The Tulsa market is going all-digital now, and today I downgraded my TV service from Advanced to Essential, and downgraded my cable box from the big $8.50/mo. Motorola box to the Mini Box - free for a year, and $2/mo. thereafter. Not exactly what Cox had in mind, but it works for me.
But the remote that comes with the Mini Box has tiny buttons to enter the channel number, and they are down at the bottom of the remote, which makes one-handed operation difficult. So I dug out my most excellent and very cheap RCA universal remote (RCR312WR). The problem though is that there's no entry in the list of codes for the Cox box or for "Evolution" or "Digital Multimedia Technology" that works. And the RCA requires 5-digit code numbers, so brute force isn't an option. Using the automatic search doesn't work because that works by finding which number turns off the device, and the Mini Box never turns off. So all it would find is the number that turns off the TV, which I already have.
Well, I just wondered if anyone had found a way to use a better remote with the Mini Box - hopefully not one of the super-expensive remotes. Thanks for any suggestions.
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