X10 Wireless Technology IR32A Setting Up Your Favorites, Setting Up X10 Devices, Description

Setting Up Your Favorites, cont.

Setting Up X10 Devices

Note: “Triple tap” name entry works in a similar fashion to text	The IR32A IconRemote - coupled with other X10 Home
entry on a cell phone. Tap each numeric key to cycle through	Automation Modules - gives you the ability to control every-
ALL caps, numbers, and lower case letters. E.g., repeatedly	thing electrical in your home. Once you set up your remote, you
pressing the number 2 key cycles through A, B, C, 2, a, b, c.	can control most any electrical device from the remote, using
	the keys that have been configured for X10 Home Automation
Pressing the 9 key cycles through W, X, Y, Z, 9, w, x, y, z. A
	Modules.
“space” can be selected with the 0 (zero) key. The number 1
	Description
key selects 1 . @ ? ! - & and :. You can backspace an entry
with the key to the left of the 0 (zero) key. Press OK to confirm	X10 Home Automation systems use three types of signals -
your new name.	Infrared (IR), Radio Frequency (RF), and Power Line Carrier
(6)	(PLC). The IR32A remote can send either IR, RF signals, or
You can continue to add favorites, up to	both, depending on how you’ve set up the remote to control
	different equipment.
a total of 10 (You can add more later; see

page 38.) At screen (6) you choose if the		Setting Up Your Remote to Send RF commands
favorites you just set up are stored in the
“His” group or the “Hers” group. Later		When the IR32A is in X10 mode, it transmits RF commands to
you can set up favorites in lots of		X10 devices that respond to RF signals. The following example
different Groups, not just His and Hers.		describes how to use RF to control a TV (so you can control it
Selecting His takes you to screen (7)		from anywhere in your home). Keep in mind that when you set
showing that you now have NBC set as		up a non RF device to be controlled by RF signals, you need to
the first favorite in the His Group (at the	(7)	use a device like the RE549, which converts the RF signals it
		receives back in to IR signals to turn the TV on or off (see
location next to Side Key K1), as well as
		pages 50 and 51 for more details).
any other favorites you set up. (Note,
		•	Press Home.
you can reorder, i.e., move the positions
of the logos later.)		• Select Setup using the Side Key.
		•	At the following screen select More
			using the Side Key.
When you’re finished setting up your		•	At the following screen select
favorites, press the HOME key (located			Wireless.
		•	The Mode screen appears; select the
to the left below the screen) to go back
			Device you want to set for RF by
to the Home screen.
			pressing its Side Key. (In this example,
At any time you can press the FAVORITE key			it’s TV.) The RF symbol appears on the
			TV icon. Press OK to Save.
and then select His, or press the His key at
		Note: After following the above steps,
the top left hand side of the remote to go
to screen (7) above. Pressing the key next		when you make selections in TV Mode,
		you will notice that the transmit signals at
to the NBC logo will (in this case) change
	X10 Macros	the bottom of the screen are now Green.
the channel on your Cable box to NBC (in
		This indicates that the remote is sending
this case channel 4).
		RF and IR to the TV. If the signals are in
Note: See page 19 “Using the Remote” for		Red, it means that the remote is transmit-
		ting IR only.
related His and Hers features.
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