Pogo TSR-500 User Manual

TSR-500 User Manual

Section 1:

At First Glance..............................4

Section 2:

Unpacking and

Initial Orientation..........................5

Section 3:

Setup..............................................9

Section 4:

Programming Your Devices.......17

Section 5:

Learn Code.................................22

Section 6:

Setting Up MyPick.......................25

Section 7:

Key Mirror.....................................29

Section 8:

Key Label....................................32

Section 9:

Additional Key Device Functions

to Enhance Control....................40

Section 10:

Operation of

MyPick Function......................41

Section 11:

Troubleshooting.......................42

Section 12:

Limited Warranty.....................43

Notice to Users.......................................................................................3

Introduction............................................................................................4

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Notice to Users

This manual is protected by copyright law and all rights are reserved. No portion of this manual may be reproduced in any form or translated into other languages without written permission from the manufacturer and publisher of this manual.

The content of this manual is provided “as is” and the manufacturer is under NO obligation to notify users of revisions or modications to the product or procedures.

Every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information herein. However, the manufacturer is not responsible for any inaccuracies or omissions that may affect the TSR/500’s operation.

All programs or accessories included with the TSR/500 are under copyright protection. No part of these programs may be reproduced without written permission from the manufacturer and publisher.

The PoGo! Products logo, MyPick™, all POWER™, Key Mirror™ are trademarks of PoGo! Products, Inc. All other product names used in this manual are protected by each product’s trademark, service mark, or registered brand.

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Introduction

Thank you for purchasing the TSR/500 Universal Touch-Screen Remote, which eliminates the hassle and confusion of multiple remote controls with one, simple, advanced solution. The many features of this hand-held unit allow you to fully customize the remote operation of your home entertainment system according to your preferences as well as those of ve other users. We at PoGo! Products believe you’ll nd yourself wondering how you ever lived without the TSR/500. It’s innovation at your ngertips!

You can obtain more information about PoGo! Products on our website: www.pogoproducts.com. You can also sign up to receive free information about our products and receive technical support services.

1. At First Glance

Product Feature Overview

At last you can access all of your multimedia devices with one remote control. The PoGo! Products’ TSR/500 allows you to quickly take charge of your TV, DVD, VCR, PVR, Surround Amp, Satellite, and cable boxes, to name a few electronic devices. With its extensive library of manufacturer brands stored internally, the TSR/500 enables you to nd the right code to control even your most esoteric audio/video devices.

In addition, the unit’s Learning Mode, you can update code for any new audio/ video gear in the future. With today’s rapid advances in multimedia and technology, it is hard to anticipate what new functions and controls might be needed in the future. The TSR-500 anticipates these future needs with features for editing and customizing the Soft Keys on the remote touch screen all without using a PC.

With MyPick, TM everyone in your household can have their own personal settings and macros. Up to six different users pages can be customized, each with 4 pages with 8functions each with 4 levels. With MyPick, you can easily automate functions you frequently use. For example, to play a DVD movie in your home theater with MyPick, you can program the unit to allow you to turn on your TV/Monitor, DVD player, your Surround Amp, plus adjust volume and play the movie with a couple of keystrokes. You can set up a page for your child that lets them view only the channels you want them to see.

If technology intimidates you and you can’t set the clock on your VCR, don’t worry.

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Your TSR-500’s help screens and friendly user interface will have you up and running in no time. Take a few moments to familiarize yourself with the contents of this manual and begin to enjoy life without the remote control headaches!

2. Unpacking and Initial Orientation

Carefully remove the battery cover on the back of the TSR/500 by pressing down on the semicircle on the back with your thumb and sliding the cover toward you (or the bottom of the unit). Install the 4 AAA batteries included with your remote. Please observe the polarity markings ( insert battery compartment diagram). The at end of each battery goes against each spring. Replace the battery cover. The unit will beep and display the software version (Firmware and Database information). This information disappears quickly, often before you turn the remote over to look at it. It’s not a problem to miss this information. TAP CENTER OF TARGET appears on the LCD Screen. Stop here and read further down to get oriented. See Section 3 on Setup to continue programming the unit.

Please take moment to familiarize yourself with the location and functions of the controls in your remote. Note that some controls do more than one thing, such as the LCD contrast +/- on the left side panel of the unit. This control only changes the LCD contrast in the conguration screen mode. In all other modes, it doubles as a screen page up and down.

The remote is activated any time you touch the LCD Screen or any of the Hard Keys such as volume, channel when turned on it displays the previous active device. If you were using the TV device before the remote turned off, then you will automatically come back to that device when the unit is activated again.

The remote is controlled by two type of keys:

• Hard Keys: POWER, MENU, EXIT, MUTE, all POWER, VOL+, VOL-, CH+, CH- , Next, Prev /LCD+ /- (Conguration Mode) and B/L .

• Soft Keys: They are the touch-sensitive areas on the LCD that include the device columns on the left and right portions of the LCD and the active area of the LCD. The active area of the LCD display displays context functions dependent on the device selected. In the following example, TV has been selected so you can see a numeric keypad for direct entry of channel data.

All POWER: When the [all POWER] Soft Key is pressed, the power codes for the all pre-selected devices will be transmitted in sequence. The [all POWER] Hard Key alternately turns the selected devices on or off if they are already on.

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Some functions such as Next and Prev are duplicated on the touch-screen Soft Keys and Hard Keys. As a result, you can use the remote for convenient one-hand operation or on a coffee table.

Thus by pressing the Next or Prev Hard Keys on the touch-screen panel or by pressing the Next or Prev Soft Keys on the lower left or lower right side of the touch screen, the Next or Prev(ious) screen page will be selected.

See below:

• The page number changes from 1/6 to 2/6.

• Some devices such as TV, DVR and Audio may have 6 pages of functions.

• VCR has 7 pages, DVD and CD have 5 pages, Cable and SAT have 3 pages, Tape has 2 pages.

Battery Installation

When you use TSR/500 for the rst time, you have to install the batteries. TSR/500 requires 4 new AAA Alkaline batteries (Included, 4 x 1.5 V ) to function.

1. Remove the battery cover on the back of TSR/500 by pressing and sliding.

2. Place four new batteries in the direction indicated on the inside of the battery compartment

3. Place the battery cover back on.

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Note : If you are replacing old batteries, TSR/500 will retain its setup and programming indenitely, even without batteries. Note : After replacing the batteries, the Touch Pad Calibration Screen will appear. To ensure accurate LCD touch entry, you will need to calibrate the touch pad.

Using a stylus or pencil, touch the center of all three targets. This enables the Touch Pad set-up.

Note : Do not mix old and new batteries. If your TSR/500 is not to be used for a long period of time, remove the old batteries to prevent leakage and internal damage.

Reset of Battery

Under normal circumstances, you will never have to reset the TSR/500. However, on rare occasions, if the TSR/500’s touch screen freezes or if you notice unusual behavior, you need to perform a reset to get the TSR/500 running again. All customized commands and devices are retained.

1. Remove the battery cover on the back of TSR/500 by pressing and sliding.

2. Use an unfolded paperclip to carefully press the Reset button

3. Replace the battery cover back on.

4. After performing the reset, you will need to calibrate the touch pad to ensure accurate LCD touch entry.

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Low Battery Alert

TSR/500 provides an On-Screen Message when the remote is low on battery power.

When the remote is low on battery power, The LCD will provide an on-screen message for around 2 seconds when you turn on the remote by pressing any hard button or soft keys. Although there is a message on-screen, the remote can still be used in the general operation mode. It can be used for several hours although there may be some some malfunctioning of the programming modes such as programming code, learn code, label etc.

When the on-screen message “ Battery Low” appears, you need to replace the new AAA Alkaline batteries.

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3. Setup

1) Using a stylus or the tip of a pencil, press in the center of TAP CENTER OF TARGET in the upper left corner of the LCD display.

2) Repeat the procedure in the lower left corner.

3) Repeat this procedure a third time in the center of the LCD display. The LCD will go blank, but you now have access to

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set up the controls.

4) Press the [SETUP] Soft Key on left side of LCD touch panel. This puts your remote in SETUP mode.

Note: In SETUP Mode, you can program the code, learn the code, change the label, set up the MyPick, set up the Key mirror and change the conguration.

5) next, touch the [CONFIGURATION] Soft Key, which gives you six conguration modes. This mode lets you change preferences such as LCD off time, key tones on/off, all POWER setup and Default setting (see diagram below)

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3.1 Touch Pad Calibration

To ensure accurate LCD touch entry, you will need to calibrate the touch pad.

1) Press the [TOUCHPAD SETUP] Soft Key to enter Touch pad setup mode.

2) Using a stylus or pencil, touch the center of all three targets as shown previously. This enables the Touch Pad set-up.

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3-2. Changing LCD off time

The LCD remains on for a time period selcted by the user (5 seconds to 180 seconds). The power on default is 50 seconds from last key press.

1) To change the 50-second default time to allow more or less time before the LCD turns off, press the [50 SEC] key.

Note: You must be in SETUP Mode to perform this operation.

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2) To increase LCD off time, press the + Soft Key.

3) To decrease LCD off time, press the – Soft Key.

Note: You may hold down the keys to move to your preferred number of seconds quicker.

4) To return to [CONFIGURATION] mode, press [EXIT] Soft Key

5) The previous [50 SEC] key will now display the number of seconds you selected

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3.3 Key Actuation Tones

The default setting of “Key Tone” is [ON]. The touch tone sound is emitted with each key actuation. (In other words, the unit beeps each time you press a Hard or Soft Key.)

1) Press the touch-tone [ON] Soft Key to set it to “OFF” (non-beeping).

2) Press the touch-tone [OFF] Soft Key to turn it [ON] again (beeping).

3.4 All Power Setup

To access this function, you need to be in Setup Mode and have selected the[all POWER] Soft Key.

Select all of the devices you wish to be controlled by [all POWER] Soft Key and then the dot marks will be displayed next to each device selected . If you select the wrong device, just press the device Soft Key once more and the device dot mark will be gone. When the [all POWER] Soft Key is pressed, the power codes for the all pre-selected devices will be transmitted

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Note: all POWER will only function if your remote is programmed See PROGRAM CODE in the next section. Press SETUP to return to Conguration Mode.

The diagram shows AUDIO, CBL, TV, AND AUX 1, AUX 3 AND AUX 6 selected for all Power.

3-5. Default Setting

This setting returns the remote to its intial state before user programing.

1) To delete the learned data for a specic device

. Press the [LEARNING-DEVICE] Soft Key.

. Select the Device you wish to erase the learned data

Caution: If you press [CONFIRM], You will lose all learned data for the selected device.

2) To delete all learned data for all devices:

. Press the [LEARNING-ALL] Soft Key.

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Caution: If you press [CONFIRM], you will lose all learned data for all devices.

3) To erase all setup data including the pre-program, MyPick and learning data:

Press the [SYSTEM] Soft Key.

Caution: If you press [CONFIRM] You will lose all programmed data including the pre-program, MyPick and Learning Data.

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4. Programming Your Devices

Here is the preferred method for programming your audio/video components:

1) Turn on your device to be controlled. (for example: your Stereo or Surround Amp [AUDIO]).

2) Press the [SETUP] Soft Key and then touch the [PROGRAM CODE] Soft Key.

3) Next select any Device you wish to program (For example: [AUDIO] Soft Key).

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4) You will see the screen on the right. Select the rst letter of your device brand name. [GHI] Soft Key for Harman Kardon)

You will see a list of manufactures brand names. Select HARMAN KARDON

Note: By pressing [NEXT/PREV] Soft Key on the touch panel and/or on the side, you can search the additional brand names.

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5) Press the [SELECT] Soft Key until your device turns off and then press [VERIFY] Soft Key. Your selected device will turn on again.

6. You will see a second page which allows you to test for compatibility; in this case, it is the [VOL-], [MUTE] and [VOL+] Soft Keys.

If your device works properly, press [SAVE] to store the programming code.

If your device doesn’t work properly, press [BACK] to use the next code and repeat step 5 to step 6 until all Soft Keys work properly.

7) When the [SAVE] Soft Key pressed, the remote will save the settings and return to normal operation mode (for example, AUDIO operation mode).

If you nd that you have saved the wrong code, repeat steps 1 – 7 above. You will start at the next available code for that device.

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4-1. To program the 2nd device (AUX1 – AUX 6 )

In order to program the 2nd device, touch one of the [AUX 1] to [AUX 6] Soft Keys (for example, AUX 1).

To assign the 2nd device on [AUX 1], touch one of the primary device’s Soft Key (for example, TV).

To program the 2nd TV on AUX1, repeat the above steps 4 to 7 again.

In order to reassign the other device on AUX1 (now AUX 1 is assigned for the 2nd TV ), touch [AUX 1] Soft Key (now labeled as TV) and select the other device you wish to assign.

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If the device is correct for AUX 1 but you wish to program the other Brand or Model, press the [NEXT] Soft Key and repeat the above steps.

4-2. Un-programmed Device

If the device is not pre-programmed, you will see the following warning message “Unprogrammed!” when any Soft Key is pressed/touched .

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You have to program the TSR/500 to work with your audio/video equipment for it to work properly. If it isn’t programmed, please repeat the previous steps in section 4.

5. Learn Code

The PROGRAM CODE illustrated previously in Section 4 is the preferred way to get your TSR-500 to work with your audio/video gear with the least amount of effort. The LEARN CODE feature permits a degree of protection against the TSR/500 becoming obsolete with technological advances in the audio/video realm. LEARN CODE also provides offers the ability to program individual keys with supplemental functions that may not be included in the standard pre-programmed library of program codes.

The standard code library provides most of the functions needed, but you can add a small number of additional functions of your choice. To use the LEARN CODE function, you will need the original remote that was included with your product.

Put the remote that you want the TSR/500 to learn from on a at surface. Next, place the TRC/500 remote facing your existing remote so that the front of your existing remote points at the front of the TRC/500 remote. Make sure that you keep about 2 to 4 inches between both remotes.

1) Press [LEARN CODE] Soft Key to enter learning mode.

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2) Select Device you wish to learn (for example, [TV]).

3) Select key to be learned. (for example, [2] Soft Key).

4) Press and hold the original remote key

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for the function you want to have learned. Make sure the remotes are facing each other during the learning process.

5) If the learning process is successful, you will see the message [LEARNING SUCCESS] on the LCD. To continue learning for other keys, press [CONTINUE]. To save the learned codes and exit for the operation mode, press the [EXIT] Soft Key.

6) If there is a problem with learning, the LCD display shows [LEARNING ERROR]. To return to learning for other keys, press [CONTINUE]. To exit the learning mode press the [EXIT] and then the previously learned codes will be saved.

7) Return to the normal operation mode by pressing [SETUP].

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6. Setting Up MyPick

Everyone in your household can set-up the TSR/500 to have their own user page with customized settings. You can have six independent MyPick channels, each with 32 keys AND each key having four-level Macros. This exibility lets you automate functions such as showing a DVD movie, which could include turning on your audio system, turning on your TV/Monitor and DVD, plus changing your Video and Audio signal paths. MyPick also allows you to simplify your remote control experience by grouping frequently used keys on your personal (MyPick ) pages.

Setting up MyPick is recommended AFTER you have nished programming all your devices and/or completed the LEARN CODE functions. When programmed, selecting MyPick will initiate a macro sequence of multiple operations by pressing just one Soft Key on your personal user page. There are a total of 6 MyPick groups for maximum of 6 different users and each group has 32 available macro keys and the sequence of a maximum of 4 commands could be stored on each macro key.

6-1. To add a key command on the Macro key.

1) In order to enter MyPick setup mode, press [SETUP MYPICK].

2) Select the “MYPICK” group you wish to program (for example, [MYPICK1]).

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3) Select one of Macro keys (for example, [KEY1]).

4) Press [ADD] Soft Key to store the rst sequence function.

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5) Select the Device you wish to program on the rst sequence command (for example, [TV]).

6) Press any key you wish to program (for example, [POWER] and then “the selected Device – Command” will be displayed).

Please repeat above steps 5 and 6 to add more commands.

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** Each MyPick group has 32 available macro keys and the sequence of a maximum of 4 commands can be stored on each macro key.

For example, to automatically switch the TV on and switch to channel “03” and play a VCR, you can store [TV-POWER], [TV-0], [TV-3] and [VCR-PLAY] commands on [Macro key 1]. By touching the [Macro Key 1] in MyPick, you can switch the TV on, change the TV channel to “03” and then instruct the VCR to start playing.

If you inadvertently program the wrong device or function to a MyPick key, you can easily delete and change the wrong key function. See the next section, 6-2.

6-2. To delete the stored command of the Macro Key

If you are in [SETUP MYPICK], select the appropriate key to be deleted. It will be highlighted.

Press the [DEL] Soft Key and the stored command will be deleted.

You can add a correct function command, by repeating steps 5 and 6 in Section 5-1.

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