[57]

Please see posts 1, 27, 28 of this thread to which your posts were moved. There are also instructions on the Bell website. For any new remote you usually have to programme in the appropriate code for the TV for the remote to control it, or use the scan method to find the appropriate code for the TV.

 

[Whitey Anderson]

Edit by 57. Please see posts 1, 27, 28 of this thread for basic instructions. If you need more, please read the operating manual for your STB since it also has instructions for the remote. If you still have issues, feel free to post here.

See also the following regarding UHF remotes:

BellTV Remote Control Discussions - Please read Post 1


Need to program remote for your TV ?
These usually work
1- press and hold top tv button till all 4 light light up
2- enter code from the table in the manual
3- press #

Remote will flash 3 times ....done

Popular codes
Sony 500
Sanyo 683
Samsung 516
Jvc 557
Citizen 720
Daewoo 719
Hitachi 585

Perform a device scan to test all codes:
All other tv's ( while tv is on )
1-Press and hold top tv button till all 4 light light up
2-Press (tap) the scroll up button repeatedly til tv shuts off and press one more time
3-Press (tap) the scroll down button one or twice slowly to get tv to go back on.
4- press the # button and remote will flash 3 times... done

Vcr is the same method.

Thank you. This is and was the first and only time that I have had to put in the 516 code for the Samsung. It has always worked just by using the Bell Receiver default # 1 as it automatically set the TV power, volume, and mute. I did as suggested and now they are working. Granted I have been through several receivers and my Samsung is a 10 year old 50 inch plasma that is still just like the day I bought it. It just refuses to die and let me buy a new one. Thanks again, all is now good.

 

[17671]

What do u mean by "It has always worked just by using the Bell Receiver default # 1 as it automatically set the TV power, volume, and mute." Do you mean the remote always worked with your TV out of the box without you programming it to your TV set? if so thats called a "fluke" or "good luck" as maybe they pre-programmed it to that manufacturer in the factory when they did QA tests on it and never reset it back to Coide 0. Care to elabourate?

 

[Whitey Anderson]

As I said earlier I had not had to program in the Samsung code before with a new remote and nor did I have to for my wife's cheap bedroom TV. I did as was directed on here and it now works fine on the plasma. I can't explain it.

 

[17671]

Well then you got "Lucky" its called a FLUKE. Chances are they were once programmed with the code for your TV Set brand from the factory, probably NOT INTENTIONAL. maybe later on during production they added in a process to make sure the programming was actually "blanked out" or the code changed during mid production.

 

[Smashby]

Yes. Tab has been changed. I have like 5 different remotes here and it will change if the tab is in IR. Just not UHF. Did they make some 9241 receivers without uhf capability?

So in doing some more research it appears that there are some 9241 receivers out there that do not have UHF capability. Can anyone suggest to me what i should do to get uhf? i have the receiver in a cabinet in my camper and would like to be able to control the receiver without leaving the door open.

 

[Smashby]

I've gone thru like 3 9241 receivers here trying to find a receiver that will work for me at our camper. One has a hard drive problem but has UHF capability.... one has an HDMI connection problem but has UHF capability, and the 3rd one works perfectly but doesn't have UHF capability. If there is anyone that does receiver repair work near Saskatoon could someone suggest on here?

 

[57]

@Smashby : Get yourself an IR extender or IR blaster. One piece sits outside the cabinet (eye) and the cable goes to the front of the device you're trying to control.

 

[jdevlin]

Take the hard drive out of the non UHF unit and put into the UHF one.

 

[Smashby]

@Smashby : Get yourself an IR extender or IR blaster. One piece sits outside the cabinet (eye) and the cable goes to the front of the device you're trying to control.

I think I bought this off amazon and the issue for me is that if I’m outside the camper it still can’t change the channel. Essentially I really need a way to have uhf capability. Unless there is a IR extender that has 2 eyes. (One for inside the camper and one for outside)

 

[Smashby]

Take the hard drive out of the non UHF unit and put into the UHF one.

Now this sounds like an interesting idea. Is there anywhere online that someone can point me towards what the guts of a 9241 looks like? I wouldn’t know what the hard drive looks like

 

[jdevlin]

Now this sounds like an interesting idea. Is there anywhere online that someone can point me towards what the guts of a 9241 looks like? I wouldn’t know what the hard drive looks like

It looks exactly like a computer hard drive. Take the cover off. It is right there in the center of the unit in a bracket that also holds a fan.

 

[BellSatTV]

I have Bell Satellite TV on HDMI 2 and a ROKU Box on HDMI 3 with my Samsung TV. When I press the HOME button on ROKU, the Samsung TV automatically switches to HDMI 3 and I can watch the ROKU, which is a very cool feature. If I want to switch back to Bell Satellite on HDMI 2 I have to manually use the Samsung TV remote, press the Source button and scroll down to HDMI 2.

My questions is, can I program the Bell Satellite 9400 remote to automatically change my Samsung TV Input back to HDMI 2 without having to manually do it?

Thank You.

 

[ExDilbert]

This is probably due to a design flaw in the 9400. The issue is that the 9400 never shuts off the video, it just blanks it. The TV is set to sense a newly active video input. That's why is switches to the Roku automatically. Since the 9400 video never shuts off the feature is defeated. One way to make it a little easier is to program the TV into the 9400 remote. That way, the 9400 remote may control the TV input and it won't be necessary to switch remotes. I say may because non-programmable universal remotes rarely fully implement the feature set of product remotes.

The other option would be to use a Harmony remote such as the Harmony 665. It's selling now for about $70. They are usually a lot cheaper during Black Friday sales.

 

[17671]

You can program the Bell Satellite remote to control your TV input, infact it might alerady be progammed to do so, but you can NOT get it to do it automatically or make a macro if that is what you are trying to achieve. Bell Satellite technology has been around for a long time as as ExDilbert mentioned, the satellite boxes never really shut down even when you power it off, there is still video being output on the hdmi port, its just a screen saver. So chances are most modern tvs have a HDMI CEC mode which when it "detects" a new hdmi signal being turned on it switches to that input, this will NEVER happen with bell.

The only way to change inputs with bell is to put the remote in "TV" mode and use the audio/video input button to toggle inputs of your tv. then you have to remember to put the remote back into "Satellite" mode to continue using the satellite function of the Bell remote. There are remotes that can do it a bit easier, I have successfully re-programmed an unused Rogers Digital Cable remote in the past to control our tv as well as bell satellite back when we were customers, and the rogers remote has an independent input tv/video button which will work to change the tv input regardless of which mode the remote is in, which makes things easier. trust me, i spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to achieve such functionality on the bell satellite remotes but simply gave up as i never got anywhere.

 

[DHBoogieman]

I don't think they are listed in the booklet...

You can always do a power scan...

Press TV light until all topight flashes... Press the POWER button, then the up arrow key until the TV shut off (it my take many press before it does it basically goes 500,201,502,503, ect.. If your code is 900 it might be long) then record

Worked for me with my old Panasonic plasma. Thanks! Just remember once the TV shuts off to press the # key. The TV light will flash three times.

 

[Pigeon08]

Apologies if this has been already answered but I’m trying to program my Vizio soundbar to my bell fibe remote. I already have the remote programmed to my Sony Bravia And would like to have both programmed to the fibe slim remote if possible. It’s an OCR connection from soundbar to my TV. Does anyone have step by step directions? Thanks

 

[Ykdave]

Found some old threads with similar issues but didn’t find any resolutions...

Have a 9241 that came with a uhfpro remote as well as some ir remotes

All ir remotes work fine, the uhfpro remote is working on ir but cannot get it to work with uhf.

Antenna is installed on stb, black uhf key on remote, tried uhf a and b channels. Tried changing remote addresses and it still just shows up on the info screen as whatever channel ir, no uhf

 

[17671]

my good friend had a 9241 and his receiver came with a uhf remote, i know it worked because at one point his neighbour had a bell receiver too and they were somehow on the same frequency so his neighbours remote was changing his channels and vice-a-versa his remote was changing his neighbours channels, quite funny but it must have been frustrating for both of them until they talked to each other about it one day and discovered the problem and a quick call to bell solved it, so yes if its not working maybe give Bell a call they offer support for remote control issues like that.

 

[57]

Check the early posts of this thread. Especially post 28?