loading the mouseremote ini file.. should have read the text better.. works great with the settings provided and without any device enable scripts. :)

[Mulefire]

I changed the characters to 5 instead of 10 becuase it seems that certain buttons on the remote, i.e play stop etc, leave the previous code as the first set of five and the actual code as the second. This would be nice for combos but you would have to press the stop button twice for a normal stop etc.

To save some folks the time, here are the codes for the various buttons:



Button Code Change
====== ==== ======
Power AAEEF0ADD5 F0
PC AAEED4ADD5 D4
Chan Up AAEE40ADD5 40
Chan Down AAEEC0ADD5 C0
Vol Up AAEE60ADD5 60
Vol Down AAEEE0ADD5 E0
Mute AAEEA0ADD5 A0
1 AAEE82ADD5 82
2 AAEE42ADD5 42
3 AAEEC2ADD5 C2
4 AAEE22ADD5 22
5 AAEEA2ADD5 A2
6 AAEE62ADD5 62
7 AAEEE2ADD5 E2
8 AAEE12ADD5 12
9 AAEE92ADD5 92
0 AAEE02ADD5 02
Enter / Ok AAEE52ADD5 52
A/B AAEEBAADD5 BA
A AAEE3AADD5 3A
B AAEED8ADD5 D8
C AAEED6ADD5 D6
D AAEED4ADD5 D4
Menu AAEEB6ADD5 B6
Exit AAEEC9ADD5 C9
Up AAEED5ADD5 D5
Down AAEED3ADD5 D3
Left AAEED2ADD5 D2
Right AAEED1ADD5 D1
Rewind AAEE38ADD5 38
Play AAEEB0ADD5 B0
Fastforwad AAEEB8ADD5 B8
Stop AAEE70ADD5 70
Pause AAEE72ADD5 72

[Snoopo]

Well, several people seem to finally have the UR81A remote from X10...
Is there a possibility to use this remote for mouse movements and clicks?
Thanx for your answer...

Snoopo

[Profex13]

Hey guys, I finally got it working. I still would like to know the exact hardware configuration. I have a X10 UR1A universal remote using the MR2A serial receiver. I need all of the setup info the you are using if you are using this remote (ie, Baud rate, byte size Parity, Stopbits, Init string, Response, and the timings). I was just woundering if anyone knew the official settings. BTW my signal comes in a bit different then yours. I get D5AAEEF0AD where as you posted AAEEF0ADD5, hence why I want to know the timings.