Supporting multiple ReplayTV devices with the Pronto Remote

The following is a quote from Eric at ReplayTV that he posted in the AVSForum ReplayTV forum. The full text can be found here

-Undocumented, Unsupported Feature:
The 3.0 software has an unsupported feature that may interest some of you. That is ReplayTV and Showstopper can be set to respond to a remote with a unique ID. Some notes before I go into any descriptions. This is not an official feature, blah, blah, blah, may not be supported in the future, blah, blah, blah, no complaining about the implementation, (you may hurt my feelings). I added it specifically for the people here on the forum but had little time to make it more robust. Also don’t call tech-support about this, they don’t know about it and no we don’t have any remote set to other ID’s. That said, here is what it does:

A ReplayTV /Showstopper will always respond to the factory remote. With this feature you can also get you ReplayTV / SS to respond to another remote that another ReplayTV/SS in the same room won’t respond to.

To set up a remote with another ID you will need a learning remote and probably access to a Pronto with the Pronto Edit software. When you set up a key, as described below, in the Pronto Edit software you can select the remote ID by entering 0-14 in the system field. ID 0 will always be recognized by a ReplayTV/SS. If you have another type of learning remote you can teach it from Pronto that has been set up.

Steps for ReplayTV models 2xxx and 3xxx

To teach your ReplayTV/SS what additional ID to respond to you need to follow the following steeps.
1) Power cycle your ReplayTV/SS by unplugging the power for 10 seconds the plugging it back in.
2) Wait for the unit to completely boot up.
3) Use any remote command with the ID you want that unit to respond to.
4) The ReplayTV/SS will now work with that ID.

This Setting is lost between power cycles. So if your ReplayTV reboots it will no longer respond to the new ID and you will need to go through the above steps again. I know this sounds weird but I only had about an hour slip it in. So, it is what it is.

Also 2xxx series ReplayTVs will now respond to the same keyboard commands as the 3xxx series ReplayTV and Showstopper.

Steps for ReplayTV models 4xxx and 5xxx

Go to the setup menu, by pressing the Menu key then select Setup from the choices.
Once the Setup menu is displayed press 243 RZ (where RZ is the Replay Zones key on the remote)
note : there are two different 243 RZ screens. One you get to from the Setup Menu and the other is if you do 243 RZ from any other screen/menu. Be sure you start at the Setup Menu before doing the 243 RZ command.
You will be taken to a setup screen that lets you set 3 things, the Remote Lockout Code, the Remote Machine Code and a selection for wether you want a transparent hub.
You should set the Remote Machine Code to the unit code as described below.

Remote Machine Code - if you have a Pronto or other advanced, programmable remote, you can set the machine code that the unit responds to when decoding its RC6A codeset. It will always respond to machine code 0, plus whatever one you specify here. You will have to reboot your machine after saving your changes in this panel, however, your settings will survive subsequent reboots. (soft boot is fine here)

ReplayTV Pronto Codes

The following is the mapping of RC6 codes in the Pronto to the appropriate ReplayTV command. To enter these commands in the Pronto you need to do the following steps:

1) Select the button you want to change and bring up the properties menu.
2) Select the action tab.
3) Press the RC5/6 button.
4) Select RC6 mode 6A.
5) Customer Code is 1
6) System code is 0 (for single ReplayTV. For multiple devices look here)
7) The command is listed in the table below.

RC6 Command	ReplayTV Command
0	0
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	7
8	8
9	9
10	Enter
11	Jump
12	Power Toggle
13	Power On
14	Power Off
15	Channel Up
16	Channel Down
17	unused (???)
18	Cursor Up
19	Cursor NE
20	Cursor Right
21	Cursor SE
22	Cursor Down
23	Cursor SW
24	Cursor Left
25	Cursor NW
26	Menu
27	Select
28	Exit
29	Display
30	Channel Guide
31	Record
32	Play
33	Pause
34	FF
35	Rewind
36	Stop
37	Return to Live
38	Quick Skip
39	Instant Replay
40	Replay Guide
41	Input
42	Replay Zones

If you find any errors please email me.