Ok, thanks to Mark Lord's hijack menu system I reconfigured the empeg so that the tuner button on the kenwood steering wheel remote actually starts the tuner again (since 2.00b3, in fact, it did not work anymore).

But there's a problem. I just looked at what code was sent by the rio remote to activate the tuner, and reprogrammed the kenwood one. Now, in 2.00b3, there is not ONE single button to switch between tuner and player, there are two! One activates the tuner and the other activates the player. Now, my kenwood steering wheel remote simply reproduces the Tuner button on rio remote, obviously, and this means I cannot go back to player from it. I would need an extra button to do that, losing some othe function on the remote.

Now, I have few questions:
1) Is there a singe function that switches from tuner to player and back, so that it can be associated to a single button on the kenwood remote?

2) If there isn't, basically v 2.00b3 turns the kenwood remote in a slightly less useful tool. So, may I ask empeg ppl to add such a functiuon in one of the next releases, so that those who like me have a kenwood remote can still use it fully?

3) Now, an idea for Mark Lord: is is possible to detect the HOLD status of a remote button press, and reprogram that too? For instance, in this case I could have associated the "back to player" function to the source button HELD on the kenwood player, and solve my problem.

I hope I was not excessively cryptic :D
Thank you!

SRC is the button you are looking for. It used to work in the 1.x series, both with the steering wheel remote and the handheld non creditcard remote.

It's been reported as a bug in 2.03b a couple of times, in a couple of places, however, no one on the Empeg team has positively confirmed that it's a FITNR or even in the database.

So rather than ask for them to add functionality in the next release, I'm just hoping that the existing functionality will return.

Of course, SRC toggled through ALL of the states, from player to aux, to FM to am and then back to player.

So rather than ask for them to add functionality in the next release, I'm just hoping that the existing functionality will return.


And Thanks to Mlord.... I'm going to just start referring to him as the resident deity of requests... This works.

Take his V66 kernel, replace b94613 for his codes ala:


[ir_translate]

;Multiple simultaneous translations for TapeSelect button on Pioneer vsx043

00b94613.LT=20df07 ; If longpress and Tuner active, then toggle AM/FM

00b94613.A=b9461e ; If Aux active, then select Main/mp3

00b94613.M=b9461c ; If Main/mp3 active, then select Tuner

00b94613=b9461d ; default: select Aux


and Src works again. I wasn't able to get the longpress to work, but I also just played with it... I'll look closer tomorrow.

Speaking of which, the example I posted had the original Pioneer codes wrong, so just for completeness, here is the correct version (for anyone with a Pioneer cu-vsx043 IR remote):

[ir_translate]
;Multiple simultaneous translations for TapeSelect button on Pioneer cu-vsx043 IR remote
a15e4c.LT=20df07 ; If (L)ongpress and (T)uner active, then toggle AM/FM
a15e4c.A=b9461e ; If (A)ux active, then select Main/mp3
a15e4c.M=b9461c ; If (M)ain/mp3 active, then select Tuner
a15e4c=b9461d ; default: select Aux

referring to him as the resident deity of requests

He's gained the status of Knighthood from us so I refer to him as Sir Mark.

Now, wait a minute... Wasn't Mark supposed to be away? Not only he still posts and updates HiJack, but it also adds what requested and moch more in less than one day. Mark, what can I say? Really, THANK YOU!