Philips SBC RU950 User Manual

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SBC RU950

Home Theatre Control Panel

User Guide

Benutzeranleitung

Mode d’emploi

Gebruiksaanwijzing

Guía del Usuario

Safety & Regulations

Regulations according to R&TTE

English Hereby, Philips Consumer Electronics, Remote Control Systems, declares that this

Pronto NG is in compliance with the essential requirements and other relevant provisions of

Directive 1999/5/EC.

Finnish Philips Consumer Electronics, Remote Control Systems vakuuttaa täten että

Pronto NG tyyppinen laite on direktiivin 1999/5/EY oleellisten vaatimusten ja sitä koskevien

direktiivin muiden ehtojen mukainen.

Dutch Hierbij verklaart, Philips Consumer Electronics, Remote Control Systems dat het toestel

Pronto NG in overeenstemming is met de essentiële eisen en de andere relevante bepalingen

van richtlijn 1999/5/EG.

French Par la présente, Philips Consumer Electronics, Remote Control Systems, déclare que l’appareil

Pronto NG est conforme aux exigences essentielles et aux autres dispositions pertinentes de la

directive 1999/5/CE.

Swedish Härmed intygar, Philips Consumer Electronics, Remote Control Systems, att denna

Pronto NG står I överensstämmelse med de väsentliga egenskapskrav och övriga relevanta

bestämmelser som framgår av direktiv 1999/5/EG.

Danish Undertegnede Philips Consumer Electronics, Remote Control Systems erklærer herved, at

følgende udstyr Pronto NG overholder de væsentlige krav og øvrige relevante krav i direktiv 1999/5/EF

German Hiermit erklärt Philips Consumer Electronics, Remote Control Systems die Übereinstimmung des

Gerätes Pronto NG mit den grundlegenden Anforderungen und den anderen relevanten Festlegungen der Richtlinie 1999/5/EG.

Greek ΜΕΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΑ Philips Consumer Electronics, Remote Control Systems ∆ΗΛΩΝΕΙ ΟΤΙ

Pronto NG ΣΥΜΜΟΡΦΩΝΕΤΑΙ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΙΣ ΟΥΣΙΩ∆ΕΙΣ ΑΠΑΙΤΗΣΕΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΙΣ ΛΟΙΠΕΣ

ΣΧΕΤΙΚΕΣ ∆ΙΑΤΑΞΕΙΣ ΤΗΣ Ο∆ΗΛΙΑΣ 1999/5/ΕΚ.

Italian Con la presente Philips Consumer Electronics, Remote Control Systems dichiara che questo

Pronto NG è conforme ai requisiti essenziali ed alle altre disposizioni pertinenti stabilite dalla

direttiva 1999/5/CE.

Spanish Por medio de la presente, Philips Consumer Electronics, Remote Control Systems, declara que

el Pronto NG cumple con los requisitos esenciales y cualesquiera otras disposiciones aplicables o exigibles de la Directiva 1999/5/CE.

Portuguese Philips Consumer Electronics, Remote Control Systems declara que este Pronto NG está

conforme com os requisitos essenciais e outras disposições da Directiva 1999/5/CE.

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Declaration of Conformity (DoC) can be found at http://www.pronto.philips.com/products/DoC.

This device can be used in:

AT ✓ BE ✓ CH ✓ DE ✓ DK ✓ GR ✓ ES ✓ FI ✓ FR ✓ IRE ✓ ISR IT ✓ LU ✓ NL ✓ NO ✓ PT ✓ SE ✓ UK ✓

Table of Contents

Taking a First Look 4

Pronto NG: The Home Theatre Control Panel 4

The Device 5 The Touch Screen 7

What’s New for Pronto Next Generation? 8

Before You Start 10

Placing the batteries 10

Getting Started 11

Turning on Pronto NG 11 Setting the Contrast 11 Setting Time and Date 12

Changing the Time Format 12 Changing the Time 12 Changing the Date 13 Setting the Language 14

Operating Pronto NG 15

Device Overview 15 Page Overview 16

Customising Pronto NG 17

Using the Tools 17

Defining the Brand for a Device 18 Learning Commands 21 Labelling Elements 23 Adding Devices 26 Deleting Elements 28 Moving Devices 29

Adjusting the Settings 30

Setting the Timeout of the LCD Backlight 30 Setting the Timeout of the LCD Screen 31 Setting the Switch Level for the Backlight 31 Setting the Volume Level 32 Setting the Navigation for Pronto NG 32 Setting the Animation Mode 33 Calibrating the Touch Screen 33

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Table of Contents

Using the Power Features 34

Creating and Editing Macros 34

Creating a Macro 34 Editing a Macro 36

Creating and Editing Timers 37

Activating Timers 43 Operating Pronto NG with the Cursor 44 Operating Pronto NG with RF 46

Selecting RF to Operate your Devices 47

Selecting IR to Operate your Devices 48

ProntoEdit NG 49

FAQ 51

Tr oubleshooting 53

General Problems 53 Customising Problems 54 Memory Storage Problems 55 Pronto NG error messages 55 Connection to the PC 55

Maintaining Pronto NG 56

Important Notices 56 Cleaning Pronto NG 56 Upgrading Pronto NG 56

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List of Symbols 57

Specifications 60

Glossary 61

Index 64

Taking a First Look

Pronto NG: The Home Theatre Control Panel

Pronto NG is a Home Theatre Control Panel that allows maximum flexibility and customisation for even the most sophisticated home entertainment system. It can control almost any device that works with infrared (IR) remote control signals. Its intuitive interface makes it a perfect remote control for every user.

Pronto NG is easy to configure. It contains a huge universal database where IR codes are stored to control different brands for all kinds of video, audio devices and even home automation equipment. By default Pronto NG is set up to control Philips and Marantz devices. For other brands you simply choose the brands of your devices when you use Pronto NG for the first time.

Pronto NG offers you some extra powerful features:

■ You can create and edit macros, allowing you to send a series of commands

with one single touch.

■ You can set timers for certain actions to be carried out at predefined times,

e.g. switching on your lights or recording your favourite daily TV-show with your VCR.

■ You can choose to have Pronto NG working with radio frequency (RF) signals to

operate devices from a distance or from an adjacent room. To do this, you need an optional RF Extender that converts Pronto NG RF signals into IR signals.

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With ProntoEdit NG software you can create your own screens and define a personal look. ProntoEdit NG’s Online Help system (accessible via the ‘Help’ icon in ProntoEdit NG) will guide you through the process. See ‘ProntoEdit NG’ on page 49 for more information. You can find ProntoEdit NG on the included CD-ROM and on the Philips website www the Downloads section of the website you can also find the latest upgrades for your Pronto NG software.

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Taking a First Look

The Device

Pronto NG has several hard buttons. Most are freely programmable, some have a predefined function:

■ The buttons on the left side of the Pronto NG screen have predefined

functions: Page up, Page down and Backlight.

■ The 4 firm keys below the touch screen are freely programmable. You can

reprogram the function of these buttons and change the label on the touch screen.

■ The cursor and the OK and Home buttons on the right side of the cursor are

programmed to operate devices (e.g. navigating through the on screen menu of your TV). With the Toggle button you can change the working of the cursor. The free programmable button is meant for future purposes.

■ The buttons on the right side of the screen are used to control the volume and

channel: Channel up, Channel down, Mute, Volume up and Volume down. Although these buttons each have a predefined function, you can

program them yourself. If you learn one of these buttons or assign a macro to it, its predefined function will be permanently lost.

Learning eye

Light sensor

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LCD touch screen

Firm keys

Toggle button

Free programmable

Channel up

Channel down

Mute

Volume up

Volume down

Home

Cursor

Taking a First Look

Backlight Page up Page down

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Reset button

Connection to docking station

Battery compartment

USB port

The Touch Screen

Taking a First Look

Device

Soft

buttons

Pronto NG Icon

Device Overview button

Labels for the firm keys

Page Overview button

Next Device

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Taking a First Look

What’s New for Pronto Next Generation?

This new Pronto NG (SBC RU950) offers several new features compared to the previous model of Pronto (SBC RU940). The most important ones are:

■ Light sensor

The light sensor on your Pronto NG causes the backlight to switch on automatically according to the ambient light of your own home theatre environment.

■ Transparency

Pronto NG supports transparency in buttons and other objects. This makes it easier to create complex user interfaces. You can now place buttons with a transparent background on top of a background image and let transparent buttons overlap.

■ 16 gray scales

The number of gray scales has increased from 4 to 16. Therefore the buttons look much more natural.

■ USB

Pronto NG has a USB port to make downloading and uploading easier.

■ 4 MB of Memory

Pronto NG has 4 Megabyte of memory. This enables you to download larger configuration files to Pronto NG.

■ Integrated Macros

Macros are now better integrated in the configuration file. Each button can be a macro, this means each button can contain more than one action.

■ More advanced Timers

Your Pronto NG is able to set timers for certain actions to be carried out at any time you choose. Timers are not an entirely new feature of Pronto NG, but they are easier to use and better integrated with the configuration file. You can activate and deactivate the timers you created and you can also set them to repeat daily or weekly. For instance, you can have the lights switched on every day at sunset. You can also create a timer to set your VCR to record your favourite TV-show on Wednesday and Saturday.

■ RF

By default, Pronto NG operates your devices with IR signals. However, you can choose to have Pronto NG working with radio frequency (RF) signals to operate devices from a distance or from an adjacent room. An RF Extender (not included) is therefore required.

■ Page Overview

The Page Overview offers you a list of all the pages for one device. Every device comes with a Page Overview, making it easier and faster to browse through the device pages.

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Taking a First Look

■ Cursor Navigation

By default the cursor is programmed to operate devices. The functions assigned to the cursor button depend on the device active on Pronto NG. Pronto NG also offers you the possibility to use the cursor for navigating through devices and pages on the screen. The Left and Right cursor buttons allow you to scroll through the devices, with the Up and Down cursor buttons you scroll through the different pages.

■ Animation Mode

Pronto NG provides navigation feedback through graphical animations of mode transitions and page transitions. You can enable and disable the animations of your Pronto NG in the Settings Pages.

■ Multi Language Support

Pronto NG now supports besides English also Spanish, French, German and Dutch.

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Before You Start

Placing the Batteries

When you use Pronto for the first time, you will have to place 4 AAA batteries. You can use rechargeable or non-rechargeable AAA batteries.

1Press the latch on the battery cover with your thumb and then slide the

cover forward firmly.

2 Lift up the battery cover.

3 Place the batteries in the battery

compartment.

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4 Slide the battery cover back on.

After a few seconds, the Pronto NG starts up automatically and an introduction screen appears. The Pronto NG beeps twice to indicate that it has finished starting up.

Notes When the batteries are running low, the Low Battery icon appears over the battery

icon in the upper left corner of the screen.

Pronto NG retains all its settings when the batteries have run out. You will only have to set the contrast and the time. See ‘Setting the Contrast’ on page 11 and ‘Changing the Time’ on page 12 for more information.

You can also use a docking station and a battery pack to recharge your Pronto NG. The docking station and the battery pack are optional.

Getting Started

Turning on Pronto NG

Pronto NG can be turned on in three different ways:

Tap the touch screen.

Note Only use your finger, a stylus or a blunt soft object like a pencil eraser to

operate the touch screen.

Press one of the 4 firm keys below the screen to activate the display.

Note When you press a hard button on Pronto NG, the according function will be

executed immediately, while the 4 firm keys below the touch screen will activate the display.

Press the Backlight button.

Setting the Contrast

You can set the contrast level and switch on the backlight of Pronto NG using the hard buttons on the left side of the device.

■ To decrease the contrast, press and hold the Backlight button and at the

same time press the ‘-’ hard button. To increase the contrast, press and hold the Backlight button and at the same time press the ‘+’ hard button.

■ To switch on the backlight, press the Backlight button.

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Backlight & contrast

Getting Started

Setting Time and Date

When you have placed the batteries and turned on Pronto NG, you have to set the current time.

Attention Every time you reset your Pronto NG you will have to set the time again.

Changing the Time Format

1Tap and hold the Pronto NG icon in the upper left corner of the

touch screen for 3 seconds. The Tools Menu appears.

2Tap button in the Tools Menu.

The first Settings Page appears.

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3Tap the Time Format button in the first Settings Page.

The Time Format button toggles between the three time formats:

■ 12 hour (AM/PM): This is the default format;

■ 24 hour;

■ No time.

4Tap the Pronto NG icon to exit the Settings Tool.

Changing the Time

1Tap and hold the Pronto NG icon in the upper left corner of the

touch screen for 3 seconds. The Tools Menu appears.

2Tap in the Tools Menu.

The first Settings Page appears.

3Tap the Time button in the first Settings Page.

The Time button is selected. The labels ‘+’ and ‘-’ appear for the two middle firm keys.

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4To increase the time, press (and hold) the firm key labelled ‘+’.

-orTo decrease the time, press (and hold) the firm key labelled ‘-’.

5Tap the Time button again.

The new time is set.

6Tap the Pronto NG icon to exit the Settings Tool.

Changing the Date

1Tap and hold the Pronto NG icon in the upper left corner of the

touch screen for 3 seconds. The Tools Menu appears.

2Tap in the Tools Menu.

The first Settings Page appears.

To change the day

1Tap the Day button in the first Settings Page.

The Day button is selected. The labels ‘+’ and ‘-’ appear for the two middle firm keys.

2To increase the days, press (and hold) the firm key labelled ‘+’.

-orTo decrease the days, press (and hold) the firm key labelled ‘-’.

3Tap the Day button again.

The new day is set.

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4 When you have changed the date, tap the Pronto NG icon to exit

the Settings Tool.

To change the month

1Tap the Month button in the first Settings Page.

The Month button is selected. The labels ‘+’ and ‘-’ appear for the two middle firm keys.

2To increase the months, press (and hold) the firm key labelled ‘+’.

-orTo decrease the months, press (and hold) the firm key labelled ‘-’.

3Tap the Month button again.

The new month is set.

4 When you have changed the date, tap the Pronto NG icon to exit

the Settings Tool.

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To change the year

1Tap the Year button in the first Settings Page.

The Year button is selected. The labels ‘+’ and ‘-’ appear for the two middle firm keys.

2To increase the years, press (and hold) the firm key labelled ‘+’.

-orTo decrease the years, press (and hold) the firm key labelled ‘-’.

3Tap the Year button again.

The new year is set.

4 When you have changed the date, tap the Pronto NG icon to exit

the Settings Tool.

Setting the Language

You can change the language used on your Pronto NG.

1Tap and hold the Pronto NG icon in the upper left corner of the

touch screen for 3 seconds. The Tools Menu appears.

2Tap in the Tools Menu.

The first Settings Page appears.

3Press the Page down hard button.

The second Settings Page appears.

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4Tap in the second Settings Page.

The Language button toggles between five languages:

■ English;

■ German;

■ French;

■ Dutch;

■ Spanish.

5Tap the Pronto NG icon to exit the Settings Tool.

Getting Started

Operating Pronto NG

Pronto NG contains a series of customisable devices, each consisting of several device pages. All active devices on your Pronto NG are listed in the Device Overview. All the available device pages are listed per device in the Page Overview.

Device Overview

The Device Overview offers you a list of all the devices you can control with Pronto NG. To view the Device Overview, press the Device Overview button at the top of the touch screen.

Device Overview button

Device Left button

You can navigate between the devices in two different ways:

■ Tap the device you want to operate from the Device Overview.

■ Tap the Device Left button at the top of the touch screen to navigate to

the previous device.

Device Right button

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Tap the Device Right button at the top of the touch screen to navigate to the next device.

By default you navigate through Pronto NG, using this touch screen navigation. When cursor navigation is enabled, the Device Left and Device Right button

disappear and the Cursor Navigation icon appears at the top left. You then navigate through the devices and pages using the cursor. For more information on changing the touch screen navigation to cursor navigation, see ‘Operating Pronto NG with the Cursor’ on page 44.

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Page Overview

The Page Overview offers you a list of all the pages for one device. To view the Page Overview, tap the Page Overview button, that displays the page number in the upper area of the touch screen.

You can navigate between the different pages in two different ways:

■ Tap the page you want to operate from the Page Overview.

■ Press the Page Up or Page Down hard button on the left side of

Pronto NG.

Page Overview button

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Customising Pronto NG

What makes Pronto NG so powerful, is the ability to extend its functionality in multiple ways, like programming additional functions, adding supplementary devices and changing the interface as it suits you best.

For full editing you can use ProntoEdit NG software. See ‘ProntoEdit NG’ on page 49 for more information.

Using the Tools

Pronto NG provides different tools. For customising Pronto NG you have to switch to the appropriate tool. Pronto NG offers 10 different tools in the Tools Menu, each providing different functionalities:

Settings Tool:

Defining the settings of your Pronto NG (p. 30)

Brand Tool:

Defining the brands of your audio/video equipment (p. 18)

Label Tool:

Labelling buttons, devices and pages (p. 23)

Delete Tool:

Deleting button actions or devices (p. 28)

Macro Tool:

Programming a sequence of commands for one single button (p. 34)

Defining timer actions to be carried out at predefined times (p. 37)

Learning IR codes from other remote controls (p. 21)

Adding new devices or copying existing devices (p. 26)

Moving devices in the Device Overview (p. 29)

Defining to operate Pronto NG with IR signals or RF signals (p. 46)

Timer Tool:

Learn Tool:

Add Tool:

Move Tool:

RF IR Tool:

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To enter the Tools Menu, you have to tap and hold the Pronto NG icon in the upper left corner of the touch screen for 3 seconds.

You can exit all Tools by tapping the Pronto NG icon . Keep in mind that your latest changes to the current page will not be saved automatically.

Customising Pronto NG

In general, in the Tools:

■ Tap to start using the Tool.

■ Tap to go back to the Tools Menu.

■ Tap to confirm an action and save the changes you made.

■ Tap to cancel an action without saving the changes.

■ Press the firm key labelled to end a series of actions and go back

to the Tools Menu.

Defining the Brand for a Device

Pronto NG contains a huge list of brands and their corresponding IR codes in its database. Pronto NG uses these IR codes to control devices. Because there are several brands using specific IR codes, you have to define the brands and the corresponding code sets for each device. You can either have Pronto NG autosearch the brand or select it yourself. If a device’s brand contains more than one IR code set, you also have to select it.

On the Device Overview you find buttons for the most common video and audio devices. Pronto NG is set by default to operate Philips and Marantz devices. For all devices other than Philips or Marantz, you first have to define the brand before you can operate them with Pronto NG.

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Selecting the Brand and Code Set for your Device

1Tap and hold the Pronto NG icon in the upper left corner of the

touch screen for 3 seconds.

The Tools Menu appears.

2Tap in the Tools Menu.

The ‘Brand Tool’ screen appears.

3Tap in the ‘Brand Tool’ screen.

The Device Overview appears.

4 In the Device Overview, tap the Device for which you want to define

the brand.

A message screen appears.

5Tap .

The ‘Brands’ screen appears.

Customising Pronto NG

Selecting the brand

1Tap the Scroll Down button or the Scroll Up button next to the

Brands list.

The Brands list scrolls down/up.

Note You can also select the brand via the virtual keyboard by tapping one or more

of the brand’s name characters.

2Tap the brand for the selected Device in the Brands list.

3Tap in the ‘Brands’ screen.

If there is only one code set, the ‘Installing the Brand’ screen appears. Go to ‘Installing the brand’ below.

-orIf there is more than one possible code set, a message screen appears.

4Tap .

The ‘Code sets’ screen appears.

Selecting the code set

1 If necessary, tap the Scroll Down button or the

Scroll Up button next to the Code Sets list.

The Code Sets list scrolls down/up.

2Tap the code set for the selected Device in the Code Sets list.

3Tap in the ‘Code Sets’ screen.

The ‘Installing the Brand’ screen appears.

Installing the brand

1Tap in the ‘Installing the Brand’ screen.

The first Page of the selected Device appears.

2Tap different buttons to see if the device is responding to the IR codes

for the selected brand and code set.

3Press the left firm key, labelled .

The ‘Installing the Brand’ screen appears again.

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4Tap in the ‘Installing the Brand’ screen.

The IR codes for the selected brand and code set are installed.

+ 47 hidden pages