[Barrykgerdes]

Hi
Sorry for getting away from the telescopes.

But on the 18th March the all the Australian capital city TV stations changed frequency and we have been advised for weeks about how to re-tune your TV.

Three days before this happened my TV remote control failed. No not batteries, completely dead. I can do most of the functions from the TV but while I could access the installation menu, to re-tune requires the input of the password and there is no local arrangement for entering numbers!

At great expense ($80) I managed to get a universal controller with a quite complex arrangement of programming via the USB on the computer. Alas my main computer is XP and the controller program failed to install. However my second attempt on the W7 laptop did work.

After about 4 attempts getting better each time I managed to get the program to clone the new controller, and Eureka ! It works. I have now managed the all important re-tune and I can comfortably control the TV from my bed!

Barry