Philips TSU3000 User Manual

Table of Contents

Taking a First Look

Pronto: The Home Theater Control Panel 3

The Device 4 The Touch Screen

What's New for Pronto Next Generation? 7

Before You Start 8

Placing the Batteries 8

Getting Started 9

Turning on Pronto 9 Setting the Contrast Setting Time and Date 10

Changing the Time Format 10 Changing the Time Changing the Date 10

Operating Pronto 12

Device Overview 12 Page Overview 12

Customizing Pronto 13

Using the Tools 13

Defining the Brand for a Device 13 Learning Commands 19 Labeling Elements 21 Adding Devices 23 Deleting Elements 25 Moving Devices 26

Adjusting the Settings

Setting the Timeout of the LCD Screen 28 Setting the Timeout of the LCD Backlight Setting the Switch Level of the Light Sensor Setting the Animation Mode 29 Setting the Volume Level 29 Calibrating the Touch Screen

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Using the Power Features 30

Creating and Editing Macros

Creating a Macro

Editing a Macro 32 Operating Pronto with the Cursor Operating Pronto with RF

Selecting RF to Operate your Devices 35

Selecting IR to Operate your Devices 36

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ProntoEdit 37

FAQ 38

Troubleshooting 40

General Problems 40 Customizing Problems 40 Storage Problems 41 Pronto error messages 41

Maintaining Pronto 42

Important Notices 42 Cleaning Pronto 42

List of Symbols 43

Specifications 46

Glossary 47

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Index

Taking a First Look

Pronto:

The Home Theater Control Panel

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

Pronto 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 is set up to control Philips or Marantz devices. For other brands you simply choose the brands of your devices when you use Pronto for the first time.

Pronto 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 choose to have Pronto 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 RF signals into IR signals.

With ProntoEdit software you can create your own screens and define a personal

look. ProntoEdit's Online Help system (accessible via the 'Help' icon in ProntoEdit) will guide you through the process. You can find ProntoEdit on the included CD ROM and on the Philips website page 37 for more information.

www.pronto.philips.com. See "ProntoEdit" on

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Taking a First Look

The Device

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

■ The buttons on the left side of Pronto and the buttons at the right side of the screen have predefined functions.

■ The utter left button below the touch screen has a predefined function. The two middle buttons below the touch screen and the utter right button are freely programmable. You can reprogram the function of these buttons and change the label on the touch screen.

■ The cursor buttons and buttons on the right side of the cursor are programmed to operate devices, for instance for navigating through the on screen menu of your TV. All these buttons are freely programmable. However, these buttons each have a predefined function. If you learn one of these buttons or assign a macro to it, its predefined function for that database will be permanently lost.

LCD touch screen

Buttons

Learning eye

Light sensor

Volume up Volume down

Mute Channel up Channel down

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Toggle button

SmartSurfer

Cursor navigation

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Backlight Page up Page down

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Reset button

Battery compartment

Connection to docking station USB port

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The Touch Screen

Device

Pronto Overview Overview

Device Page

icon button button

Next Device

Labeis for the hard buttons

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Taking a First Look

What's New for Pronto Next Generation?

This new Pronto offers several new features compared to the previous model. The most important ones are:

■ Light Sensor

The Light Sensor on your Pronto causes the backlight to switch on

automatically according to the ambient light of your own home theater environment.

■ 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.

■ 16 Gray Scales

The number of gray scales has increased from 4 to 16. Therefore the buttons

look much more natural.

■ Transparency

Pronto supports transparency in buttons and other objects. This allows the user to create complex user interfaces in an easy way.

■ Cursor Navigation

By default the cursor is programmed to operate devices. The functions assigned to the cursor button depend on the device active on the Pronto. Pronto 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 provides navigation feedback through graphical animations of mode transitions and page transitions. You can enable and disable the animations of your Pronto in the Setup Page.

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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.

Q Slide off the battery cover from the back of Pronto.

Place the batteries in the battery compartment.

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

battery icon in the right upper corner of the screen. Pronto retains all its settings when the batteries have run out. You will only have to set the time. See "Changing the Time" on page 10 for more information.

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

Getting Started

Turning on Pronto

Pronto can be turned on in three different ways:

■ Tap the touch screen.

Nate Only use your finger or a blunt soft object like a penal eraser to operate the

touch screen.

Press one of the hard buttons.

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

executed immediately, while the buttons 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 using the hard buttons on the left side of the device.

■ To decrease the contrast, press and hold the upper button and at the same

time press the hard button.

To increase the contrast, press and hold the upper button and at the same

time press the "+" hard button.

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

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Backlight & contrast

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Setting Time and Date

When you have installed the batteries and turned on the Pronto, you might want to

set the current time and date. To go to the Setup Pages, tap the Pronto icon in the top center of the touch screen.

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There are two different formats:

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

■ 24 hour

You can select the Time Format by tapping the Time Format button in the first Setup Page. The Time Format button toggles between the two formats.

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Note When the batteries are replaced, the time is reset to 0.00 a.m.

[T| Tap the Tij" button in the first Setup Page.

The Time button is selected. The labels '+' and appear for the two middle hard buttons.

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[Y| To increase the time, press (and hold) the hard button labeled '+'.

-or To decrease the time, press (and hold) the hard button labeled '-'.

[—1 Tap the Tij" button again.

The new time is set.

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To change the year

[T Tap the Year button in the first Setup Page.

The Year button is selected. The labels '+' and '-' appear for the two middle hard buttons.

[I To increase the years, press (and hold) the hard button labeled '+'.

-or To decrease the years, press (and hold) the hard button labeled '-'.

[—I Tap the Year button again.

The new year is set.

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To change the month

Q Tap the Month button in the first Setup Page.

The Month button is selected. The labels '+' and appear for the two middle

hard buttons.

[I To increase the months, press (and hold) the hard button labeled

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To decrease the months, press (and hold) the hard button labeled '-'.

[— Tap the Month button again.

The new month is set.

To change the day

Q Tap the Day button in the first Setup Page.

The Day button is selected. The labels '+' and '-' appear for the two middle

hard buttons.

[I To increase the days, press (and hold) the hard button labeled '+'.

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To decrease the days, press (and hold) the hard button labeled '-'. Tap the Day button again.

The new day is set.

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Operating Pronto

Pronto contains a series of customizable devices, each consisting of several device pages. All active devices on your Pronto 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. To view the Device Overview, press the middle button at the top of the touch screen.

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.

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

Device Overview button

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By default you navigate through Pronto using this touch screen navigation. When cursor navigation is enabled, the Device Left and Device Right button disappear. 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 with the Cursor" on page 33.

Page Overview

The Page Overview offers you a list of all the pages for one device. To view the Page Overview, tap the Page Number

in the upper area of 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 Up or Down hard button on the left side of Pronto.

Page

Overview

button

Customizing Pronto

What makes Pronto 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 software. See "ProntoEdit" on page 37 for more information.

Using the Tools

Pronto provides different tools. For customizing Pronto you have to switch to the appropriate tool. Pronto offers 8 different tools, each providing different functionalities:

■ Brand Tool:

Defining the brands of your audio/video equipment (page 13);

■ Learn Tool:

Learning IR codes from other remote controls (page 19);

■ Label Tool:

Labelling buttons, devices and pages (page 21);

■ Add Tool:

Adding new devices or copying existing devices (page 23);

■ Delete Tool:

Deleting button actions or devices (page 25);

■ Move Tool:

Moving devices in the Device Overview (page 26);

■ Macro Tool:

Programming a sequence of commands for one single button (page 30);

■ RFIRTool:

Defining to operate Pronto with IR signals or RF signals (page 34).

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Defining the Brand for a Device

Pronto contains a huge list of brands and their according IR codes in its database. Pronto 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 autodetect 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 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.

Customizing Pronto

Searching the Brand and Code Set for your device

ni Press the left hard button below the touch screen for

2 seconds. The TOOLS menu appears.

[I Tap Brand In the Tools Menu.

The 'Brand Tool' screen appears.

0 Tap CED .

The Device Overview appears.

[G Select the Device for which you want to define

the brand. The 'Brands' screen appears.

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Searching the brand

[j] Tap in the 'Brands' screen.

The 'Searching the Brand' screen appears.

[G Tap J and point Pronto at the device.

The 'Searching' screen appears. Pronto searches through the list of brands by sending out an IR code for each brand.

[G When the device for which you are defining

the brand responds to the IR code, tap in the 'Searching' screen.

The 'Installing the Brand' screen appears.

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Installing the brand

[j] Tap in the 'Installing the Brand' screen.

The first Page of the selected Device appears.

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

for the selected brand and code set.

0 Press the left hard button .

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

-orPress I ^ and tap GzJ again.

3 Press the left hard button i below the touch screen to exit

Brand Tool.

Selecting the Brand and searching the Code Set for your device

[j] Press the left hard button [ Tooir^ below the touch screen for

2 seconds.

The TOOLS menu appears.

Tap Brand in the Tools Menu. The 'Brand Tool' screen appears.

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0 Tap CGG in the 'Brand Tool' screen.

The Device Overview appears.

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

the brand. The 'Defining the Brand' appears.

0 Tap L±lJ in the'Defining the Brand'screen.

The 'Brands' screen appears.

Selecting the brand

[j] You can tap the Scroll Down button H or the Scroll Up button S

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 brands name characters.

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Tap the brand for the selected Device in the Brands List. The selected Device is highlighted.

® TaplS) in the 'Brands' screen.

If there is only one code set, the 'Installing the Brand' screen appears.

-orIf there is more than one possible code set,

the 'Code Sets' screen appears.

Searching the code set

rn Tap CEEH) in the 'Code Sets' screen.

The 'Searching the Brand' screen appears.

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[T| Tap and point Pronto at the device.

The 'Searching' screen appears. Pronto searches through the list of code sets for the selected brand, by sending out an IR code for each code set.

0 Tap in the 'Searching' screen.

The 'Installing the Brand' screen appears.

[G To install the brand and code set, follow the instructions described in

"Installing the brand" on page 15.

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