Hopper Great, But

[RT-Cat]

Had a Hopper for a few days now and it IS one great DVR! Too bad that Dish decided to make the remote RF only. That sure made a "mess" with my programmable remote that need the IR commands from the Dish remote to set it up. So now I have to use my TSU7000 to turn on the Onkyo receiver, set it to the correct input and turn on the TV. Then switch to the dish remote and watch whatever. Bummer.
But....the Hopper is still GREAT!
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[navychop]

Harmony. Just load the command set online. Or use older Dish remotes to learn almost everything.

 

[RT-Cat]

Harmony. Just load the command set online. Or use older Dish remotes to learn almost everything.

"Or use older Dish remotes".........Well my TSU7000 has all the commands from my 722K and they do nothing to the hopper. I think hopper only takes IR from the special TV, DVD, and AUX buttons. Looks to me that hopper only works with RF.
"Just load the command set online"......You lost me on that one.
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[gadgtfreek]

Harmony One for me, had no problems. Thats for the wife though, I HATE the universal remotes to be honest, I use original remotes for everything. Harmony is pure WAF in our house.

 

[king3pj]

There is a setting in the hopper to turn on IR for remotes. I don't remember exactly where it is located but I had to turn it on for my cheapo harmony 300.


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[lucky86]

Settings remote manager ir

 

[navychop]

Hopper works with IR. and Hopper remotes have an IR window up frt also.

Harmony website lets you download command sets for any Dish STB. And then you can customize if you wish. BTW my Harmonies set for ViP722s worked for the Hoppers using just IR. I only reprogrammed to get the color buttons.

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[king3pj]

It's a little strange that they don't leave this on by default. My Dish RF remote still works so I don't see what the downside would be.


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[navychop]

That was the default for mine upon arrival.

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[3HaloODST]

One reason to have IR off is for example I'm using he 40.0 with one of my Hoppers, have a Joey right next to it, using a 20.0, if IR was enabled on both receivers they'd both be responding to the 20.0.

As previously stated, MENU - SETTINGS - REMOTE MANAGER - IR will enable IR if the IR popup didn't occur.

 

[RT-Cat]

Hopper works with IR. and Hopper remotes have an IR window up frt also.

Harmony website lets you download command sets for any Dish STB. And then you can customize if you wish. BTW my Harmonies set for ViP722s worked for the Hoppers using just IR. I only reprogrammed to get the color buttons.

I will look into that download command sets at the remote central site and see what they have. Hopper is set with IR on. Philips Pronto Pro TSU7000 has all the learned commands from my 722K when I had one. Those commands will not make my hopper do anything. ?

It's a little strange that they don't leave this on by default. My Dish RF remote still works so I don't see what the downside would be.

Dish remote works OK. But, when you have 9 devices in your home theater that use a remote, it is nice to use one for all and not have 9 remotes lined up in a row. That would be the downside.
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[king3pj]

I will look into that download command sets at the remote central site and see what they have. Hopper is set with IR on. Philips Pronto Pro TSU7000 has all the learned commands from my 722K when I had one. Those commands will not make my hopper do anything. ?


Dish remote works OK. But, when you have 9 devices in your home theater that use a remote, it is nice to use one for all and not have 9 remotes lined up in a row. That would be the downside.
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You misunderstood what I meant. I use a harmony to control my TV, hopper, AVR and other devices too. I was saying I don't see why the hoppers don't come with IR turned on by default. I had trouble getting my universal remote to control it too.


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[JM42]

I will look into that download command sets at the remote central site and see what they have. Hopper is set with IR on. Philips Pronto Pro TSU7000 has all the learned commands from my 722K when I had one. Those commands will not make my hopper do anything. ?

What 722 remote address was learned? Hopper only uses the IR address 1.

 

[RT-Cat]

What 722 remote address was learned? Hopper only uses the IR address 1.

Well....it was from the main or living room remote that was IR. The bedroom one was RF. Everything I needed from the living room remote was learned into the TSU7000. And it ran the 722K just fine. No action with Hopper set to IR.
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[KKlare]

I think you missed the point. Your learned remote matched your 722 but could have been any address 1 to 16 (maybe 1 to 32 with extra work) but the Hopper and Joey will only accept address 1.
-Ken

 

[david_jr]

We use a Harmony with our Hopper too. We really only use it to turn everything on and everything off. After the system is on it just seems easier to use the guide, change channels and make minor volume adjustments with the Dish remote.

 

[navychop]

We use a Harmony with our Hopper too. We really only use it to turn everything on and everything off. After the system is on it just seems easier to use the guide, change channels and make minor volume adjustments with the Dish remote.

Which Harmony? And does it have the colored button functions? WAF and MiL greatly prefer a single remote.

 

[RT-Cat]

I think you missed the point. Your learned remote matched your 722 but could have been any address 1 to 16 (maybe 1 to 32 with extra work) but the Hopper and Joey will only accept address 1.
-Ken

OK. Then it must be something other than address 1 that is learned in the TSU7000. I guess I am just stuck with one remote that runs 8 devices and one remote to run the Hopper.
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[KKlare]

What I am saying is either you have it use its stored programming for Dish, which would be address 1 or "address-less", if there is such, or you set the old Dish remote to address 1 and learn each command, more work.
-Ken

 

[RT-Cat]

What I am saying is either you have it use its stored programming for Dish, which would be address 1 or "address-less", if there is such, or you set the old Dish remote to address 1 and learn each command, more work.
-Ken

That would work if I still had the old remotes. They went back with all the other "Dish Stuff" when I left Dish in June.
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