I have an 890 and I am having trouble when I stick the RF Extender in the loop. I am trying to control a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD using the RF Extender so my wife doesn't have to worry about aiming the remote for 15 seconds while everything powers on (the TV takes a long time to warm up). The problem I am experiencing is the directional pad (and page up/page down) have two actions for every one button press. So when going through the guide, it jumps two channels everytime I press it once. These seem to be the only buttons having this problem. I have set the Repeats from the default of 2, down to 0 and still have the problem. I even had the problem when I used the IR Blaster on the RF Extender from the back of the room. The 890 itself controls it fine using the IR on it. What I have determined is the Repeats settings does not seem to have any effect on the RF Extender for this device. I have a Slink-E IR reader, and when the repeats was set to 2, the 890 sent the command 4 times. The RF Extender sent the command 5 times. When I set the repeats to 0, or 1 the RF Extender still sends the command 5 times. Has anyone else observed this type of behavior and come up with a fix? I am working with Logitech, but so far I don't have a fix. Currently they have changed the command from a "Hold" command to a "Press" command, which I don't expect to do fix the problem, but will try tonight. I have also tried learning the command in raw mode, and that did not help either.

Do you have the device set to a particular port on the RF base or set to "all"? If it is set to "all" then assign your device to the port with the emitter.

I have every device set to their own port. In this case I wouldn't think it should matter because when I am hitting the up/down I am only working with one device the 8300HD. So there should be no other devices' IR being broadcast at the time I am having the problem.

I was just thinking that it could be getting hit by the IR emitter as well as the IR flasher from the extender causing it to double up.

I have the extender itself behind the TV facing the wall. But I even have this problem if I just use the extender itself in the back of the room aimed at everything. Assigning the ports is a good idea, but I have already had it <:

I was just thinking that it could be getting hit by the IR emitter as well as the IR flasher from the extender causing it to double up.

Well good news, for me anyway. Logitech setting the directional keypad to "Press" mode instead of "Hold" mode seems to have done the trick. Of course that is a setting I can not do... I wonder how to make sure that stays in my account so I don't have to figure out what is going on 2 years from now when it stops working again <:

I know this is an old thread, but I am having the same problem. I go through the wizard and register the RF Extender and I pick the devices to control and pick a port, but I can't seem to get anything to be controlled by the extender. Is there any way to tell if the extender is working, but maybe I just have the little IR Emitters in the wrong spot? From what I can read, when the RF stuff should be working, the little RF light on the Extender should flash. It does not. I know that the handheld will work if I only have it configured, so I don't think that the problem is that my components are too old or cannot be controlled. Anyone have any ideas or troubleshooting tips beyond what was in the Logitech FAQ?

having almost the same problem. i get everything setup and updated and when i plug my extender in. the rf light doesnt come on and nothing works. this is too frustrating.

push the button on the front of the extender and retry

Well good news, for me anyway. Logitech setting the directional keypad to "Press" mode instead of "Hold" mode seems to have done the trick. Of course that is a setting I can not do... I wonder how to make sure that stays in my account so I don't have to figure out what is going on 2 years from now when it stops working again <:

Hi Stiletto, I know old thread here but am having same problem and wondering (before I call for level 2 support) did that setting of "Press" instead of "Hold" seem to apply for all your devices via the extender? I ask because I'd love to have that programmed that way for my PS3 / 360 but not for my AppleTV.