Fav Channel Macros Are Optional; The Sidekick - Home Theater Master MX700 Manual

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FAV Channel Macros Are Optional

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The thumbpad is a Home Theater
Master exclusive control for both right
and left handed operators. When you
are operating a device with any kind of
on-screen menu, guide or display, the
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thumbpad offers you easy one-handed
control with your thumb.
Simply rock your thumb in the
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direction you
wish to
move the
onscreen
indicator.
You don't have
to look at the remote control!
To SELECT or say OK, simply press
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your thumb straight down. You'll feel
the click as the OK/SELECT/ENTER
command is sent.
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Using FAV - Favorites
The favorites menu is created uniquely
for you by your custom installer. The
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screen labeled buttons now issue
timed sequences of commands that
will reset your system with one touch.
Typically, the favorites menu is pro-
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buttons that issue all of the necessary
commands to change the channel of
your satellite dish or television. Thus,
instead of entering a two or three digit
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number (which you must remember)
and the enter command, you simply
select the favorite button labeled HBO,
CNN, TNT etc.
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The Favorite menu can be programmed
with any favorite activity. It is not limited
to channel favorites. Your custom
installer may invent a feature unique to
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Page 7 and 8 of the Owners Manual
describe how the FAV button navigates to
the Favorites pages.
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The SideKick

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Backlighting
Turn on the back-
R lighting by pressing
the LIGHT button on
the right side of the
Home Theater
Master remote con-
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trol. The backlighting
will stay on briefly,
then turn off auto-
matically. If you wish
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waiting, simply tap
the LIGHT button
again.
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* Note that your battery life is reduced
by how often you use the backlighting.
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Changing Contrast
Press and Hold BOTH the MAIN and
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the UP thumbpad button at the same
time to make the screen DARKER.
Press and Hold BOTH the MAIN and
the DOWN thumbpad button at the
same time to make it LIGHTER.
Page 9 of the Owners Manual describes
how backlighting and contrast adjust. Page
10 describes how to use the SideKick.
Basic Programming Guidelines
A channel lineup change in the future will require a service call to reprogram a
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your system. Discuss any non-channel
few pages of channel macros for your client. If the client approves the costs of
favorite label with your installer, so that
you understand how to use it.
reprogramming whenever the channel lineup changes then by all means pro-
To use the FAVORITE Menu:
gram channel macros in FAV. However, there are many other uses for FAV that
1. Press the FAV button. The top
title bar will now display FAV.
will not be affected by channel line up changes.
Use the FAV button and the PAGE
Remember the advantage of FAV. Whenever you press the FAV button, the
button to navigate through your var-
ious pages of FAVORITES. The FAV
button scrolls up from Page 1 to
MX700 remembers the device you were last on. So, when you are finished
Page 5, using the PAGE button
scrolls down from Page 5 to Page 1.
As you select a new page, the bot-
using FAV, you simply tap the MAIN button.The MX700 will return to the
tom title bar will display the page
number (page 1, page 2, etc.)
device and page you were last using!
FAV LCD buttons can do a macro with 1 to 190 steps. Thus it can issue (by
programming a MACRO of one step) any single IR command that is learned or
preprogrammed with one exception. FAV LCD buttons cannot issue an IR code
To EXIT Fav and return to the last
that must be sustained when the user presses and holds the button, like volume
activity/device selected, press the
MAIN button ONCE. To EXIT Fav
and go to the MAIN Menu, press the
up. This makes FAV the perfect place to program one step macros to all of the
MAIN button twice.
system components Power commands.You train your customer to go to FAV to
turn individual components on and off. This is the recommended technique
when the lack of discrete on and off codes makes macros unreliable.
In most systems, you will program the SideKick for watching TV or satellite.The
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Using the SideKick TM
button labelling of the SideKick is best suited for that. However, the manual
The SideKick TM
does say "typically". Sometimes, a customer may rarely watch TV and usually
remote control offers
the simplest way to
enjoy watching one of
watches DVD movies. Feel free to program the Channel up and down buttons
your favorite activities.
Typically programmed
for either TV or
with the DVD Chapter commands, the A, B and C buttons with Play, Pause and
Satellite viewing, it
does not replace the
MX700 TM , but it does
Stop.The Power On button can easily be programmed with a turn on macro
offer a comfortable,
ultra simple interface
perfect for casual
that configures the system to watch DVD's.
users or children.
The ON button
turns on your entire
home theater and sets it up to watch
TV or Satellite (whatever is your
Each of the SideKick's buttons can be programmed with the IR command or
favorite). The OFF button turns the
entire system off. Remember to hold
the remote steady and pointed at the
macro of ANY MX700 button. All can be macros, all can be IR commands, or
system until all components are cor-
rectly powered on or off. Turning on
the system may take ten to twenty
any mix you can imagine. However, there is only one "page" of SideKick com-
seconds.
TIP – You can tell when to stop
mands.
pointing the SideKick TM when
the command LED indicator
stops flashing.
CHANNEL and VOLUME control but-
tons will operate the device pro-
grammed into these buttons.There are
also three Favorite buttons that take
you directly to your three favorites
(typically channels) with one button
press. The LIGHT button will light up
the SideKick buttons for easy visibility
in low-light conditions.