Hi everyone,

I'm so bummed I missed the empeg meet!

Anyhow, my GF and I both have empegs (2a) and have the sleds installed with OEM tuner modules. We have a problem when either of our players is plugged in to her car. Both players seem to work fine in my car.

Symptoms:

After a seemingly random period of time, from 10 seconds to 4 minutes after booting, the player starts doing things on its own:

1. Shuffle and unshuffle, some times very fast and continuously.
2. Mark and unmark tracks.
3. "Hate" tracks (I don't know if it does other tweak order commands).
4. Adjust volume (always UP!).

This is very similar behavior to genexia's IR receiver problem, but because it is happening with two players, and only in one sled, I am suspecting that the player is receiving commands from the Sony stalk interface. Neither tuner has a remote plugged in to the jack.

Is there some way (in Hijack, perhaps), to disable the tuner module to see if we can isolate the problem to the tuner module? In her installation, it is quite difficult to unplug the tuner from her sled and I'd like to avoid that kind of testing if it can be simulated in software.

Finally, if the tuner module is flakey, what would be the likely cause of this kind of behavior? Could it be fixed?

Thanks in advance, everyone.

Jim

[Hijack]
stalk_enabled=0

Hmm. I didn't see it in the FAQ

Actually, come to think of it, silly me, isn't that just an option in the "Configure Player" screen of Emplode? Left, Right, or None?

Yep, I checked that, even though I thought it would be pretty odd that the IR problem would only happen in one of two sleds (with two different players)...

Ah, thank you. I will give that a shot.

If either of those solutions works for you (the hijack entry, or setting "none" in the configure player screen), please let us know which one. If so, I'd like to add it to the FAQ entry about the IR problem.

The hijack entry did not change the behavior. I'll be able to test the emplode setting later.

If this does turn out to be the tuner, as I expect it will, does anyone out there repair tuner modules?

Thanks again,

Jim

Connect with emplode, go to the Configure menu entry, and turn off the Sony stalk control feature, then do a sync.

I checked both players. Both had the stalk option set to "none" (or whatever it is) in emplode when they were exhibiting the problems.

I used the hijack option to disable stalk input and have tested it with one of the players. It seems to have "fixed" it. I haven't tried the second player yet.

That seems to prove the theory that the odd behavior was inputs from the tuner's stalk interface, even though no stalk was attached. It still leaves the question: is the tuner module faulty?

I have a steering wheel to sony stalk adapter for the car, but I don't want to rip everything apart to install it if the tuner module is bad to begin with.

If there is a problem with the tuner module, any ideas what it could be? Can this be fixed?

Thanks again everyone for the help!

Jim

Okay, adding this to the FAQ entry now.

Yep. Sounds right. I couldn't get the "none" thing to work, either, which is what prompted my request to Mark to add the hijack option. If anyone *does* figure out what's wrong with the tuner to cause this, I wouldn't mind knowing the answer, too.