Epson Bocs User Manual

Xtender

Installation Manual

Contents

Chapter 1 Welcome

Now You Can Setup Overview What You Need Basic Definitions Remote Lights – Understand What the Remote is Trying to Tell You

Chapter 2

Chapter 3 Installing the Extender

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Appendix

Installing the SuperCombiner

Locate Your Cable/Satellite TV Box Locate the Splitter Find the main Cable Feed Connecting the SuperCombiner

Typical Xtender Home Cable or Satellite System Select Location Connect Xtender Connect Audio/Video Devices Red Channel Setup Green Channel Setup Blue Channel Setup Connecting Xtender’s Power Supply

Programming the Remotes

Pair Remotes to Xtender Program Channels Program Each Remote to a TV Alternate Programming Procedures - Scanning Setting the Channel Tuning Delay

Using the Remotes

Controlling the TV Controlling the Red/Green/Blue Channels Using the Power Button

Device Codes

Television Cable & Satellite Box Video (VCR, DVD, Laser Disk, DVR) Auxiliary (Audio, Home, DVR)

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Chapter 1

 Reduce the number of boxes in your home – instead of a full stack under each TV,

 Watch any TiVo DVR from any TV

Welcome

Welcome to the World of Whole-Home Entertainment Choices

The BOCS Xtender will allow you and your family to Xtend the entertainment options from your main system to all the TVs in your home. This sounds like a simple proposition, but until now you could only do this by adding redundant equipment or have a very expensive and complicated audio/video distribution system installed in your home.

Now You Can…

one stack supplies the entire home

 Pause a program in one room, continue watching in another  Play a DVD on all the TVs in the house simultaneously  Hook up an iPod for whole-home music  See what your kids are watching in the basement  Continue to view your movies or programs uninterrupted even if you need to

change locations in your home

 And much, much, more...

Without…

 Purchasing additional Cable/Satellite Boxes  Purchasing additional DVRs  Purchasing additional DVD Players  Purchasing costly and complicated universal remote control systems - all y ou

have to remember is RED – GREEN – BLUE

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What You Need

Tools

Small pair of pliers Flat-blade screwdriver

What's in the Box?

Xtender

Xtender Unit SuperCombiner Power Supply for Xtender Universal BOCS Remote Control

Xtender Installation Kit

Coax Power Adaptor Cable Finder Color Coded Combination Audio/Video Cables (3) IR Blaster Cables (3)

Basic Terms used in this manual

A/V Device – Anything like a DVD player, VCR, TiVo DVR, Cable box or

other device that you plug into Xtender to watch throughout your home

Xtender – The main Xtender device – looks like a small A/V device with

Red, Green, and Blue lights on the front

Wireless Remote – The wireless remote control that came with your Xtender

system

Wiring Pack - An accessory (purchased separately) that includes all the

cables used in a typical installation plus a cable finder tool

SuperCombiner - The cable splitter/insertion device that came with your

Xtender system

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Remote Control Lights -

When in Programming Mode – The power light comes on and stays on.

Generally you have 10 seconds to enter a command or the remote will exit Programming Mode.

Programming Success – The remote flashes the power button light two times Programming Error – The remote fast flashes the power button light for one

second

Remote Out-Of-Range – Alternating flash of power button light and Xtender

Channel lights (Red/Green/Blue) – this occurs if the remote is too far from the Xtender – either move closer to the Xtender or purchase a BOCS Repeater to Xtend the range of your wireless remotes.

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What’s on the Front Panel?

1. Learning Window Xtender has the ability to learn remote control codes

2. Xtender Activity Lights These lights flash when anyone in the home is

3. Remote “Pair” Button Each Xtender remote control must be paired to an

just in case you can’t find one in our remotes that works. There is a simple procedure to follow in the “Programming the Remote” section. This window is where you point your remote control during that process to allow Xtender to learn to control things that are plugged into it.

controlling an Xtender channel with a wireless remote control. The Red light flashes when using the Red channel, Green for green channel, and Blue for blue channel. All of the lights glow when Xtender is on, and they all flash together when you are pairing a remote to Xtender.

Xtender – this prevents your remotes from controlling your neighbor’s Xtender as well as the other way around. If you buy an extra remote or one of your remotes needs to be re-paired, just press this button then hold down the “Menu” and “Channel +” buttons on the remote you would like to pair.

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What’s on the Back Panel?

1. Power The AC adapter plugs in here – only use the adapter that

2. Reset Button Pushing this button resets Xtender to its factory default

3. Red Channel Input Composite Video (Yellow) and Stereo Audio (Red/White)

4. Red Channel IR Output A cable with a stick-on infrared emitter on the end is

5. Red Channel Video Output This is used to pass a composite video/stereo audio

6. Green Channel Input Whatever you plug in here will appear on the Green

7. Blue Channel Input Whatever you plug in here will appear on the Blue

8. Green Channel IR Output A cable with a stick-on infrared emitter on the end is

9. Blue Channel IR Output A cable with a stick-on infrared emitter on the end is

10. Local TV Out Coax cable output used for watching Cable/Antenna

11. Antenna Out Coax cable output used for connecting DVR, TiVo, Cable

12. Antenna IN Coax cable input – this must be connected directly to

13. Antenna Swivel antenna allows Xtender to communicate with

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

came with Xtender!

settings

input to Xtender – whatever you plug in here will appear on the Red channel throughout the house

plugged in here and the IR emitter is stuck onto the front of your a/V device so Xtender can send it commands from your wireless remotes – Cables available in the optional wiring pack.

signal from your A/V device to a local TV

channel throughout the house.

plugged in here and the IR emitter is stuck onto the front of your A/V device so Xtender can send it commands from your wireless remotes – cables are available in the optional wiring pack.

programs or Xtender channels on a TV located near Xtender. Note that if this output is used then one Xtender remote must be dedicated to this TV – see programming the remote.

Box or anything else that needs Cable/Antenna input. Note that Xtender channels are not available on this output.

the Coax wall outlet or run directly to the SuperCombiner.

remote.

What’s on the Remote?

Xtender Channel Activity Lights 1

Xtender Channel Buttons 2

Info and “A” 4 Exit and “C” 5

Replay and “PIP” 14

Number Keypad 16

Menu 3

Mute 6

Up 7

Left 8

Down 9

Vol +/- 10

Play 11

Rewind 12

Stop/Slow 13

+100 15

Del/Clear 17

Those Needing a Little Explanation

18. Power

19. Local TV

20. Live TV

21. Guide and “B”

22. Last and “D”

23. Shift

24. Right

25. Select/OK

26. Channel +/-

27. Fast Forward

28. Pause

29. Skip

30. Record

31. Enter

32. Cable/Satellite

33. DVD/VCR/Laser Disk

34. AUX

1. Xtender Channel Activity Lights – blink when you send a command to one of the devices connected to Xtender. For instance if you press the Red BOCS channel button, then push play the red light flashes letting you know that the play command went to the Red channel.

2. Xtender Channel Buttons – The three new channels in your home – press RED to watch and control whatever is plugged into the Red input on Xtender (same for GREEN & BLUE)

3. Menu – the DVD, DVR, or TiVo menu command, depending on what you are controlling

4. Info/ “A” –push shift/info for “A”, a button common for cable boxes

13. Stop/Slow – For most DVD players this is “Stop”, but many DVRs (Like TiVo DVRs) do not commonly have a Stop button so in those cases, this becomes the “Slow Play” button

14. Replay – typically makes a DVR go back about 15 seconds and play a clip again. For DVD it skips backward and if you push Shift first it is the “PIP” or Picture-in-Picture button

15. +100 – Shift-1 gives the +100 command, sometimes used to get to channels that are >100

18. Power – In general, this button turns your TV on and off. If this is pressed within 10 seconds of pressing a BOCS channel button, it powers on/off the device plugged into that Xten der channel (if the DVD player on the Red channel is off – just press Red and Power within 10 seconds). Press Shift-Power to power-down the Xtender system (so any Cable or Ante nna channels that you cannot watch when Xtender is on are now visible). A double flash indicates programming success, a fast flash indicates programming error, and an alternating Power and Xtender Channel lights (Red/Green/Blue) indicates remote is out of range of Xtender.

19. Local TV – After watching a BOCS channel, pressing this button returns you to watching normal Cable/Antenna through your local TV. So you know you are back to local control, the remote automatically tunes to the “Favorite TV channel” (see programming your remote).

34. AUX – Any set of codes can be programmed into this mode button but it is most commonly used for an audio receiver. Note that if you use a separate receiver to listen to your TV you can make the VOL+/- button always send volume commands to the AUX device instead of directly to the TV by following the “Punch Through” procedure in “Setting Up the Remote”

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Installation Overview

Easy as 1-2-3

Step 1 – Install SuperCombiner

The SuperCombiner is a device that is installed just before your main home “root splitter” to distribute your new BOCS channels all over your home. In this step you will:

Decide where to put your Xtender. Plug a special Cable-Finder into the nearest CATV outlet. Find and open your cable splitter box. Find the coaxial wire that goes to the room where you put Xtender. Install the SuperCombiner.

Step 2 – Install the Xtender Unit

Xtender is connected to the three devices you want to control (just like hooking up a new DVD player). Xtender is connected (using stick-on IR emitter cables) to each of those same three devices so Xtender can control them. Xtender is connected to power and the Coax wall jack.

Step 3 – Program the Remote Controls

By punching in a few codes, the remote controls are programmed so they know how to control both local TVs as well as the devices plugged into Xtender.

Setup should take no more than 20 minutes for a typical home

A Quick Start Guide is provided in the Xtender package with large pictures of the entire installation.

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Chapter 2

Step 1 Installing the SuperCombiner

COAX Power Adapto

Parts Needed

tender Power Sup ply

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Select Location for the Xtender

Minimum Location Requirements

• Coaxial cable outlet nearby

• AC power nearby

Likely Locations – Choose One:

• If you already have a stack of A/V equipment in one place (TiVo DVR, cable box,

satellite box, DVR, DVD jukebox etc.), you can put Xtender on top of that stack of equipment.

• Or – you can move all that equipment to an out-of-the-way location (e.g. basement,

closet, or an office) as long as you have power and a coax cable jack there.

Power the Coax Wire

You will be installing the SuperCombiner, but the Xtender requires that the Xtender have it’s own special connection to the SuperCombiner so the first step is to determine which coax wire runs to the room where you decided to put the Xtender. If you are in a new home and are really lucky, that wire will be labeled with the

room name in your cable splitter box. If not, we provide a tool in the installation kit so you can find the right wire.

To find the right wire, we apply power to that coax wire so that an indicator light on the other end can identify when the correct wire is found.

At the closest coax wire jack to the desired Xtender location, and unplug any cable attached to it.

You are looking for the adapter that looks like this – it comes with the optional installation kit.

Now, plug the power adapter that came with your Xtender into the cable finder adapter, and plug the adapter into the wall outlet with a piece of coax – you should now have something that looks like this…

Warning – do not plug the coax adapter into a satellite TV outlet or you may

damage your satellite TV system!!

Parts Neede

SuperCombine

Cable Finder Too

Short COAX Cable

Locate your cable box

This is usually found in the basement, garage or on the outside of your home and will most likely look like one of the photos below: Note that you might have both a telephone and a Cable-TV box and they sometimes look alike.

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Locate the Splitter

It will be in your cable box and will likely look like one of the following.

And it will have wires hooked into most or all of its connectors, so it might be behind a cluttered mess.

Find the Powered Cable

The cable that was powered in the previous step should be connected to one of the outputs of the splitter. To determine which cable has been powered, unplug the cables one at a time and connect the Cable Finder Tool. If the red light doesn’t illuminate plug it back into the splitter. When you find the cable that illuminates the

red light, you have found the cable running to Xtender.

The Cable Finder is a small light attached to a coax connector – it comes with the optional installation kit.

You simply disconnect the cables one at a time and plug them into the cable-finder tool – when you find the one that illuminates the light, you found the correct cable.

Wrong Cable!! Correct Cable!!

Note If you check all the cables connected to your splitter and none illuminates the

Cable-Finder light, see the troubleshooting guide.

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Connecting the SuperCombiner

• Plug the cable you located with the Cable Finder Tool in the step above into the

Xtender port of the SuperCombiner.

• Unplug the IN cable from your current splitter and connect it to the RF IN on the

SuperCombiner.

• Connect a short coax wire between the OUT of the SuperCombiner and the IN of

your splitter.

Important When you are finished with the system installation, make sure to close the box

back up – especially if it is outside the home – you need to put everything back as it was to reduce water/weather exposure to those connections.

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Chapter 3

Step 2 Installing the Xtender

Connect Xtender

Remove the coax adapter and connect a coax cable from the nearby coaxial wire wall jack (usually located on a plastic plate mounted on a wall) to the “ANT IN” jack on Xtender.

Make sure that you rotate the antenna so that it points straight up – this will give you the best range with your wireless remotes.

Connect the Audio/Video devices to the Xtender

Important Place Xtender on the top of your equipment stack, because any equipment placed

on top of the Xtender can impede performance.

Chose the devices

Typical choices are: Tivo, DVD jukebox, Cable Set-Top-Box, Windows Media Center, VCR, VOD box, or anything else with composite audio/video output.

Default settings on your Xtender are:

• Red Channel – Tivo with a cable box

• Green Channel – TiVo DVR

• Blue Channel – DVD player or DVD changer

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