Setup Guide Everything you need to get going with your new Xsight™ Touch remote control: >> Out of the Box >> Installing the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard >> Creating Activities >> Creating Favorites & Profiles >> Troubleshooting
Out of the Box Quick Look: > Unpack > Charge the remote > Get to know the interactive touchscreen > Remote setup > On-remote setup of TVs, A/V components, and other devices 1 What you’ll be doing by the end of this section: Controlling your home theater devices Unpack The first step is to make sure you’ve got the following parts in your package: Li-ion battery Cradle rest Setup Guide This setup guide Everything you need to get going with your new Xsight™ Touch remote control: Cradle base >> Out of
Charge the remote Out of the Box 2 The next step is to install the Xsight™ Touch’s rechargeable battery, plug in its cradle, and let it charge for 3 to 4 hours. ® Remove the battery door from the back of the Xsight™ Touch. Press up on the latch to release the door. Install the rechargeable battery in the Xsight™ Touch’s battery compartment and replace the battery door. Assemble the charging cradle by sliding the cradle rest into the cradle base as shown here.
The interactive touchscreen The top of the Xsight™ Touch features a customizable touch screen that can be set up using keys on the remote or by connecting the remote to your PC. To use the functions displayed, simply touch the screen where the function is. To move between the pages, push your finger along the slider bar. Multiple pages will wrap around—if you scroll right to the last page, scrolling right again will take you back to the first page.
Remote Setup Once the remote has finished charging, pick it up from its cradle. The Xsight™ Touch has sensors that wake the LCD screen up automatically (you can also wake it up by pressing a key). The Xsight™ Touch has screens that guide you through the initial setup process.
4 On-Remote Device Setup The Xsight™ Touch lets you set up your devices in seconds, right on the remote, with a built-in library of codes for the most popular models of the most common home theater devices: DVD players, plasma and LCD HDTVs, and much more. 6 Note: If you quit setup after setting the time, you can access device setup through the Settings menu on the remote. In the Home screen, choose Settings (it’s on the second page of the Home screen—use the slider bar to access it).
Try the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard! On-remote device setup supports the most popular models of the most popular brands. The EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard handles everything else! So, if you don’t see your device listed in the on-remote device setup, you can set it up using your PC and the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard. See the sections that follow for information.
Can’t find a code that works your device (or one that does everything you want it to do)? Use the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard! The setup wizard lets you enter your device’s model number to find exactly the right code for your device. If you find a code that does most of what you want to do with a device, you can learn additional keys from your original remote through the remote’s Settings menu (see the remote’s user manual for instructions).
If you’re not sure what devices you’ve already added to the remote, press the (Devices) shortcut key on the remote at the beginning of device setup (in the “What is it?” or “Select brand” screens). Use the slider bar to browse through the devices you’ve already programmed. Then press the (Home/Back) key to go to the Home screen, use the slider bar to see the second page, press Settings, then Device Setup, and finally Add Device to set up more devices.
Installing the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard Quick Look: > System Requirements > Install the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard > Launch the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard > Sign in > Connect your remote 1 Make sure your PC satisfies system requirements Minimum hardware requirements • USB 2.0 port • CD-Rom drive • Internet connection Minimum software requirements • Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (does not support Windows 2000) • Internet Explorer 6.
2 Install the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard Insert the CD-ROM that came with your Xsight™ Touch into your PC. The EZRC™ installation program should start automatically after a minute or so. Follow the CD-ROM’s on-screen instructions to install the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard. What if my CD doesn’t start installation automatically? 3 Installing 1. Open the CD and double-click on the icon shown here. 2.
5 Connect your remote when prompted Use the USB cable that came with your remote to connect it to a USB port on your computer. How do I know if the remote’s connected? Look for the green arrow icon in your PC’s status bar. If you see this error message... If you see a progress bar in the corner of the screen... It means your remote’s firmware is being updated.
Installing In the first setup screen after you’ve connected your remote, check the Upload and edit a setup from your remote option. Then confirm that you want to proceed. This tells the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard that you want to save the settings you created during the onremote setup.
Activities Quick Look: > Set up the Hello activity (all on) > Set up the Good Night activity (all off) > Set up a Watch Movie activity > Set up a Watch Satellite or Cable activity What you’ll be doing by the end of this section: Controlling your entire home entertainment system with one touch. Set up your first activities Activities give you one-touch control over your entire home theater...watch movies, your favorite TV shows, listen to music, all with the touch of a button.
1 Add a Hello activity. In the main menu, click Activities and select Add an activity from the submenu. Choose Smart Wizard Then click the button to continue. A screen appears showing you the steps you’ll go through to set up the activity using the Smart Wizard. Click the button at the bottom of the screen to continue. Activities Why Smart Wizard? There are two ways to set up Activities: the Smart Wizard and the Advanced Wizard.
2 Configure the Hello activity for your devices. Set the power on commands Once you’ve given the Hello activity the name you want (or left it as “Hello”), the next Wizard screen lets you set how each of your devices are powered on. Use the pull-down menu for each device to set that device’s power-on command. The options are: None Use this option if you want to leave a device out of the Hello activity (for example, if the device is in another room).
3 Test the Hello activity with your devices. Once your remote is ready to test, the screen to the right appears. Carefully disconnect the remote from your PC. The remote screens guide you through testing this activity. Press the power button on the next page to turn off or on your devices in this activity. 12:35 12:35 Sony TV Onkyo DVD Harmon/Kardon Audio DirecTV Satellite Box OK Read about the test The first screen gives you some information about the test. Use the slider to go to the next screen.
12:35 Through out the Activity test, point the remote toward your devices. Test the entire activity The next screen lets you test the Hello activity with your entire system. IMPORTANT: Make sure all your devices are off before you start. Also make sure your remote is pointed directly at your home theater. Then press Begin Test. The screen says “Sending” while the remote is sending the power commands. Begin Test 12:35 Reconnect USB to verify Activity.
4 Finish up the activity. If the activity worked with your remote, you’re just a step from the finish. If the activity did not work as you thought it should, you can use the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard to make adjustments or troubleshoot. Select Yes if the activity worked. Select Make adjustments if you know what needs to be changed (for example, if you noticed one of your devices didn’t turn on). Select Troubleshoot if you’re not sure what needs to be changed.
Setting up the Good Night activity (all off) 1 Add a Good Night activity. Choose Smart Wizard. Then click the Next button to continue. A screen appears showing you the steps you’ll go through to set up the activity using the Smart Wizard. Click the Next button to continue. If you’re re-accessing the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard, go to the Main Menu and click Activities. A submenu appears next to the menu button. Select Add an Activity.
2 Configure the Good Night activity for your devices. Set the power off commands Once you’ve given the Good Night activity the name you want (or left it as “Good Night”), the next Wizard screen lets you set how each of your devices are powered off. None Use this option if you want to leave a device out of the Good Night activity (for example, if the device is in another room). On Since this option turns your devices on, we won’t use it now.
3 Test the Good Night activity with your devices. Once your remote is ready to test, the screen to the right appears. Carefully disconnect the remote from your PC. The remote screens guide you through testing this activity. 12:35 Press the power button on the next page to turn off or on your devices in this activity. 12:35 12:35 Sony TV Onkyo DVD Harmon/Kardon Audio DirecTV Satellite Box OK Read about the test The first screen gives you some information about the test.
12:35 Through out the Activity test, point the remote toward your devices. Test the entire activity The next screen lets you test the Good Night activity with your entire system. IMPORTANT: Make sure all your devices are off before you start. Also make sure your remote is pointed directly at your home theater. Then press Begin Test. The screen says “Sending” while the remote is sending the power commands. Begin Test Reconnect USB to verify Activity.
4 Finish up the activity. If the activity worked with your remote, you’re just a step from the finish. If the activity did not work as you thought it should, you can use EZ-RC™ to make adjustments or troubleshoot. Select Yes if the activity worked. Select Make adjustments if you know what needs to be changed (for example, if you noticed one of your devices didn’t turn on). Select Troubleshoot if you’re not sure what needs to be changed.
Setting up a Watch Movie activity The next activities, Watch Movie and Watch Satellite (or Watch Cable), are different from the Hello and Good Night activities. For these activities, you will use the Advanced Wizard. The Advanced Wizard gives you more options to customize these activities to fit exactly the way your home theater is set up. But you should gather a little information about your devices before setting up the device in the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard.
3 Add a new activity in the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard. Choose Advanced Wizard For the Watch Movie activity, choose the Advanced Wizard and click the Next button to continue. A screen appears showing you the steps you’ll go through to set up the activity using the Advanced Wizard. Click the Next button to continue.
4 Build the Watch Movie activity for your devices. Once you’ve given the Watch Movie activity the name you want (or left it as “Watch Movie”), the next Wizard screen asks if you want to build the sequence of commands to configure your home entertainment system to watch a movie. Select Yes. Let me build the IR sequence. and click Next. In the screen that follows, enter the series of keypresses you use to watch a movie on your entertainment system.
2. Scroll through the commands available for this device. (The list also includes extended functions that the Xsight™ Touch will create if needed.) Find the key(s) that you want to enter for that device. 3. When you see the key command you want to use, highlight it and press the on-screen arrow button to include it in the list of commands for this activity. Don’t see the key command you want? If you see this screen... Don’t worry—the Xsight™ Touch will create this soft key for you.
To change the timing between commands (sometimes useful if a device needs to respond to one command before it can respond to another): click the clock icon in the second line of the command and use the arrows to adjust the number of seconds to wait before giving the next command. 5. Once you’ve built the activity to your satisfaction, click Next to continue.
Setting up a Watch Satellite or Watch Cable activity 1 Write down which devices you use to Watch Satellite or Cable. Look at the following example setup for “Watch Satellite”, then fill in the information for this activity in your home theater. Example setup Watch Satellite 2 What device do you use to... Control volume? Watch video? Change channels? A/V receiver TV Satellite rcvr YOUR setup What device do you use to...
3 Add a new activity in the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard. Choose Advanced Wizard For the Watch Satellite or Watch Cable activity, choose the Advanced Wizard and click the Next button to continue. A screen appears showing you the steps you’ll go through to set up the activity using the Advanced Wizard. Click the Next button to continue. Activities Choose the activity you want to set up (Watch Satellite or Watch Cable) The next screen shows you a list of activities you can set up.
4 Build the Watch Satellite or Watch Cable activity for your devices. Once you’ve given this activity the name you want (or left it as-is), the next Wizard screen asks if you want to build the sequence of commands to configure your home entertainment system to watch a movie. Select Yes and click Next. In the screen that follows, enter the series of keypresses you use to watch a movie on your entertainment system. Use the chart for YOUR setup on page 30 to add the keypresses.
2. Scroll through the commands available for this device. (The list also includes extended functions that the Xsight™ Touch will create if needed.) Find the key(s) that you want to enter for that device. 3. When you see a key command you want to use, highlight it and press the on-screen arrow button to include it in the list of commands for this activity. Don’t see the key command you want? See the “Don’t see the key command you want?” box on page 28 for Troubleshooting suggestions. If you see this screen.
Set the volume/channel/transport controls The final setup screen for the Watch Satellite or Watch Cable activity lets you set which devices you use to change volume and channels, and control playback when you’re watching satellite or cable. To change which device a group of keys controls, click the device listed to display the drop-down menu and select the device you want this group of keys to control. Once you’ve set the devices you want to control volume, channel selection, and playback, click Next.
Using your activities 12:35 2 3 Activities Hello 1. Press the (Activities) shortcut key. 2. When you start using your home theater—before you turn anything on—choose the Hello activity. 12:35 1 2 3 How do I know when an activity has finished? 12:35 Good Night Hello Hello Back Service PIP PIP Swap No sound No picture Need help after the Hello activity has finished? Press Assist. Then press Power On/Off to turn devices on manually. Use the slider to access more devices.
What if Assist doesn’t work? If the Assist screens are not helping you find the correct inputs on your devices, check the following: • Is the wrong device changing inputs? Make sure the input key you see on the No Sound/No Picture screen is the correct one for the device you’re trying to change.
Favorites and Profiles Quick Look: > How to make the Xsight™ Touch remote Yours > Create a Family Favorite Channels list > Create individual Profiles for each family member What you’ll be doing by the end of this section: Using the Xsight™ Touch your way, all at the touch of a button. How to make this remote all yours The Xsight™ Touch has powerful customization tools to make this remote truly your own. Favorites gives you access to your Favorite Channels and settings for the whole family.
1 Set up your favorites. In the main menu, click Favorites and select Set up Favorites from the Favorites submenu. The next screen shows you the steps you’ll complete to set up your favorites. Press Next to continue. Set the device you use to change channels If you subscribe to a satellite programming service, for example, you probably use your satellite box to change channels, not your TV. Choose the option that works for your home theater, then click Next.
2 Choose your favorite channels. Select a channel Click the scroll bar to find a channel you want to add to your favorites. The channels are listed in alphabetical order. Highlight a channel you want to add, and click the arrow that appears to the left of the channel to add it to your favorites. If you don’t see your channel listed... You can add it manually by choosing Other at the top of the list.
Type in the channel number When the channel icon or label appears on the replica remote screen, type in the number for the channel in your programming. Add the next channel Click the next space in the replica remote screen to add another channel to your favorites. Then follow the same procedure you followed for adding the first channel. When you fill up a page... Click the + icon below the replica remote screen to add another page. Then click the first space in that page to start filling it with channels.
3 Choose the devices controlled by each section of the remote. In the final step in creating your Favorite channels list, you set what different groups of keys control by default when you’re using your favorite channel list. Set this screen for the way you usually use a remote while watching your favorite channels. These settings will serve as a starting-point for individual profile settings.
Creating Individual Profiles Once you’ve created the Favorites list, you can create individual profile lists for each member of the family. If you select Yes from the final screen of the Favorites setup wizard, you’re ready to start creating your first profile. 1 If you selected No: Choose Favorites from the Main menu and select Add Profile from the submenu. Add your Profile. The first Create Profiles screen shows you the steps you’ll complete to set up your profile. Press Next to continue.
2 Choose the channels for this profile. Click the scroll bar to find a channel you want to add to this profile. Highlight a channel you want to add, and click the arrow that appears to the left of the channel to add it to this profile. IMPORTANT: Only the channels you’ve chosen as your favorites can be selected for a profile.
3 Choose the devices controlled by each section of the remote. In the final step in creating this profile, you set what different groups of keys control by default when you’re using this profile.
Most common problems with your Xsight™ Touch can be resolved by trying one of the following solutions. If you have any further questions, please call our help line toll-free at 1-800-276-0509. Initial setup • My remote doesn’t come on automatically when I pick it up. Press the OK key to wake the remote up. Once you’ve completed the initial setup, you can change the Tilt setting by accessing Settings from the home screen and Tilt from the Settings menu. If this setting is off, turn it on.
• • • • Windows XP users must have Service Pack 3 and .Net 3.5 To find out what service pack version you have: 1. Right click on My Computer on your PC desktop. 2. Choose Properties from the drop-down menu. 3. In the General Tab, the Service Pack is listed under System. To update to SP3: 1. Insert the CD that came with the remote. The CD goes automatically to Microsoft update site if you have a working internet connection. 2. At the Microsoft website, click Express to begin the updating process.
Troubleshooting Using Favorites and Profiles • I can’t find a channel I want to add to my Favorites. You can add it manually by choosing Other at the top of the list. You can then choose to display this channel by a text label or search the EZ-RC™ Remote Control Setup Wizard library for a channel icon. To use an icon from the library (or to choose your own), select Show Channel Icon, then click the … button. Scroll through the icons available in the collection and highlight the logo you want.
Need help setting up this remote? Please call our help line toll-free at 1-800-276-0509. Use of the software provided with this product may require the most recent Windows® updates in order to function properly. Any such updates are third party software which shall be governed by such third party’s license agreement. Audiovox is not responsible for any third party’s software and shall have no liability for your use of third party software.
