How to program a new L336 remote with the OSSC?

[serbusfish]

Would anyone be able to help me sync a new L336 remote to my OSSC please? The remote that came with my OSSC developed a fault and the menu button no longer works so I have obtained a new remote but I cannot understand how to make it work with my OSSC. I read that I need to hold down BTN1 when I power on the OSSC and then press 1 on the remote, however the green led on the OSSC does not blink when I do this. Am I missing something? The replacement remote does not make the green led blink at all no matter what buttons I press.

[Morpheus_79]

This won’t work, since a brand new L336 is empty/blank. The L336 needs to be programmed with the compatible IR codes of the NEC IR protocol. You can use an old TV or receiver remote your OSSC recognizes to program your L336 (some Toshiba or Philips ones may work). Or you can use an (USB) IR transmitter with LIRC/WinLIRC. There are even some older smartphones with integrated IR transmitters, which can be uses as remote replacements or to program your blank L336.

[serbusfish]

I have the L336 that came with my OSSC, how do I go about using it to reprogram the new remote? The instructions that came with the remote say I should press TV & CH- at the same time on the new remote and TV & CH+ on the old one, but this doesn’t work for me, I’m not even sure if i’m pressing the right button for CH to be honest as there is no +/- next to CH on either remote.

[Morpheus_79]

Real Chunghop L336 remotes support one key learning, to copy the whole setup from one L336 to another L336.

But there are a lot of L336 clones around, which do not support one key learning. Maybe your first remote was a clone… maybe your new one is… maybe both are clones. But if copying the key setup from one L336 to another won’t work, at least one of them is a fake one (most clone remotes don’t have ‘CHUNGHOP L336’ written on them… only ‘L336’).

You can still use the normal key-by-key learning with those fake L336. But then you’ll still stuck with the non-working menu button. So i would still recommend finding an old TV/DVD/BD/Receiver remote with OSSC compatible IR codes and use at least one its buttons as source for the menu button on your new L336.

[serbusfish]

Yeah i’ve just checked and the new remote doesn’t have Chunghop on it so I guess it’s a clone! I have managed to copy over the working buttons to the new remote, I guess I just need to find an old remote to use for the menu button. I also discovered that the up arrow on my old remote isnt working either so that’ll need copying over too!

EDIT: How exactly do you perform the 1 key learning? Because my remote did come with instructions which say it supports the feature.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by serbusfish.

[Morpheus_79]

I’ve had several clone remotes in the past. All came with a printed instruction – the same as the original Chunghop manual from here:

http://en.chunghop.com/productDetail?id=541

But on all of them the button combination for one key learning never worked. No matter how long i pressed the buttons – it didn’t do anything.
Later i bought two original remotes and tried it again. With them pressing the device and channel up/down buttons the same time made them enter learning transmitting/receiving state and i was able to copy one remote setup to another remote.

That’s how i know. The clones are still viable remotes and work perfectly fine aside from that.

[serbusfish]

Yeah the remote seems fine and all the other buttons i’ve been able to copy over work fine, I just wish I knew these clones existed before I obtained this new remote.

Can I ask how exactly I can use an old remote to find a working menu button command for the new L336? If I find an old remote that’s OSSC compatible will it just work or do I need to do something with codes before it’ll make the green led flash? Because that’s the part I dont understand what to do with.

[Morpheus_79]

You just need a remote which makes the LED of the OSSC flash. That means, the remote uses the NEC IR protocol. It is pretty common – i’ve had 3 remotes lying around (from a Toshiba TV, an LG TV and from an old DVB card) using this IR protocol.

You probably won’t find a remote, which uses the exactly same IR code for one of its buttons as your original L336 uses for its menu button.
But that is not a problem after all, since you can set your OSSC to use another IR code for its menu -> power your OSSC on while holding BTN1… as described here:

https://junkerhq.net/xrgb/index.php/OSSC#Remote_control_setup

That way you can setup your OSSC using any remote it recognizes.

So simply find a remote your OSSC recognizes (flashing green LED on your OSSC), use any button of this remote (which is recognized but doesn’t do anything on your OSSC) to program the menu button on your clone L336 (and another one for the up arrow button) and then start your OSSC with a pushed down BTN1, to make your OSSC re-learn every button of your clone L336.

This should work fine… until you flash a new OSSC firmware. After that you have to redo the last step since your OSSC resets to the default IR codes after a firmware update.

[serbusfish]

That’s brilliant now I understand exactly what I need to do, thanks. Now i’ve just got to find a remote that works!

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