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August 18, 2003

TiVo Weirdness With A Happy Ending

I woke up a few min ago and of course couldn't fall right back to sleep. I picked up my remote and started flipping through channels when I noticed something wasn't quite right. It wouldn't change correctly to anything that had a six in the number. It just wouldn't accept the code for a six. I scratched my head a moment, since this was odd. I pinched myself to make sure I wasn't still asleep. I grabbed the old remote to test things out and the six that got sent by that was received by the cable box. Then, I started looking through the TiVo setup menus and decided to fiddle around with the remote settings. One way the TiVo works is by sending remote control codes to the cable box. When you set up the TiVo you get to choose what kind of remote to send a bunch of test signals to it. In the end I found a setting that not only worked perfectly, but worked even better than the old settings. Now I am able to watch Comedy Central. Btw, if you've got the General Instruments cable box from AT&T/Comcast and live in the Cambridge area you might try setting 10006, that's the one that worked best for me. It even changes flawlessly on the 'fast' setting.

Dude, you are in the zone.

Posted by snooze at August 18, 2003 3:08 AM