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Need help with 1 MX-880 and 2 MRF-350's

post #1 of 7
1/10/10 at 6:29pm
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Just bought a new MX-880 and 2 MRF-350's. Want to use one base station to control components in one room, the other station to control different components in another room. Programmed the remote and set RF ID's for the stations no problem. Room A works like a charm (RF for nearly all items), but Room B doesn't work at all. Room A's station has 0 for its RF ID; Room B has 1 as an ID. The station and RF component show no interference, the codes all work perfect on a IR basis, and I've double checked the assigned transmitters (all assigned correctly, all transmitting). Very strange. please help!
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post #2 of 7
1/10/10 at 7:21pm
Well, you certainly don't want to use ID 0. ID 0 is for testing interference only and it will cause you get a lot commands destined for the other base station. I don't know that fixing that will resolve your issue but I would start with that.

If that doesn't help, can you post a screenshot of your RF config from the MX-880?
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post #3 of 7
1/11/10 at 5:10am
they both require the same address. ID 1
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post #4 of 7
1/11/10 at 5:31am
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they both require the same address. ID 1

That may be OK if it does not matter about blasting the same commands out of both. But if say you had 2 cable boxes, 1 on each, you woud not be able to send commands to just 1. I would assign each a different ID.
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post #5 of 7
1/11/10 at 7:13am
Could you not define which port on a specific base-station you wish have send the command to the device when a key is hit?
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post #6 of 7
1/11/10 at 8:22am
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Could you not define which port on a specific base-station you wish have send the command to the device when a key is hit?

Thats where using different base station ID's come from - you can target both what base station and port the command is sent via (at least you can with the MX-980)...... if you configure both to ID 1 then you lose some of the flexibility
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post #7 of 7
1/11/10 at 9:49am
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they both require the same address. ID 1

The ID's should be different unless you want them both to accept every command.

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Could you not define which port on a specific base-station you wish have send the command to the device when a key is hit?

The ID is used to define which base station accepts the command. You can further target it to the specific output on the base station per device.
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