Now that I have the remote programmed and sort of working with my newly built HTPC, I have quite the remaining mystery. It appears that the buttons are recognized roughly every other time I push them, although it's not always that way.
I noticed it first in MediaPortal that I'm working on using to manage the HTPC. To see more exactly what was happening, I used Notepad, although I can only reasonably use the number keys for experimenting there.
Except for the number "1", which works perfectly every time (?!), the other numbers all misbehave. There appear to be several patterns:
1) When pressing the same number over repeatedly, it works every other time, e.g., pressing "222222..." displays "2<nothing>2<nothing>2<nothing>..."
2) When changing numbers every time, they all work, e.g., pressing "2345678..." displays "2345678..." (or "2323232" and all the other patterns I tried)
3) When pressing the same number twice followed by another number, it behaves in two different ways, e.g., pressing "22334455" displays either of the following patterns:
(variant 1) "2<nothing><nothing>34<nothing><nothing>5"
-or-
(variant 2) "2<nothing>3<nothing><nothing>45<nothing>"
This is a real stumper. I'd sure like to know what's going on in the firmware to cause this.
Has anyone else had this happen? I can't think how to search for this.
Will the developers notice this plea for help, or is there something I must do to bring it to their attention?
Holding my breath....
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OK, breathing normally again a couple hours later.
For whatever reason, and I assume it's similar to my previous problem where the Satellite DVR profile failed but the DVD profile worked, the Arcam DVD profile I chose for the HTPC was causing the "number problem". What it was, I don't have a clue, but changing to a Denon DVD profile has fixed the "number problem". Since I haven't yet tried all the rest of the functions, an abyss may still lie ahead.