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Originally Posted by cantruchd View Post
Hi Corpernicus, great work with the keyset search! I am now able to control my "cheap" Sony label TV with the Haier TV keyset 1. However, the keyset does not provide all keys that my tv can receive.
Thanks! And yeah, that Haier keyset is pretty limited. It is using the "Aiwa" protocol (probably so named because it was designed by Aiwa, and mostly only used by them). And, it's the only TV keyset I've got using that protocol right now... You might try some of the Aiwa non-tv keysets and see how they work. (I'll snoop around for some more Aiwa/Haier keysets. It looks like "Konka" is another possible brand with matching keysets, I'll grab those too.)

So after the "searchbypower" feature, I would I like to request a "search by everything" feature, that is to emits all keys from all keysets. Because 'power' button for this device may be 'volume up' button for another one.So user can use keys from various keysets and macro to make their own keyset for a particular device.
Well, I don't think I would want to try to spit out every key for every device at one time; it'd take way too long (and there are some potentially dangerous commands as well). But I don't see why I couldn't allow you to replace the power key with other keys. (And there are keysets that don't even have a power key, so this might help with them as well.) Let me give it a shot.

And yeah, if I ever do get everything working, the macro system should certainly be a way to work around keyset deficiencies (and Pierogi bugs) by allowing you to construct your own buttons.

Edit: wow, convoluted corporate histories here. Looks like Aiwa was going bankrupt in the early 2000s, until it was bought out by Sony in 2002. However, Sony apparently didn't find the brand all that useful to them, so they seem to have slowly killed it off. Haier, on the other hand, is a giant Chinese firm working to break into the consumer electronics market; it seems that they may have started by working with other firms (like Aiwa), but nowadays manufacture their own TVs. So anyway, that's how a Sony TV might be using an Aiwa protocol, and might work with a Haier keyset.

Last edited by Copernicus; 2012-09-15 at 16:53.
 

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