Whats that row of jumpers visible when I remove the battery compartment door?
On John Wasserman’s page: http://www.John-Wasser.com/OFA/SerialCable.html he mentions that these connections are for a RS232 serial port that can be connected to a computer! However, the battery compartment port mentioned in the Wasser page is the 3-pin one found on older One For All remotes. The Cinema 7 and RS 15-1994 have a 6-pin connector. This is not a serial port; it connects directly to the on-board memory for factory programming using a special (non-PC) test system. Connecting a serial cable to it will, at best, not work; at worst, will smoke the remote. The mystery of the 6-pins has been solved by the “remote control meister” himself, Daniel Tonks (dtonks@sunstorm.com) during his trip to CES: “I got to see exactly what the six pins on the back of their remotes are used for. They One For All / Universal Electronics had a large black box sitting on a table with a few buttons and two cables out each end, one for a source remote and the other for the target. Basically, Universal s
On John Wasserman’s page: http://www.John-Wasser.com/OFA/SerialCable.html he mentions that these connections are for a RS232 serial port that can be connected to a computer! However, the battery compartment port mentioned in the Wasser page is the 3-pin one found on older One For All remotes. The Cinema 7 and RS 15-1994 have a 6-pin connector. This is not a serial port; it connects directly to the on-board memory for factory programming using a special (non-PC) test system. Connecting a serial cable to it will, at best, not work; at worst, will smoke the remote. The mystery of the 6-pins has been solved by the “remote control meister” himself, Daniel Tonks (dtonks@sunstorm.com) during his trip to CES: “I got to see exactly what the six pins on the back of their remotes are used for. They One For All / Universal Electronics had a large black box sitting on a table with a few buttons and two cables out each end, one for a source remote and the other for the target. Basically, Universal s
