Making my new DirecTV RC71 remote work with my Samsung TV and Onkyo Receiver

[ikkyu2]

My regular readers will understand that this is really not aimed at them; it's reference for me when my devices get wiped by an EM pulse and I need to reconfigure them; and it may be helpful for some random schmo wandering around the web.

So recently I upgraded to the HR 44 Genie receiver. I had complained several times to DirecTV that the

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[waider]

Item 3 is tormenting me. It has what? WHAT DOES IT HAVE????

[ikkyu2]

Haha! Sorry. It has a bunch of serial numbers on it that you need to activate the receiver.