Archos AV420 user manual Part 2 Testing the Emitter codes

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You can fill these in by hand. Or, if you use the My Yahoo!® personal calendar to set your recording scheduler, any unknown station name will be indicated in the scheduler with a ?. You then have the possibility to assign a channel number to the station name by clicking on the center function button Set Channel. This avoids having to fill in all the station names and channel numbers by hand.

7.2Part 2: Testing the Emitter codes

1.Tune channel select: These four parameters usually do not need to be set. Keep the default values to start with. See the table below for an explanation of each.

2.Tune device code (one code available): Some manufacturers use only one set of codes for all of their products. Their codes do not change

from one model to another or from one year to another. In this case, there will only be one single code. You can now test the channel select.

3.Tune device code (multiple codes available): Some makers of video equipment don’t use the same set of control codes for all of their products. They have various code sets for various models and various years. You will have to try each of the codes to find out which code works with your device. In the example screen, you see the code C109. If this code does not work when doing the Test: channel select, advance it to the next code and then test to see if that next code works.

4.Test channel select: When you press the Test channel select button (Highlight test channel select and press ENTER button – on AV400), the AV400 will send a signal through the cradle to the Infrared Emitter stuck to your device and changes the channel. If the Number of digits parameter is set to three, it will try to select channel 123. If that parameter is set to 2 or 1, it will send the code for channel 12 and channel 1 respectively.

5.Test ON/OFF: When you click on the Test On/Off button, the AV400 will send a signal to the TV Cradle, which will then send a signal out to

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Archos AV420 user manual Part 2 Testing the Emitter codes