{"id":271,"date":"2008-06-12T13:51:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T20:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/?p=271"},"modified":"2009-04-06T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T23:25:04","slug":"enabling-rf-with-an-hr20-or-hr21-remote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2008\/06\/enabling-rf-with-an-hr20-or-hr21-remote\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling RF with an HR20 or HR21 Remote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Switching an infrared (IR) remote to work via radio frequency (RF) has a pretty huge benefit: It’s not limited to line of site, but can go through walls, floors, cabinet doors, into closest, etc. So the receiver (in this case a DVR) doesn’t need to be sitting out roughly where the TV is.<\/p>\n

For years, we’ve been selling an easy-to-use and inexpensive RF remote converter<\/a> that takes an IR remote and basically makes it work through walls. It’s amazing.<\/p>\n

But many newer DirecTV products, including the HR20, the HR21, and the HR21 Pro, come with remotes that can do RF, with just a configuration change. Here’s what you need to do:<\/p>\n

Press Menu<\/strong> on the remote to bring up this screen:<\/p>\n

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Choose Parental, Fav’s & Setup<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Then, choose System Setup<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Navigate down to Remote<\/strong>, then over to IR\/RF Setup<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Flip from IR<\/strong> to RF<\/strong>. Continue.<\/p>\n

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Now, you’ve set the DVR to receive via RF. Then you need to tell the remote to send in RF, and you’re all set.<\/p>\n

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Here are those directions:<\/p>\n

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  1. Press and hold MUTE<\/strong> and SELECT<\/strong> keys until a light above the mode switch on the remote flashes twice.<\/li>\n
  2. Enter 961<\/strong> using the number keys, then press CHAN UP<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  3. Enter 290314<\/strong> using number keys, then press SELECT<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  4. Press SELECT<\/strong> on Done.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    [UPDATE\/EDIT: The numbers you enter will depend on the receiver identification number of your specific unit. Replace the numbers we use above with those that your receiver generates in the on-screen instructions.]<\/p>\n

    DirecTV does say you may need to do this more than once. It definitely works, but who thought of that command sequence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Switching an infrared (IR) remote to work via radio frequency (RF) has a pretty huge benefit: It’s not limited to line of site, but can go through walls, floors, cabinet doors, into closest, etc. So the receiver (in this case a DVR) doesn’t need to be sitting out roughly where the TV is. For years, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}