Universal Remote control , more universal mod?

[Meat Plow]

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:19:53 -0400, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

N_Cook wrote:

So was that Allen Funt who televised the assignation between JFK and
Marilyn Munroe?


Yawn. Keep proving your stupidity. The President being shot to
death was a national tragedy. Maybe the next one will be in England, so
you can have an even bigger laugh. Maybe you'll get to roast
marshmallows at the wake.

I remember that day as well as I do 911. Us kids were having a 'circus'
in a neighbor's back yard. I went home to get something, forget what it
was, and my mom was pissed off and crying and told me I couldn't have
what I wanted because the pres had just been shot. That was Nov 22 of 63
so we must have been experiencing global warming back then if it was warm
enough to play outside with normal clothing as I remember.



--
Live Fast, Die Young and Leave a Pretty Corpse

 

[whit3rd]

On Aug 8, 4:46 am, "N_Cook" <dive...@tcp.co.uk> wrote:

Am I on a hiding to nothing? trying to crack a device with unavailable
remote control, and no button functions to speak of.

Many universal remotes need to know what KIND of box
before the code search works. It helps to know the
corporate entity that built the box (for instance, TiVO
responds to Philips satellite converter box commands,
because some Philips satellite converters were TiVO
equipped). And some of my Apple computers responded
to (? Samsung or Goldstar) TV codes. It seems odd that TV
codes operated the FM radio in a desktop computer.

 

[N_Cook]

whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Aug 8, 4:46 am, "N_Cook" <dive...@tcp.co.uk> wrote:

Am I on a hiding to nothing? trying to crack a device with unavailable
remote control, and no button functions to speak of.

Many universal remotes need to know what KIND of box
before the code search works. It helps to know the
corporate entity that built the box (for instance, TiVO
responds to Philips satellite converter box commands,
because some Philips satellite converters were TiVO
equipped). And some of my Apple computers responded
to (? Samsung or Goldstar) TV codes. It seems odd that TV
codes operated the FM radio in a desktop computer.

reply

There is a collation of a lot of useful background info links off this page,
I'm gradually wading through
http://www.educypedia.be/electronics/televisionrc5.htm
but linkages between makers seems a route to take.
But I still get the impression that types of kit whether air conditioners or
PVRs or whatever seem to have related structures of coding within the group
rather than by maker

 

[Arfa Daily]

"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote in message
news:slrni5tu2k.61c.gsm@cable.mendelson.com...

N_Cook wrote:
In the UK we were deprived of Cap'n Crunch 2600 Hz whistles and the phone
routing system to go with it

I remember visiting the UK in 1984 and trying to call back to the US. The
only
way to do it was to call the long distance operator and place a request
for
your call. When your turn came up, they would call you back.

Trying to call from a pay phone at a rest stop on a motorway was a comedy
routine straight out of Monty Python. The operator needed the area code
and number of the phone I was calling from to place the call.

In those days, there were no area codes on the phones themselves nor was
there
any marking on the phone as to where I was or the exchange it was on.
All I knew was that I was at a rest stop a tour bus had made somewhere
between London and Bath.

Another time, I wantedto leave a message on an answering machine, as in
"look up the EUROPEAN size you want and I'll call you from Paris when I
can buy it". After ten minutes of standing at a pay phone in a B&B, the
oeprator finaly got through and as soon as he heard the recording, he
hung up.

Geoff.

In 1984 in the UK, you could direct dial any country in the world. I worked
for an American company then, and was on the phone to them in California
from our UK office virtually every day, as well as to our offices in France,
Germany and Holland, and customers in other countries. There were some
restrictions on direct dialling from payphones, and maybe trans-continental
was one of them, I don't remember for sure. If you could not find an area
code and exchange on a payphone, then either it was *extremely* badly
vandalised, or you weren't looking in the right place. Most had the phone
box's details, including geographical location, area code, number and
exchange, behind an armoured glass plate, mounted on the wall. The number
and area code should also have been on the phone itself, if it was a dialup
type, but this was admittedly often missing.

Arfa

 

[Cydrome Leader]

Meat Plow <mhywatt@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:44:09 -0400, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Meat Plow wrote:

I could whistle at 2600hz and hang up the central opertator line. I
made a blue box for a friend but he got busted before he used it. He
was a greek with dual citizenship and had a girlfriend in Greece he
would call using a reel to reel tape with some prerecorded tones on it.
He got the idea from one of his greek buddies that was here visiting
that built a working blue box and recorded the tones and their
sequences on tape. The box was easy to build, all tin can 741 op amps
on a self etched PC board. Problem was tuning it, I was only 17 back
then and had no way to tune it. Said friend was set to take it to
school electronics class and tune it when the FBI hauled him off one
early morning in his boxer shorts He was deported back to Greece and
lost his US citizenship.


Even 'Dr. Johnny Fever' knew not to mess with the Phone Cops! ;-)

They found out in part by talking to his girlfriend. She explained that
he used a tape device. I stayed at his place the night before so i was
there at 6 am Sunday morning when they came a knockin on his door. I was
zipped up in a sleeping bag peering through an opening when he answered
the door (had a safety chain) opening it part way just enough for an arm
holding a gold badge to pop through I stayed in the bag while they
looked for a tape device which he didn't have there at the time. They
found a loop of tape on an Echoplex tape delay box for guitar that he had
and un-looped it with a pencil thinking they found the evidence They
asked him who was inside the sleeping bag and he said just a friend and
they never bothered me. He had hid the blue box pretty well and it wasn't
found because they found the tape quickly so they were satisfied they had
what they were looking for. When they left I dug out the blue box and
destroyed it. Since they really had no evidence of a device that could
make the calls but knowing the calls came from his number back when he
was living with his parents they could only deport him and revoke his
citizenship. He never went on trial for the calls. Just was given a plane
ticket and said see ya later. They probably made it impossible to get a
visa back into the country since I never saw him again. But he did call me
maybe 10 years later from Greece. He said he was in a friends recording
studio. That was in 1982.

that's amusing.

in the early 90s I recall red boxes still worked in some parts of Chicago.

You'd frequently get an operator who would ask something scripted like
"are you using an illegal dialing device?" and then they'd keep requesting
that you add quarter to the payphone.

They'd even ask you to "please wait by the phone" if you just kept jamming
on * and 6 or whatever the buttons were emulating a quarter.