--- In RMCEnhancer@yahoogroups.com, "Jay" <jay13178@y...> wrote:
>
> I opened this program on my computer and figured, okay, it'll be like
> omniremote, but i'll just have to manually enter the ir codes or
> something maybe, like prontoedit, but it'll actually work with the
> clie's enhanced ir. and then i'm confronted with "device type," (which
> doesn't even have sat's or cable boxes in the lookup) and "protocol,"
> (which doesn't even have my maker in the lookup)
> and "device/subdevice." (which is entirely unintelligible to me).
>
> wtf? :confused: i'm not even 100% clear on what these things even are
> (though i have read the readme), much less how to find out what the
> heck the values should be for my particular devices. i can understand
> like in omniremote, you push the button, and all those hex codes like,
> correspond to pulses in the ir beam. but this rmcenhancer is totally
> foreign to me.
>
> is there like, a user-friendly walkthrough of setting up a definition
> for like somebody's cable box that i could follow along with and set
> up my own?

Building a definition from scratch is really for the technically
minded who understand how the protocols work, or are willing to
experiment. Instead, look at the existing cable definitions that
other people have put together, and see if any of those will work for
you.