How to program a 3. Xfinity X1 Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET. I am a Comcast Xfinity subscriber, and yesterday I got upgraded to the company's X1 cable box. I am enjoying the modern interface of the channel guide, the improved search functionality, and the potential to record four shows at the same time while watching a fifth. What I am not enjoying is the lack of a 3. I was able to program on my old remote.
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I have come to rely on my 3. October baseball. It's almost always the right amount of time between plays for an NFL game (except for two- minute drills and when the Chip Kelly- led Eagles are playing and have the ball), and between pitches during what can be excruciatingly slow playoff baseball games. The XR2 remote for Xfinity X1. While the process is easier than what my old cable box required, it requires a bigger sacrifice. On my old cable box, after a lengthy process, I was able to reassign a useless button as a 3.
With the X1 box and XR2 remote, the process to reprogram a button takes only two steps, but you are forced to sacrifice the five- minute skip ahead button. And as a strange side effect, the five- minute skip back button changes to a 1. At any rate, here is the quick, two- step process: Step 1: Press the Exit button three times. Step 2: Press 0. 03.
I just received the new cable box from comcast and there is no time.
Now, when you use your remote, you'll find that the page up button, which previous skipped ahead five minutes, now skips ahead 3. And the page down button now skips back 1. Replay button near the top of the remote also skips back 1. I tried other amounts of time, thinking I could enter 0. Chuck Woolery two- minute- and- two- second skip, for example, but none worked. I was, however, able to return both the page up and page down buttons to five- minute skips by entering 0.
While I don't like having to sacrifice my five- minute skip buttons, my viewing habits have me skipping ahead 3. Are you an Xfinity X1 user? If so, have you found any useful hacks for the XR2 remote?
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