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Sorry Dennis, lets get this working, you have the Hr20's using codes 00001 & 00002. That means the only thing is to put the H20 into RF mode, please follow these directions:

Cover the HR20 set to code 00002 for now. And with RF antenna attached to the H20 receiver, enter the menu of the H20:

1. menu> parental, favs & setup> system setup> remote> IR/RF>
2. you will see either IR or RF, click whichever to reveal both
3. either press RF or RF & DONE, the remote will stop controlling the receiver, do the following on the RF remote:

a) av2
b) press and hold MUTE & SELECT for two blinks
c) enter 9 6 1
d) press CH UP key
e) enter the last 6 digits of the receiver ID #, found on a sticker in the access card compartment
f) press SELECT

Remember to tell a RF remote from IR remote, check for the FCC sticker on the back of the remote.

The remote you listed should do RF.

Edmund's steps above are right.

When I did this, I set the directv swoosh option on the remote to RF mode for the H20.

The AV1 to 00001 for the 1st HR20, and AV2 to 00002 for the second HR20.

That let the remote control all 3 and the slingbox control the 2 HR20s.

I'm not sure if you can set the AV2 mode to RF, never tried it.

Edmond said:

Cover the HR20 set to code 00002 for now. And with RF antenna attached to the H20 receiver, enter the menu of the H20:

1. menu> parental, favs & setup> system setup> remote> IR/RF>
2. you will see either IR or RF, click whichever to reveal both
3. either press RF or RF & DONE, the remote will stop controlling the receiver, do the following on the RF remote:

a) av2
b) press and hold MUTE & SELECT for two blinks
c) enter 9 6 1
d) press CH UP key
e) enter the last 6 digits of the receiver ID #, found on a sticker in the access card compartment
f) press SELECT

Remember to tell a RF remote from IR remote, check for the FCC sticker on the back of the remote.

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Jason Crandall said:

The remote you listed should do RF.

Edmund's steps above are right.

When I did this, I set the directv swoosh option on the remote to RF mode for the H20.

The AV1 to 00001 for the 1st HR20, and AV2 to 00002 for the second HR20.

That let the remote control all 3 and the slingbox control the 2 HR20s.

I'm not sure if you can set the AV2 mode to RF, never tried it.

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OK, that worked. The problem was I was trying to set AV1 to RF and it wouldn't take. I switched the H20 from AV1/AV2 to DirecTV, then switched to RF, did the thing on the remote and it worked. But it doesn't work very well, it is very sluggish in RF in the DirecTV position, although it works fine in IR on Positions AV1 & AV2. Oh well, as I said, I don't use the H20 very much, but didn't want it being controlled by 00001 or 00002 because of the HR20's -- so mission accomplished.

Thanks.

For future reference - I think RF mode only works on the DirecTV swoosh remote option, not AV1/AV2.

Jason Crandall said:

For future reference - I think RF mode only works on the DirecTV swoosh remote option, not AV1/AV2.

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i'm sorry but you're wrong, I have 3 different receivers controlled by RF, using one RF remote.

For device to accept RF remote programming it has to be programmed with one of the following IR codes from 00001-00008. In the case of older RF remotes, 00001-00004.

When you're switching receiver and remote from IR mode to RF mode, its best the device is programmed with address the receiver was programmed for. But in the case where you're programming a second RF remote to given receiver already in RF mode, it doesn't matter what the device's SAT IR address is, just that it is one. And not a dvd, vcr, or audio receiver code.


Another thing, when in the remote menu, the word Directv is the receivers name for code 00001. And AV1/AV2 is the alternate code, either 00002 or 00003. So in this case Directv & AV1/AV2 have nothing to do with device names. Any device, other than TV, can be programmed with any SAT address code.

You could have a H20 set code 00001, then program the remote like this, code 00001 on AV2 device and code 00002 on the Directv device. The Directv device wouldn't conttrol the receiver, but AV2 would.

But now you wish to change the receiver to code 00002, with the remote in AV2 device, enter the menu of the receiver:

1. menu> parental, fav's, & setu> system setup> remote> receiver mode>

2. you will see either Directv or AV1/AV2, click whichever to reveal both

3. chose AV1/AV2, the remote will stop controlling the receiver, now slide to the Directv device which has code 00002 on it

4. press DONE and exit the menu

You see the device you start with and end with is meaningless, just the codes that programmed to them.

Hmm, I never could get it to work with more than one RF, and hawk was having problems.

I wonder if it is just certain remotes that can do that? I just have an old RC24.