rf or ir?

[shadowsa]

i have an catv box but my original remote is broken and i dont have it anymore, i bought an universal controler from evergreen eg-lr100 unfortunately i had to find out on te hardway my reseller wont take it back i payed about 60 usd for it, and i it wont work with my universal remote, evnen tough it has a learning option but this requiers me to have the originall one which i dont have anymore, is there a way to make it work?
i could imagine by re-creating the frequencies, but i dont know how and i dont know even if it is ir or rf signal can i determine this somehow? the box is a noname box i have no manual and it says just catv explorer made in korea, i have an laptop with ir so i could imagine that i could recreate the frequenzy and send it to the remote. but how? and wich one should i try?

thanks to all

 

[justDIY]

if it's a legit cable box, how about borrowing a remote from a neighbor, to program your learning remote with - or even the main cable office may let you use a remote while in their office, so you can program your own.

as for IR or RF, if your cable box has a little tinted window somewhere on the front, that's were the IR receiver is... an rf box would have no such window.

 

[mramos1]

I have not seen a RF cable box. But I guess they could exist. I had RF on my large Cu band unit way back because one unit controlled the large dish in the yard for the whole house..

You bought a universal remote and stepped thru all the codes and did not fined one for the cable box you have?

Sony has a nice unit for a little more that learns IR well. There is a unit I bought for someone with tons of devices and it worked on them all (all store bought), call the Cameleon (the lizard).

 

[panic mode]

did you google for

'jp1 remote'

maybe you are not out of luck