Dvd Audio Solo Activation Code
Lore Dosher
I'm trying to pair my XR15 remote with a new TCL S325 TV and a Bose Solo 5 soundbar that are connected to each other via an optical cable (no HDMI ARC available on the soundbar). By holding the 'xfinity' and 'mute' buttons until the LED turns green, I can control the TV with code 11756 (not any of the other suggested TCL codes), then when prompted to pair the Bose soundbar, I can use either codes 31933 or 33708 to successfully control the volume, however the XR15 will no longer control the TV. Hitting the power button on the XR15 will only power off the soundbar not the TV. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Thank in advance!
I see it's been several months since you posted, so I assume you've figured it out by now, but in case you haven't (or if there's anyone else as frustrated with this as I was), thought I'd post the steps necessary.
The process seems to be to first pair your tv, then stop and exit the programming. After that, do not go through the "settings" route to program the soundbar. Instead, just press the Xfinity + mute buttons on their own, then enter the Soundbar code.
1 - pair your XR15 remote with your tv as instructed. When it asks if you can control volume, try the volume buttons and although you won't be able to control the volume, if you get the "tv audio is fixed" error message, that means it's trying and is paired to the tv screen. Just say "yes" and exit.
Just got a Bose Solo Sound Bar from Sam's Club. I have an AT&T U-verse Silver Remote. I've followed the programming instructions multiple times, but the (10+ yr old) unit is apparently incapable of linking with the new Sound Bar. Is there a solution available, such as a newer remote or an updated code?
The silver remote (surprised they are still giving them out) is no different than the late (black) S10. S20/S30 models exist but are no better (and in some respects worse as a universal remote depending on your point of view). So getting one of these may not solve your problem unless the S20/S30's happen to have a code for your device that works. You can download the pdf's and check their manuals from here.
The silver and S10 remotes use 4-digit codes (no category in the manual where a Bose soundbar would fit) while the S20/S30 use 5-digit codes (manual shows 23708 as the only code for a Bose audio accessory which I suppose might include the soundbar).
When questions like this come up I suggest you do a google search for, in your case with a silver, "4-digit remote codes for Bose soundbar". Maybe you will get lucky experimenting with codes you find even if not for the att remotes. Maybe not. If you had a S20/S30 and that 23708 didn't work then you would search for "5-digit remote codes for Bose soundbar".
First of all, make use of tools to check as much as you can. Tests (backed up with some reasonable code coverage) will give you some confidence of the correctness of the code. Static analysis tools can catch a lot of best practice things. There will always be issues that you need human eyes on to determine though and you will never do as good a job reviewing your own stuff as someone else, there are some things you can do to help however
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Second, document your code. Many programmers hate to document their code, but make yourself sit down and write out documentation, how to use the code and how it works. By looking at your code in a different way, you will find mistakes.
In addition to the useful tools mentioned in other answers, I think modifying your mindset it useful when doing a code review. It's silly, but I say to myself: "I'm putting on my code review hat". I do the same with QA.
Then it's important to limit yourself to that mindset. You're either the reviewer or the reviewee, you can't be both at once. So as a reviewer, I take objective notes to share with the reviewee. I don't change the code while I'm reviewing it, that's not something a reviewer should do.
The formality feels a little absurd at times, but I find when working solo that I'm often pulled in a lot of directions. So I may not necessarily close the review loop before something else comes up - that formality (and really, I'm talking rough notes in a wiki tool), is useful for making sure the review gets done. Likewise with my QA hat on, I add tickets for bugs before I fix them.
Just an FYI - these guidelines were part of recommendations in Oracle a few years ago when I was working there, where the aim was to catch bugs "upstream" before the code went into testing. It helped a lot, although it was considered boring job by a lot of developers.
You start with historical data about your work products, specifically the number and types of defects. There are various methods of classifying defects, such as this one from a PSP course. You can develop your own, but the idea is that you need to be able to tell what mistakes you are making along the way.
Once you know what mistakes you are making, you can develop a checklist that you can use during a review. This checklist would cover the top mistakes that you are making that you think can best be caught in a review (as opposed to using some other tool). Every time you review a work product, use the checklist and look for those mistakes or errors, document them, and fix them. Periodically revise this checklist from time to time to make sure you are focusing on real, relevant problems in your code.
I would also recommend using tool support when it makes sense. Static analysis tools can help find some defects, and some even support style checking to enforce consistency and good code style. Using an IDE with code completion and syntax highlighting can also help you prevent or detect some problems before you click "build". Unit tests can cover logic problems. And if your project is sufficiently large or complex, continuous integration can combine all of these into a regularly-run process and produce nice reports for you.
First and foremost, you should have a means to ensure that your code is matching requirements, and second that your code will be relatively easy to change if you decide later that you got something wrong. My suggestion would be to apply a Behaviour Driven Development approach for the following reasons:
So the idea here, is that your continuous refactoring of code even after you get your tests to pass, means that you are effectively reviewing your own code and using your unit tests as the "extra pair of eyes" which make sure your code doesn't stray from the requirements that are encoded in the tests. Also, high test coverage based around requirements ensures you will be able to change your code in the future without failing the requirements.
The real issue for you will be whether or not you're able to spot potential issues in your code that will indicate a need to refactor. There are several profiling tools on the market that can help you with this, as well as several other tools which are concerned with code quality metrics. These can often tell you many things that code reviews can miss, and are a must when developing projects on your own. In reality however, experience is the key, and once you are in the habit of being merciless in your refactoring, you will likely become much more critical of your own code. If you haven't already, I'd suggest reading Martin Fowler's Refactoring book as a starting point, and looking for a good BDD API that you feel will work for you in whichever language you have chosen to work with.
Whenever I've been in the same situation as yourself, I've tried to solve the problem of "being too close to the code to objectively examine it" by using code review / metric tools. It goes without saying that a tool cannot give the same value as an experienced reviewer, but you can still use them to pinpoint areas of bad design.
One tool that I've found fairly useful in this regard was SourceMonitor. It's a bit simplistic, but it gives a good mid-level opinion of your code, such as the number of methods in a class, and the complexity of each method. I've always felt that this type of information was as important (if not more important than) the enforcement of coding styles via tools like StyleCop, etc (which are important, but are often not the source of the largest problems). Use these tools with the usual disclaimers: know when to break a rule of thumb, and something that is all green in a code metric tool isn't automatically of good quality.
I can't tell you the number of times I have been explaining something to a code reviewer and the lightbulb in my head turns on and says, "Hey wait a minute." So I often find my own mistakes in the code review that the other person didn't see. So you could try that, just start explaining the code as if there was a person sitting next to you who was trying to understand what you did and why.
We frequently do things like SSIS packages that have similar structural needs - for code reviews I developed a checklist of things to check (is the configuration correct, is logging set up, does it use the metadata database, are the files in the standard location, etc.). You might have some things that would be handy to check every time in a code review as well. Sit down and think about what you would put on a checklist of things you want to make sure to check in your code review (First item, make sure the requirement is met, next item might have something to do with trapping and logging errors). As you make mistakes and correct them, you may add other items to the list (say something like, do I move to the next record in a loop or am I going to endlessly repeat the same first item - it only take one endless loop to teach you to look for that!). This is mostly to keep you from forgetting to do some things that should be done.
I usually print out all my code and sit down in a quiet environment and read through it, I find a lot of typos, issues, things to refactor, cleanup by doing that. It's a good self-check that I think everyone should do.
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