I'm afraid that I haven't ever run into this. Did you learn the codes for the Scientific Atlanta cable box's remote to SAT without entering in any code, or did you re-assign SAT to use cable box codes and give it a code for Scientific Atlanta? It's just a guess and could be way off base, but it is possible that if the SAT device is set to accept cable remote codes, some of the Hughes commands could be hard to learn. If you haven't done so already, you might also quiz Outlaw Tech Support . Also, I'll offer a suggestion that I often give 950 owners - the 950's manual is a pretty good resource for the included remote, but Universal Remote also has a pretty large remote manual dedicated to it that can be really handy.