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FIOS Remote and Home Theater

I recently added an ONKYO Home theater and was frustrated that I could not control the home theater with the P265v1.1.

I talked to tech support and they walked me through ordering a new remote with in home agent. I recieved another P265v1.1.

I then did an online chat and explained my problem. The chat person ordered me another remote which I recieved today.

You guessed right. I now have three P265v1.1. I don't dare contact Verizon again because I am sure I will then have 4.

Has anyone figured this out?

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lasagna

Yeah .. it's called get a good universal remote instead of relying on the basic function remotes that come with the STB's. The remotes work for most basic setups, but as you start to get into home theater and other more complicated environments or those with atypical devices, they just can't be expected to be the jack of all trades solution that's required.

Check out the Logitech Harmony line of remotes -- you plug them into your PC and tell it what devices you have and how you use them to do various activities like watch TV, watch DVD, etc. and it handles turning all the right things on/off automatically. It's also fully programmable so you can make any button on the remote do just about anything you want. Haven't found anything (well short of RF based devices, although there are solutions there as well) which I can't make work with mine.

Hubrisnxs

Fios sells a four button universal remote
for 7 bucks @ www.teleproducts.verizon.com/
fios/

I am pretty sure they stopped offering them for free so you have to buy the universal.
13 or so after shipping and handling

Or if you have 30 bucks or so for a remote get the
harmony. They are sweeeeeet! Lasagna have a pretty good testimonial for the harmony

Best buy and amazon have them.

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