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I have a very basic setup at home. A TV connected to the DVR provided by Comcast. The DVR comes with a universal remote controller, and the guy who hooked the box up programmed my remote to work with the TV. Everything is fine and dandy uptill yesterday. I lost my remote!! (Actually, I have a suspicion that the cats took it )
I have a universal remote that comes with the TV. I thought I could program my TV remote controller to work with the DVR, but I couldn't!!! I tried finding remote codes for the DVR. The DVR is Scientific Atlanta 8300HD. I found 5 codes for Scientific atlanta set-top boxes, but none of them work for the DVR. I googled but I couldn't find the codes for the DVR. I'm going nuts here. I can't watch TV
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Did you try looking between seat cushions, or under the couch?
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Your wife IS expecting, right? The DOC is just preparing you for when the kiddo is three and flushes the remote down the toilet. Or, as happened at my house, it gets "hungry" and is helpfully fed some yogurt!
Did you try calling the manufacterer of the universal remote, to see if they could help?
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If your universal remote is at all compatible with your DVR, you may be able to do a code search to find one that will work. You can find out how to do that in the user manual, which you can probably find online if you don't have it. It's worth a shot unless you find your other remote.
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quote:Originally posted by Mickey is a Moorish Idol: Did you try looking between seat cushions, or under the couch?
That's the first thing I checked. Checked the end tables, in front of, behind and around the TV, inside my laptop bag. Yes, these are the places that I usually "lose" the remote in. Yes, on one occasion, I have dropped the remote into my laptop bag, carried it all the way to work, brought it back and found it in the evening.
I have a recliner sofa, and sometimes it gets trapped where my fingers can't reach. I have to recline the sofa all the way to make it drop under the sofa. Done that. No remote to be found
I even checked the dining room, the kitchen and all the bathrooms. It is either somewhere right in front of me, where I can see it but not see it; or I have kept it somewhere really weird.
quote:Originally posted by Auntie Witch: Your wife IS expecting, right? The DOC is just preparing you for when the kiddo is three and flushes the remote down the toilet. Or, as happened at my house, it gets "hungry" and is helpfully fed some yogurt!
quote: Did you try calling the manufacterer of the universal remote, to see if they could help?
THat's a good idea. I figured out that it was lost at midnight yesterday. I'll try that today
quote:Originally posted by Beckalina: If your universal remote is at all compatible with your DVR, you may be able to do a code search to find one that will work. You can find out how to do that in the user manual, which you can probably find online if you don't have it. It's worth a shot unless you find your other remote.
Oh yeah, I remember the TV manual talked about a code search, but I remember that the process was too tedious. I don't remember the exact steps, but it's worth a shot to dig the manual out
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Did you check on top of the TV? Or in/on your entertainment center?
I have a bad habit of taking the remote with me when I get up to answer the phone, and then putting it there or somewhere in the kitchen.
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Do you have a sleeper sofa? My remote got lost for years once because it slipped in between the cushions and into the bed. We unfolded it one night for guests, and voila! Remote.
Gibbie
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quote:Originally posted by doofusmongerbeep: Did you check on top of the TV? Or in/on your entertainment center?
I have a bad habit of taking the remote with me when I get up to answer the phone, and then putting it there or somewhere in the kitchen.
I think that might be it. I have put the remote where I normally keep the phone, and my eyes scan over it. I'm sure it's right in front of me, but I can't see it
quote:Originally posted by Gibbie: Do you have a sleeper sofa? My remote got lost for years once because it slipped in between the cushions and into the bed. We unfolded it one night for guests, and voila! Remote.
Gibbie
It's a recliner. I'm pretty sure I checked all the parts, but it is possible it has gone in someplace it has never gone before. At this point, I'll have to dissassemble the sofa or turn it over or something
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quote:Originally posted by Mad Jay: [snip](Actually, I have a suspicion that the cats took it ) [/snip]
When cats take something, it's usually under the refrigerator or has disappeared through a rift in the fabric of the universe.
If you find two seafood forks and a large, silver cat-shaped earring, let me know.
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My long lost remote turned up down the back of a bookcase over a year after it was lost. At the time I turned the whole house upside down looking for it.
I dont't remember the search for codes on my universal remotes to be too tedious but cant remember how to do it without the manual.
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I lost a remote around the same time I started dating my current SO. I blamed him, but it stayed lost for a year and a half when I moved the couch and found it-- not under the couch or simply under the cushion, but inside the couch. There was a rip in a seam under the cushion that I hadn't noticed and the remote slid down inside, but the fabric on the underside of the couch was intact. And the remote was in there. Also found a spoon and a sock.
Bee
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The lost remote is a sore subject at my brother's house. We're pretty sure that one Christmas my SIL scooped it up with the wrapping paper, boxes, and other trash. Is it possible that your remote met the same fate?
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I lost mine for several weeks a while back. My apartment is very neat and orderly, and I live on my own, so I found it utterly baffling that it could have disappeared so completely.
Eventually I found it, of course. I'd been doing a jigsaw puzzle on the coffee table and needed room to work on the sky bits, so I'd shifted the whole puzzle a foot along the table. Since this left a foot of completed puzzle dangling over the edge of the table, I'd folded that part back over the top... neatly hiding the remote control underneath :-)
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If the universal remote don't work, get another one of a different model. They are not that expensive. If that fails, a fairly long stick will also work.
Try to find it where you've been answering the phone or the door. A lot of stuff tends to end up there.
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Found it!! The sofa's back is easily removable, so I removed it and it was neatly nestled inside the sofa. I blame the cats.
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