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One for All EXTENDER A1 FOR URC-7780 Instructions Manual

Extender a1 for the urc-7781 digital 12 and urc-7780 stealth 12
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Extender A1 for the URC-7781 Digital 12
Contents
1. Basic Features......................................................................................................................2
2. Installing the extender .........................................................................................................2
2.1
Choosing an installation method ...............................................................................2
2.2
Before you begin .......................................................................................................3
2.3
Clean installation .......................................................................................................4
2.4
"Almost Clean" installation.......................................................................................5
2.5
Upgrading an existing installation .............................................................................7
3. Default operation and button groups ...................................................................................8
4. Creating key moves and macros..........................................................................................9
4.1
Key moves .................................................................................................................9
4.2
Macros .....................................................................................................................10
5. Modifying the default Home Theatre assignments............................................................10
6. Device switching ...............................................................................................................11
7. Shift, X-Shift, T-Shift, Shift Cloaking and ESC ...............................................................12
7.1
Shift and X-Shift......................................................................................................12
7.2
Timed Shift (T-Shift)...............................................................................................12
7.3
Shift Cloaking..........................................................................................................12
7.4
Escaping from a Shift ..............................................................................................13
7.5
7.6
Adding further actions to the Shift keys ..................................................................13
8. Temporary device reassignment........................................................................................14
9. The Light button................................................................................................................14
10. The Special Protocols........................................................................................................15
10.1 Device Specific Macro ............................................................................................15
10.2 Long Keypress.........................................................................................................16
10.3 Double Keypress......................................................................................................16
10.4 Device Multiplexer ..................................................................................................16
10.5 Pause........................................................................................................................17
10.6 ToadTog...................................................................................................................17
10.7 The Inbuilt Device Specific Macro..........................................................................18
10.8 Global use of Special Protocols...............................................................................18
10.9 A Composite Example.............................................................................................19
11. Exiting the Extender to use Magic Setup ..........................................................................20
12. Changing the batteries .......................................................................................................21
13. A few Technical Notes ......................................................................................................22
Appendix 1: Key Codes for the Extender ...............................................................................23
Appendix 2: Preparing to Upgrade an Existing Installation ...................................................25
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    Extender A1 for the URC-7781 Digital 12 and URC-7780 Stealth 12 Contents 1. Basic Features........................2 2. Installing the extender ......................2 Choosing an installation method ................2 Before you begin .......................3 Clean installation .......................4 “Almost Clean” installation..................5 Upgrading an existing installation ................7 3.

  • Page 2: Basic Features

    1. Basic Features This extender is provided in two different versions, one for the URC-7781 and the other for the earlier model URC-7780. The features in the two versions are identical and this manual covers both versions. For each remote the extender is provided in three forms, a “.ir” file for a clean installation and two slightly different “.hex”...

  • Page 3: Before You Begin

    “Almost Clean” installation. This method preserves any device setup codes that you have • installed through downloads of internet or phone upgrades but it overwrites all other setup information. As with a clean installation, it enables you to plan your setup of the extender from scratch.

  • Page 4: Clean Installation

    may then leave this new one (recommended) or reinstate your original one as you wish, as it plays no part in the use of IR.exe to customise the extended remote to your needs. Next, you should open IR.exe, download your existing setup to it and save it as a “.ir” file, so that you can recover a functioning setup if anything goes wrong.

  • Page 5: Almost Clean" Installation

    may use Change Device Label to set your desired labels for the LCD display, and Move Device to change their order on the display, but note that this does not change the Device Numbers. Next, scroll to the TV device and press the Record key (once – double keypress not required). The LED should flash four times.
  • Page 6 default setup code. The fourth press completes the addition of the TV device with this default setup code. If you had Home Theatre set up, that will have been deleted automatically when the last “ordinary” device was deleted. Let the LCD display time out (go blank) and make another long keypress of the Magic key to re-enter device setup.

  • Page 7: Upgrading An Existing Installation

    To perform this merge, open the File menu of IR.exe and select Merge Using ExtInstall. If a prompt appears saying that the data has changed and asking if you want to save it, say yes and save this pre- merge version where you wish. A window will then open headed “Select a .HEX File”. Navigate to the folder that contains the files you extracted from the extender package, select URC-7781 Almost Clean A1.hex URC-7780 Almost Clean A1.hex...

  • Page 8: Default Operation And Button Groups

    startup procedure, asking you to set Language, Day and Time. Do so. You will then enter normal operation of the remote. Select the TV device and press the Record key (once – double keypress not required). The LED should flash four times. You have now completed the basic installation of the extender for your devices, have installed and entered it on your remote and have it saved as a .ir file.

  • Page 9: Creating Key Moves And Macros

    In one important respect the new groupings correct a deficiency in the construction of the unextended remote. There, the Brightness buttons are in the Channel group and the Colour buttons in the Volume group, corresponding to their unshifted assignments. Since these pseudo-physical buttons only apply to the TV device, this appears to be a simple oversight when these buttons were added to the software.

  • Page 10: Macros

    4.2 Macros Macros are central to the exploitation of the facilities of the extender. They are created through the Macros IR.exe tab by pressing Add. As with a key move, you first select the device/key combination to which you want to assign the macro. Then use the Macro Definition section of the form to create the list of keys you desire in the macro.

  • Page 11: Device Switching

    is 1 through 12. The 73rd is X_CANCEL. Prefix letter X is explained in section 8. The other five letters select a button grouping and assign it to Device n. As an example, suppose that we have set up four devices Device 1 = TV, Device 2 = SAT, Device 3 = RCV, Device 4 = DVD.

  • Page 12: Shift, X-Shift, T-Shift, Shift Cloaking And Esc

    7. Shift, X-Shift, T-Shift, Shift Cloaking and ESC 7.1 Shift and X-Shift In the unextended device, pressing Magic gives a shift action except on digit keys, where it needs to be pressed twice as one press of Magic followed by five digits sends the IR signal corresponding to that 5- digit EFC (Key Magic code).

  • Page 13: Escaping From A Shift

    7.4 Escaping from a Shift Suppose you have pressed Magic but then want to cancel it, you have pressed Brightness+ and want to access Channel+/− before the T-Shift timeout, or your finger has slipped and you are not sure whether or not you have pressed Magic.

  • Page 14: Temporary Device Reassignment

    8. Temporary device reassignment Section 5 showed the use of the Z_Devn keys to achieve permanent Home Theatre reassignment in a macro assigned to a physical button. It is more likely, however, that you will want only a temporary change of device. This is achieved with the X_DEVn keys that were not covered in section 4. The key X_DEVn switches to Device n for all subsequent keys in the macro, regardless of their Home Theatre grouping, but does not change any of the permanent Home Theatre assignments of the current device.

  • Page 15: The Special Protocols

    The Light key still has an Escape action in the extender, as described in section 7.4, but when it is pressed as an Escape key it has no effect on the backlight. Instead it gives two flashes of the LED to show that it has performed an Escape action.

  • Page 16: Long Keypress

    selected. You set it up in the obvious way. You choose the device and key in the Bound Key section of the form and then specify the macro keys as you do for a device-independent macro. There is one important proviso. A device specific macro must contain at least two keys or it will not take effect, If you only want one key in your macro you must add the Null key from the list of available keys.

  • Page 17: Pause

    10.5 Pause As described in section 4.2, the Pause function enables you to create a delay between two specific keystrokes in a macro without slowing down the processing of macros in general. You will normally bind a Pause to a phantom key, so that you can insert that key wherever you need a pause in your macros without having it taking up unnecessarily some physical button.

  • Page 18: The Inbuilt Device Specific Macro

    Shift state but this time with toggle 7 on. On the key on which you wish to emulate an X-Shift, bind the shifted key to a ToadTog function that tests toggle 7 and if off, performs what you want as a Shift function and if on, performs what you want as an X-Shift function.

  • Page 19: A Composite Example

    To illustrate how you do this, suppose you want to put a global Long Key Press on button A. First create a Long Key Press on button A for any device (say device 2 for this illustration), with the desired actions. Then create a macro on key A with macro keys X_DEV2, A.

  • Page 20: Exiting The Extender To Use Magic Setup

    the device selection functions for Zone 1, the move being constructed with setup code 2000 and the appropriate hex command. Those on Device 2 do the same for Zone 2, using setup code 2001. I next used the Device Multiplexer to create switches between the two setup codes: Dev3 XShift-A = Multiplex, Device type RCV, Setup Code 2000 Dev3 XShift-B = Multiplex, Device type RCV, Setup Code 2001.

  • Page 21: Changing The Batteries

    IR.exe, they are the only way to perform these functions that maintain the integrity of the device setup. Initial Setup Device Add Device Replace Device Change Device Code Move Device View Code Delete Device Day/Time Set Day Set Time Volume Lock Set Volume Lock Reset All Volume Controls Language...

  • Page 22: A Few Technical Notes

    13. A few Technical Notes The extender image in the “.ir” file and in the upgrade “.hex” files has a different signature from that of the unextended remote. The 4th and 8th characters are changed to “A” for the extender. But when you upload the extender to the remote, you are required to set the Language.

  • Page 23: Appendix 1: Key Codes For The Extender

    Appendix 1: Key Codes for the Extender This appendix provides three tables that between them give all the key codes used in the extender. Table 1 gives the codes for the physical buttons and phantom keys, all of which are available either unshifted (plain) or with Shift or X-Shift.
  • Page 24 Table 2 – Device assignment keys and the T-Shift and Null keys Code Code Code Code Code C_DEV1 A_DEV3 V_DEV6 C_DEV9 A_DEV11 T_DEV1 X_DEV3 M_DEV6 T_DEV9 X_DEV11 V_DEV1 C_DEV4 A_DEV6 V_DEV9 C_DEV12 M_DEV1 T_DEV4 X_DEV6 M_DEV9 T_DEV12 A_DEV1 V_DEV4 C_DEV7 A_DEV9 V_DEV12 X_DEV1...

  • Page 25: Appendix 2: Preparing To Upgrade An Existing Installation

    Appendix 2: Preparing to Upgrade an Existing Installation A setup of the unextended remote contains some or all of the following elements: Devices • Home Theatre • Device Labels • Device Code Upgrades • Volume Lock • Learning • Key Moves (“Key Magic”) •...
  • Page 26 What is essential is that Dev13 is unassigned, as it is not supported by the extender. The existence of Dev13 is because of the Home Theatre facility of the unextended remote. Its operating system supports up to 12 devices plus Home Theatre – it will not allow you to install 13 “ordinary” devices. If you have a device assigned to Dev13, you must delete it before installing the extender.
  • Page 27 should consist of four FFs (even though the default label shows as HT in the Device Buttons pane). The characters that can appear in a device label, with their hexadecimal ASCII codes, are: A 41 K 4B U 55 Z 5A B 42 G 47 L 4C...
  • Page 28 Key Moves, Timed and Key Macros These three setup features are best considered together since in the unextended remote they occupy the same region of EEPROM memory, namely F0AD–F3FE in the URC-7781 and ECAD–EFFE in the URC- 7780. The installation process for the extender copies the content of this area to its new location described above in the discussion of learning, making all necessary changes to internal address tables etc.
  • Page 29 Key Move: 0001 (nibble value 1) Learning: 0010 (nibble value 2) Key Macro: 0011 (nibble value 3) Timed Macro: 1xxx (nibble values 8 to F) where xxx for the Timed Macro can take any value as it forms part of the timing data. Key Moves and Learning have the same format in IR.exe, but Key Macros and Timed Macros do not.

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