Universal Remote

Anyone use a universal remote with this box.

I am after buying a remote, but as it's not a common brand I am concerned about compatibility.

Let me know if anyone has had any success with universal remotes with these boxes.
I presume I would have to buy a learning remote rather than one where you type in codes.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Ta.

My phone (samsung s7) doesn't have infrared sensor though.

I just went to the local pound shop. Bought a cheap and cheerful omega universal remote (£8). Spent hours trying all the code searching to no avail. I couldn't find a single code that was usable to any degree.

In the end I just used the universal remotes learning function. But that was fun as the dinobot infrared beam repeats super rapidly. The learning mode only picks up a single press. So every button took a lot of multiple attempts as I had to try and make the dinobots remote flash once and not multiple times. No easy feat.
All sorted now, and now I have a remote that isn't stupidly large, or doesn't annoyingly click too loud on button presses.

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It will do for now until I buy a posher one.

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To further add to this post and to possible aid other people with their experiences with universal remotes on the plethora of sat boxes.

So I bought another universal remote this week.

One For All Essense 2. (should have bought the essense 4 as that has play/ff/rw/pause buttons etc - i don't really need them functions though.)

So here is how I got it setup on my dinobot 4k. - Because the instruction booklet and the instructions on the one 4 all website are a load of crap.

First of all none of the codes provided work 100% out of the box.

Search method.

Hold Magic button 3 secs.

Press Mode to go to sat

Press 9 9 1

Press Power

Keep pressing Channel + until your sat box goes off.

I eventually found a code that turn off my box.

Reveal Code

To know what this code is (again their website doesn't tell you this)

Hold Magic button 3 secs

Press 9 9 0

Then hold these buttons down and count the flashes. 1 2 3 4

So the code I got mostly working was 1886

Direct Code Input

To manually enter this code without having to press channel + about 200 times.

Hold Magic button 3 secs

Select Mode (sat)

Type in code. i.e 1886

Extended Function Codes

Now some of these buttons are incorrect (about 6 of them) but we can reprogram these using 'extended function codes'

To enter and test an 'extended function code', it first needs an initial box code. In my example 1886. Set up as explained above.

Extended function codes range from 0-255 and then repeated there after with the same numbers. i.e 256 = 0, 257 = 1 etc etc

To quickly test an EFC, press macro once then enter a 5 digit code. Preceded with zeros if need be.

I personally just went through 00000 - 00255 on my box and noted down what each EFC did, with the help of enigma2 (hotkey/button setup plugin)

So for the One For All Essense 2 - Code 1886 - The codes I found for my dinobot 4k are.

To remap a button

Hold Magic button 3 secs

Select Mode (sat)

Press 9 9 4 (led will flash)

press macro

Enter 5 digit EFC code

Press button you wish to assign it 2. (led will flash twice)