V. Program Pixie cont’d
3. Test Remote and Identify Sweet Spo
t: Before trying to learn any keys, position
your remote control a few inches from the IR learning eye (upper right of Pixie
front).
When you press a key on the remote, you should see the Pixie status LED flicker
red. Notice that as you move the remote closer and farther away from the receiver
window, or as you move "off axis" (away from perpendicular to the receiver win-
dow) the brightness of the red flashes will fall off and become intermittent. Identify
a position that seems to consistently yield clear, regular blinking of the red status
LED. This is the "sweet spot" most likely to provide the clean signal that the Pixie
needs to learn.
If you do NOT see the Status LED flicker rapidly, your remote may need new bat-
teries.
Note
: Some remotes have several emitting LEDs, which may not be located in the
center of the remote.
4. Single versus Round Robin Codes
A single button on the Pixie may be programmed with either a
single command
or
round robin commands
. Single command buttons always send the same code.
Round robin buttons send multiple commands in series. Each time a round robin
button is pressed, it will send the next code in the series.
For example, a
single command
would be used for a POWER ON button. It will
always send only the POWER ON command.
A
round robin command
is used if one button on the
Pixie must send multiple
codes. For example, a
remote control may have
several input selection but-
tons. Round robin com-
mands should then be
used to associate multiple
input selection commands
with a single button on the
Pixie.
The first time the COMP button is pressed, the Pixie will send the command for
RGB1. The second time the COMP button is pressed, the Pixie will send the com-
mand for RGB2.
The Pixie
POWER
,
POWER ON
,
POWER OFF
,
VOLUME UP
, and
VOLUME
DOWN
buttons may be programmed with as many as two codes. SOURCE,
COMP, and VIDEO may be programmed with as many as four codes.
RGB1
RGB2
Video1
Video2
Remote Control
Input Selection
Module
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