B & K COMPONENTS, LTD. Guide To Programming The B & K CK1.
GUIDE TO PROGRAMMING THE B & K CK1.2 KEYPAD © 2004 B & K Components Ltd. All rights reserved. The information in this manual is copyright protected. No part of this manual may be copied or reproduced in any form without prior written consent from B & K Components, Ltd. B & K Components Ltd. SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR OPERATIONAL,TECHNICAL OR EDITORIAL ERRORS/OMISSIONS MADE IN THIS MANUAL. The information in this manual may be subject to change without prior notice.
i Table of Contents BEFORE YOU START 1 Read This First! 1 You Need a Personal Computer With Serial Port 1 Close ALL Applications That Use Serial Ports - Use B&K Task Manager! 1 You Need an RS232 Connecting Cable & Adapters As Necessary 1 Keep Your Database Up to Date — USE LIVE UPDATE 1 OVERVIEW OPERATIONS 2 The Goal - Minimize Training Time and Effort 2 OF Keypad Basic Controls and Displays Standard Keypad Operations 3 Customize The Operation Manual 3 Utilizing FAV - Favorite Macros
ii U S I N G C K E D I T O R T O P R O G R A M Table of Contents Devices and Pages 14 The Edit and Label Buttons Window 15 The Edit and Label Buttons Toolbar 15 The Delete Window 16 Labels 16 Shortcuts - Copying Buttons 16 The Macro/Favorite Window 17 The Macro Toolbar 17 Re-Ordering Macro Steps 17 Macro Details 17 PROGRAMMING TUTORIAL 18 Creating, Naming and Arranging Devices 18 Open the Create and Name Devices Window 18 Creating Devices 18 Using the IR Database 20 Discrete
iii Table of Contents Learning Tips 26 Learning IR Codes One at a Time 26 Learning a Batch of Buttons Efficiently 27 Download and Test All Learned Buttons 28 Copying and Pasting Devices 28 Importing and Exporting Device 29 Importing Step by Step 29 Macro Programming 30 What is a Macro? 30 What Buttons Can Playback a Macro? 30 Discrete IR Codes vs Toggle IR Codes 30 Toggle Commands create “Point & Pray” Macros 31 Finding Workarounds for Toggle Commands in Macros 31 Programming the
iv U S I N G C K E D I T O R Table of Contents Status Messages for Impatient Clients with Long Macros 45 Helping Confused Clients With BOBS and LISTS 47 BOBS for Scrolling or Toggling Commands 47 LISTS - When You Have Lots of Components WITHOUT Discrete Power Commands 48 Controlling the CK1.2 Via RS232 49 Overview 49 Examples of RS232 Macros 49 Purpose of Keypad ID Numbers 49 ID# FF(255) is the Global Default 50 Resetting Keypad Unit ID 50 Sending Messages To A CK1.
Before You Start 1 Read This First! You Need a Personal Computer With Serial Port CKEditor will run on any Pentium II or faster Windows PC. Your PC should be equipped with an adequate amount of RAM for the operating system you use. CKEditor is compatible with the Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and XP Pro operating systems. It is not compatible with Windows 95 or previous versions of windows. Note that many modern laptops do not come equipped with a serial port.
2 Overview of Operations Overview The Goal - Minimize Training Time and Effort U S I N G Training clients has traditionally taken too much of an installer’s time and effort. Creating hand written summary sheets and instruction books for customers is a waste of time.The CK1.2 Keypad is designed to save time.With each keypad, B & K includes a pre-printed customizable Operation Manual. Unlike other keypads, this manual has nothing to do with setup or programming.
3 Overview of Operations Standard Keypad Operations Page 6 Page 5 Automatic One Touch Operation Control the Device You Are Listening To... 1. Press the MAIN button to make sure that you are on the MAIN Menu. 1. After selecting a new activity, the screen will change and display the basic commands of the device you are listening to. Simply press any button to issue the command. STOP PLAY REW FF DISC- DISC+ RNDM Touch the PAGE button if you don’t see the activity you want. 2.
4 Overview of Operations Utilizing FAV - Favorite Macros U S I N G C K E D I T O R T O P R O G R A M Although this is typically programmed as channel or radio station macros, you should keep in mind that a channel lineup change in the future will require a service call to reprogram a few pages of channel macros for your client. If the client approves the costs of reprogramming whenever the channel lineup changes, then by all means program channel macros in FAV.
5 Programming Considerations Type in Section for Title the CT610/310/600 Programming Considerations for the CT610/310/600 Keypad Feedback Whenever the user selects a new zone input, the CT610/310/600 will/can update the keypad. This has a lot of advantages to the user, since the keypad will stay synchronized even if the user selects a new input via a remote control, the front panel, a slave keypad, an RS232 macro or someone in the house uses a global command.
6 Programming Considerations Type in Section for Title the CT610/310/600 Programming the CT610/310/600 for Keypad Feedback U S I N G C K E D I T O R You are completely free to assign keypad feedback as you like. The flexibility of the CK1.2 enables you to make the system as intuive and user friendly as you can imagine. Each zone has eleven potential input changes and twenty possible keypad status positions.You must assign each input you use the correct keypad status jump.
Programming Considerations Type in Section for Title the CT610/310/600 7 3 Now, select the Keypad Feedback tab and choose the position each source will occupy on the Keypad’s MAIN MENU pages. Simply pull down the list box for each position and select one of the CT610/310/600 sources. As each source is assigned a position, it dissapears from the list boxes of the other positions.
8 Type in Section Title Programming Considerations for the CT610/310/600 BKcSuite Determines Device Layout for the CK1.2 Open up CKEditor and go to program step #1, Create and Name Devices (described in detail on the following pages). Simply refer to your notes and create devices in the same positions you recorded in your worksheets. U S I N G Source Devices Created In this example, the devices corresponding to the settings you made for the receiver are made.
Programming Type in Section Overview Title 9 Programming Overview A. Start with a New File, Existing File on PC or in an Installed Keypad NEW - Starting from scratch on a new job, go to the File Menu, choose New from the File Menu and pick the type of template you would like to use to program with. The B&K Default file has CT610/310/600 specific IR commands pre-loaded in.This is particularly useful for testing operation before any programming has begun.
10 Windows, Menus,Tools and Definitions The Programming Window A U S I N G C B D E C K E D I T O R F T O P R O G R A M A Menus and Shortcut buttons for common tasks. The Program Menu activates each task in the correct order. B Tree View of the CK1.2 Keypad configuration. Tree View enables quick navigation and powerful right click context menus. C The CK1.2 Keypad Simulator is used to navigate and to select a button to learn to, shortcut to or edit or record a macro to.
Windows, Menus,Tools and Definitions 11 The Menu Bar and the Menus Like all Windows programs, the menu bar reveals menus of commonly used tasks. Simply click on the menu title and the menu appears. Move the mouse cursor over the menu choice you wish to select and click. File Menu Configurations for particular clients are saved as files on your PC.Thus the file menu enables you to open, save and save copies of configurations. New - Use this to start programming a file from scratch.
12 Windows, Menus,Tools and Definitions another device.Typically used to program Volume Up, Down and Mute to always operate the surround sound receiver/preamp. 7. Backlight On Time - Opens a new window for adjusting the amount of time the backlighting will stay on. U S I N G C K E D I T O R T O Communications Menu Upload - Get the programming from a keypad and open it in CKEditor as a new file. Once it is uploaded, you can save it, edit it and/or export the devices in it.
Windows, Menus,Tools and Definitions 13 The Simulator and the Hidden Hard Buttons Navigating and Selecting Buttons This is the center of programming. Click on a button to SELECT it for programming. When a button is SELECTED it has a green circle around it. Once a button is SELECTED, you can use the Edit and Label Buttons Window or the Macro Window to program it. When you want to switch to a new device, first, click on the MAIN button. Choose the new device from the MAIN MENU by double clicking on it.
14 Windows, Menus,Tools and Definitions Tree View Devices and Pages U S I N G C K E D I T O R Tree View controls what you see in the Simulator. It serves as the quickest way to navigate (especially when programming macros) and enables you to cut, copy and delete devices and/or pages via the right click context menus. A Page refers only to a group of ten LCD buttons, not to the hard buttons in the same device.
Windows, Menus,Tools and Definitions 15 Right click on a page to reveal the Context Menu for pages: T H E You can delete the contents of a page, or delete the entire selected page.When you select the last page (4 of 4, 3 of 3, 2 of 2 or 1 of 1) you can HIDE a page. A page that is hidden can still be used to hold commands that are used for macros. However, the end user will not be able to navigate to a HIDDEN page, so he/she will never accidentally issue codes that you place there.
16 Windows, Menus,Tools and Definitions TEST - For learned codes. Will only test pre-programmed codes if you have downloaded to the remote. LEARN - Puts the software into learning mode, if an CK1.2 Keypad is connected to the PC (See p. 23). U S I N G C K E D I T O R CONTINUE - When you are learning a number of IR codes, use CONTINUE mode to automatically save and select the next button of that device. This saves tremendous time. See the section on LEARNING on p. 24.
17 Windows,Type Menus,Tools in Sectionand Title Definitions The Macro/Favorite Window If the Macro Window is closed, reopen it by clicking on the shortcut button on the toolbar. The Macro Toolbar TEST RECORD You must select the first step you want played back first, then connect the remote to the PC. All steps after the selected step will play back, including any delays. This starts and stops the recording of macro steps.
18 U S I N G C K E D I T O R Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title Step 1 - Creating, Naming and Arranging Devices Before beginning, you should have powered up a CK1.2, connected it to the serial port of your PC, closed any other open Windows applications that use the serial port, opened CKEditor via the B & K Task bar, started a new file, used Save As to save the file with a new name. Now you are ready to create new Devices for each of the remote controls you intend to replace.
Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title 19 4 Try the simulator out now. If you click once a MAIN MENU button, you’ll simply select the button, if you click again you will jump-link to the device group. Once at the new device group, you can touch the MAIN button to return to the MAIN MENU, etc. Both Tree View and the CK1.2 Keypad Simulator show the newly created devices.
20 Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title Using the IR Database Discrete Codes,Toggles and other New Words U S I N G C K E D I T O R T O P R O G R A M The CKEditor database is unique in the industry because it includes “secret” discrete codes that are not on the actual keypads for many components.
21 Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title 3 Brand - If B & K, select between Home Theater, Zone ID, Multi-Zone Receivers (CT610/310/600) or B & K ALL commands. If another brand, select the company that made the component (i.e. Sony, Panasonic etc.) 4 Model - Select the Model or the Code Set number (sometimes the actual model, sometimes a generic # assigned by us to a code set that operates many models over the years).
22 Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title Hidden Codes in Keypad Database U S I N G C K E D I T O R T O P R O G R A M The database used in CKEditor is the same as the one for the SR10.1 remote control. However, the CK1.2 keypad has many fewer buttons available since it’s role is to automate a system and perform basic functions only. To speed up programming, the first one to two pages of every device in the database have been updated for keypad operation.
Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title 23 Testing In most home theater systems, you will find that some codes have to be learned. You may have a brand new component whose codes are not yet in the B & K Database or you may have most of the codes for a component, but a few are missing. To find out what you’ll need to learn, you must rigorously test all of the codes you have programmed using the IR Database and correctly label the buttons that have to be learned.
24 Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title Using LCD Button Editor A U S I N G C K E D I T O R T O P R O G R A M B C D E F G A Add, Edit & Delete Buttons - Select the button location where you would like to add, edit or delete a button, then simply single click on the desired action. In fact, there is no difference in function between Add and Edit.There are two buttons to prevent confusion. B Symbol Shortcuts - Click on one of these buttons to type a symbol instead of a letter or number.
25 Type in Section Title Programming Tutorial Dragging and Dropping Buttons You can drag and drop a programmed button/label to any empty button. If there are no empty buttons, simply delete unused buttons first, then re-arrange as desired. Drag and drop requires that you click and hold on a button, then move to the new location and let go of the mouse button. Hiding Pages A hidden page is accessible during MACRO programming but the end user cannot manually access the page using the PAGE button.
26 U S I N G C K E D I T O R Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title Learning Tips Start with the remote control about an inch apart from the keypad. Vary the learning distance from one inch to as much as four feet if the code doesn’t test correctly. Make sure the remote is pointed at the red lens of the CK1.2’s IR sensor. Fresh Batteries in the Original Remote Control - Weak batteries will cause CKEditor to fail to correctly learn.
Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title 27 Learning a Batch of Buttons Efficiently Tip - Find the correct “learning distance” using single code learning before beginning batch learning. 2 T H E 1 3 1 Select the STARTING Button - Select the button that is the top left of the buttons you want to teach to. When learning a batch of buttons, CKEditor starts at the top left, moves down the LCD buttons on the left, then goes to the top right LCD button.
28 Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title Download and Test All Learned Buttons This time when you download, make sure that you choose FULL DOWNLOAD, otherwise your learned codes will not download to the keypad.Test all the learned buttons, and go ahead and correct the problems as you find them. U S I N G C K E D I T O R T O P R O G R A M Copying and Pasting Devices If you right click on a device in Tree View, a context menu appears that enables you to Copy a device.
Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title 29 Importing and Exporting Devices If you right click on a device in Tree View, a context menu appears that enables you to Import or Export a device.When you select a device, right click and select Export.The entire contents of the selected device will be saved to your PC with a new file name.The original copy stays in place unchanged. If you have some saved DEVICE files, choose Import to add the device to your client’s keypad.
30 Type in Section Title Programming Tutorial Macro Programming What is a Macro? U S I N G C K E D I T O R T O P R O G R A M A macro is a recording of a sequence of commands that is played back when the user presses a single button. A macro can have up to 190 steps. A step can be: IR Command - Any IR command on any hard button, LCD button on any device. IR commands in the IR Database are not available to Macros until they have been programmed into a button somewhere within the configuration.
Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title 31 Toggle Commands create “Point & Pray” Macros Imagine a system with three components (a TV, a VCR and a surround sound Receiver). Each has a toggle type POWER command on the original keypad. You program a macro with the three power commands on the MAIN Power ON button and tell your client to turn on their system with this button. Here’s what will happen: The client will pick out a videotape and insert it in the VCR (the VCR will now automatically turn on).
32 Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title EXAMPLE 2 - Any channel number and ENTER takes TV to the ANT A input (and the TV has 5 inputs -Ant A, Ant B, EXT1, EXT2 and EXT3) U S I N G C K E D I T O R T O P R O G R A M TV to EXT3 = 1) “0” 2) “2” 3) “Enter” (takes TV to ANT A) 2) Input (takes TV to next input - ANT B) 3) Input (takes TV to next input - EXT 1) 4) Input (takes TV to next input - EXT 2) 5) Input (takes TV to desired input - EXT 3) Programming the Power On Macro Set up your laptop and a con
33 Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title 4 Once you have all of your Power On Commands in the list, re-arrange them as desired by clicking and dragging them into whatever order you want. T H E B & K 5 Ask the client what they think they will watch most often (TV, satellite, DVD, etc.). Program steps to select the correct TV and Receiver input for that activity. In this example, both the television and the receiver have discrete input codes and the client’s favored activity is watching Satellite.
34 Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title 6 OPTIONAL - Program a jump to the MAIN page you would like them to choose their favorite activity from. This ensures that if they were on MAIN page 2, after they power up, they will automatically be on MAIN page 1. U S I N G C K E D I T O R Click on the JUMP icon. Select the MAIN device. Select PAGE 1 by clicking its button on the MAIN menu. The new step appears in the list. T O P R O G R A M 7 Make sure the CK1.
Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title 35 8 Programming additional delay in the macro is sometimes necessary. Each macro step usually takes some time, so there may be enough built in delay for the television and the receiver to both be fully active by the time the input commands are sent. Sometimes the component is not fully awake. It is fashionable for many modern televisions and receivers to require 5 or more seconds of warm up time before they are responsive to new commands.
36 Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title 9 Again, turn everything to the wrong input, then turn it all off. Select the first step in the list by clicking on it. Now, click on the TEST button. Observe the components. Did they all turn on and switch to the correct input? Continue to revise the macro with delays or changes in order and test until the macro ALWAYS correctly turns everything on and switches to the correct inputs.
Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title 37 Programming Activity Macros on MAIN LCD “Device” Buttons An Activity Macro is typically programmed to be as fast as possible. They simply select the correct input on both the television and the receiver/preamp/zone controller and power on any new components needed. There is no need to program a JUMP to a page in a MAIN LCD “Device” button.They are automatically programmed to JUMP to the Device. Sometimes activity macros will share the same input settings.
38 Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title Programming FAVORITE Macros U S I N G C K E D I T O R Programming fifty favorite channels may sound like a lot of work, but if you take advantage of CKEditor’s time saving capabilities, you can program all fifty in five minutes or less! First, get a program guide for the satellite service or Cable TV provider your client uses. Have them mark their favorites for you. Use LCD Button Editor to relabel as needed and hide any unnecessary pages.
39 Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title 4 Click on the satellite # keys to record the channel number you want. If you forget which favorite you are programming, remember that the name of the favorite is displayed above the macro list of steps.You can open the Hard Button window if the IR database was used (the IR database automatically installs # commands in both the LCD pages and the Phantom Hard Buttons). T H E B & K 4 5 Add delay if needed.
40 U S I N G C K E D I T O R T O P R O G R A M Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title 2 Navigate to the device and page where the original macro is programmed. Click on the button that contains the macro. During navigation, you might click on a device button which happens to contain a macro. A popup window will appear asking if you want to insert this macro. Answer NO if you are simply using the device button to navigate. Answer YES if you want this macro copied/cloned/inserted.
41 Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title 3 Select the device that has the codes you want used from the “Punch From” List: T H E 4 Click on SAVE. Check the devices you programmed, you should see the orange PT (Punch Through) flag on every button affected on all the devices you programmed: TV 5 VCR1 MAIN B & K A U T O M A T E D Repeat for any other groups of codes as you like.
42 Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title Downloading to CK1.2 Keypad You download to both keypads the same way: U S I N G 1 Make sure the keypad has fresh batteries inserted correctly. 2 Connect the cable between the PC and the keypad. 3 Verify that the file you have open in CKEditor is the one you want to download to the keypad. C K E D I T O R 4 Click on the Download to keypad shortcut button on the toolbar or choose Download from the Communications Menu.
Programming Type in Section Tutorial Title 43 Download Failures Should you have a download failure, try repeating the download. In certain circumstances, the keypad can become locked up and might display an error message. If this occurs, do the following: 1 Disconnect the keypad from power until the display fades away. Then, reconnect to power and the PC. 2 Do a PARTIAL Download. 3 If successful, do a FULL Download. If not successful go to step 4. 4 Save your work and restart Windows.
44 U S I N G C K E D I T O R T O P R O G R A M Advanced Type inProgramming Section TitleTips Push and Hold Macros Any macro can be programmed so that nothing will happen if the button is simply tapped. You can force the client to press and hold for any time between .1 and 30 seconds to issue a macro. For most clients, this would be a bad idea since it makes things more difficult and more time consuming.
Advanced Type inProgramming Section TitleTips 45 Status Messages for Impatient Clients with Long Macros For clients who have problems waiting for long macros to finish, it is helpful to design the system to give a dramatic status message while the macro is working, otherwise they may put the remote down in the middle of the macro, frustrating themselves. This is possible for a system with UP TO 10 DEVICES.
46 Advanced Type inProgramming Section TitleTips 4 Program Activity Macros normally on all the MAIN page 2 buttons. 5 On Main Page 1, import the corresponding Macro from Page 2 to each LCD button on Page 1: U S I N G C K E D I T O R T O P R O G R A M 6 Add a page jump to each of the MACROs on MAIN Page 1 to the Devices with the IR Codes programmed in them: As you can see, when you pull down the list of devices, there are two of each device.
47 Advanced Type inProgramming Section TitleTips Helping Confused Clients With BOBS and LISTS When do clients get confused? When their system is full of old gear they couldn’t afford to replace! When the salesmen sell components without discrete codes! When the manufacturer of a cool new product blows it and incorporates hard to use, but vital features! In any event, by using CKEditor you can often solve confusion very effectively by using BOBS (Big Obvious Buttons on every page the client might need them
48 Advanced Type inProgramming Section TitleTips LISTS - When You Have Lots of Components WITHOUT Discrete Power Commands 1 Create a new device named “Power”. U S I N G C K E D I T O R 2 On the new device’s first page, create a shortcut to each problem component’s power command, by pulling down the device list, then the command list. T O P R O G R A M 3 After the shortcut is created, rename it for the component it controls as shown above.
Advanced Type inProgramming Section TitleTips 49 Controlling the CK1.2 Via RS232 From the B & K CT610/310/600 or an Automation System Overview The B&K CT610/310/600 has the ability to send RS232 messages to the CK1.2 keypad when triggered by a B&K IR command, video sense, audio sense or voltage sense.
50 Advanced Programming Tips ID# FF(255) is the Global Default U S I N G C K E D I T O R T O When you set a Keypad’s ID # you enable an RS232 message to be sent to this specific keypad without affecting any other keypad. However, the keypad will still respond to any message from the CT610/310/600 with the FF|255 prefix. FF|255 is the default and cannot be deactivated.This is very useful, since the CT610/310/600 keypad status messages are sent with the FF|255 prefix.
51 Advanced Type inProgramming Section TitleTips Enter Keypad ID# In Hexadecimal The keypad ID# must be in Hexadecimal numbering 0 to FF (0-255) where FF (255) is the Global ID used to control ALL keypads regardless of their ID#. Do not add any 0’s to a single digit number. For example if you are addressing a Keypad with the ID # of 3, do not type in 03, just 3. The ID# is followed by a comma.
52 U S I N G C K E D I T O R T O P R O G R A M Type in Index Section Title A F Activity Macros 37 Favorite Macros 4 Automation Systems 49 Feedback 5 Flags 13 B Full Download 23 Backlight On Time 41 BOBS 47 H Brand 21 Hidden Codes 22 Button Flags 13 Hidden Hard Button 13 Button Mapping 51 Hiding Pages 25 C I Category 21 ID 50 Copying and Pasting Devices 28 Importing and Exporting Devices 29 Copying Macros 39 Inserting Macros 39 Creating Devices 18 IRDatabase 20 D K Delete Windo
Index M Shortcutting To Hidden Codes 22 Macro Programming 30 Simulator 13 Menus 11 Status Messages 45 53 Model 21 T O Task Manager 1 Operations 2 Test the Code Set 21 T H E Testing 23 P Toggle Commands 20 Page 14 Toolbar 12 Partial Download 23 Tree View 14 Pin Out (serial cable) 1 Turn Off ALL TV’s 49 Point & Pray 31 Two Functions on One LCDButton 44 Power Off Macro 36 Power On Macro 32 U Programming Considerations for the CT610 8 Unit ID 50 Programming Overview 9 UPDATE 1 Pro
