February
10th 2005
Sony RM-AV3000 Key Repeating

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I’ve had a Sony RM-AV3000 for quite some time now, and it is a great remote. I’ve only had one complaint ever since I programmed it to control my Xbox by learning from the Xbox remote.

That complaint was: when you hold down a learned button, the remote does not repeatedly send out IR codes. I had to keep hitting the down arrow in XBMC for example to scroll through my movie or music collection. Not only did I have to keep pressing it, I had to deal with a small delay before the remote would respond. It was very frustrating scrolling down 50 items to find something. So frustrating, that I ended up using my original Xbox remote all the time - you could just hold down, and it would keep scrolling as one might expect.

Now I’m well aware of Remote Central and their review of the RM-AV3000 which contains great programming tips, but unfortunately I couldn’t find the answer to my problem. I Googled a whole lot - nothing.

So, last night as I was playing with my SqueezeBox and again starting to get frustrated with my lack of button repeating, I decided to change the way I had the remote learn the IR codes. Normally, I’d just set it to learn and then press the button on the original remote quickly (otherwise, sometimes it would learn 2 codes so a single up arrow would be up-up). I decided to just mash the button down on the original remote until my RM-AV3000 was done learning.

The result was surprising: success! The trick is to just hold down the original remote’s button until the “learn” item on the RM-AV3000’s LCD disappears. I’m not going to guess why this works, as I’ve had trouble with holding down the original remote button for shorter amounts of time and getting unwanted button repeats.

Anyways, I hope somebody else with a RM-AV3000 can find this information and method useful in fixing their learned codes.

5 Responses to “Sony RM-AV3000 Key Repeating”

  1. Schreurs on 16 Feb 2005 at 11:06 am #

    I think Chris likes boys.

  2. chris on 16 Feb 2005 at 12:41 pm #

    I only have eyes for you baby.

  3. Schreurs on 17 Feb 2005 at 12:25 pm #

    I like your News page. I’ve been playing around with RSS feeds in Firefox and using them as live bookmarks. How difficult is it to write a page that uses RSS feeds like yours? Mind you I can’t code my way out of a wet paper bag, so simplicity is quite important.

  4. chris on 17 Feb 2005 at 1:09 pm #

    It is more of a challenge than a wet paper bag ;) I did a writeup here of how mine works. Mine is unnecessarily complicated right now.

    Unless you really want to have them on a public webpage somewhere, I’d recommend checking out Thunderbird’s support for RSS feeds as folders… I’ve played with it and it seems really nice.

  5. DJ on 30 Nov 2005 at 11:22 am #

    I have that remote also . It’s been learning and operating for me fine with the same method you described ..

    Until yesterday!

    I bought the eHome infrared remote/receiver for microsoft media center 2005 . And the NR-AV3000 will _NOT_ learn any commands from it. The closest it will get is allow you to press the button once, then it stops working until you hit another button. You can’t hit the same button twice . Grrr it’s annoying. Anyone want to buy a cheap NR-AV3000?