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Universal Electronics Nevo User Manual

User Manual
6101 Gateway Drive, Cypress, CA 90630-4841, USA. www.uei.com
Nevo™ User Manual

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About Nevo...........................................................................................2
Key icons defined ................................................................................ 26
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About Nevo

Congratulations, your PDA now includes Nevo, the new evolution in home control from
Universal Electronics, the leader in wireless control technology. Nevo transforms your
PDA i
nto a sophisticated and easy-to-use wireless home control and automation device.
With Nevo, accessing every infrared (IR) controlled device in the home or office has
never been easier or faster. Control more than 20 device types, such as televisions,
VCRs, DVDs, audio, lights, fans, and other home automation devices.
Overview of Nevo’s Features
Besides controlling your devices, Nevo also allows you to:
• Set up your favorite channel for easy, one-touch access.
• Organize devices by the rooms in which they are located.
• Share Nevo with other family or team members (called users) and allow
them to maintain their own unique settings for devices and activities.
• Create one-touch access (macro) to switch between activities that involve
interacting with more than one device. For example, you could assign the name “Watch DVD” to a series of commands that dims the lights in your family room, turn on the DVD player and press Play.
• Configure the look and feel of Nevo to reflect your personal perferences.
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Understanding infrared technology
The home page explained
Quick reference to icons and buttons
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Understanding infrared technology

Infrared (IR) technology allows devices to communicate without wires. Using the beam of
infrared light from an electronic display, such as your PDA, Nevo can connect with any
office, entertainment or home automation equipment that supports infrared
technology, giving you the freedom to wirelessly access and control your devices.
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The home page explained

The device wheel in the middle of the home page shows all the available devices.
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The Power button (
Above the device wheel are icons for the page types: home (
and favorites (
) turns on the device at the top of the wheel.
), control screen(s) ( ),
).
Below the device wheel are icons for the configuration menus: customize (
rooms (
If you press the KeyGuide icon (
), and KeyGuide ( ).
), a menu shows the type of directional control provided by
the hard keys, which are navigation, controls or transport.
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), user ( ),
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Quick reference to icons and buttons

Page type icons
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Device wheel icons
Configuration icons
Key icons defined
Program hardware buttons
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Page type icons
These icons are located at the top of the home page.
Home icon. This icon returns you to the home page.
Control screen(s) icon. This icon displays the keys available for the device shown at the
top of the wheel on the home page. Tap the arrows (
) to see all of the pages of keys for
this device.
Favorites icon. This icon displays your favorite channel settings (television) and other
favorite activities that you set up.
You can press the cycle button (
button (
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) to change pages within the control screens.
) on your hard keys to change page types and the page
Device wheel icons
The device wheel fills the center of the Nevo home page.
Power icon. This icon turns the power on or off for the device at the top of the wheel.
Two icons on the wheel let you add devices and activities.
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Add devices icon. This icon starts the device setup wizard, which allows you to tell Nevo
which device you want to control.
Add activities icon. This icon starts the activities wizard, which allows you to set up a one
touch macro to issue commands to multiple devices when switching activities like watching
DVD.
The rest of the icons on the device wheel represent specific devices you have set up for the
room shown at the bottom of the home page.
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Configuration icons
These icons are located at the bottom of the home page.
Customize icon. This icon displays the customize menu. What you can customize
depends on the page type: home, control screen(s) or favorite(s). When shown on a network
logo in the favorites area, this icon indicates that a favorite selection can be configured.
User icon. This icon displays the user menu. By setting up a new user profile for each
family or team member, each user can specify their own favorites.
Rooms icon. This icon displays the rooms menu through which you can select the room
containing the device(s) you want to use. From this menu you can add or delete devices based
on the room in your house or office building.
KeyGuide icon. This icon lets you change the functions available when pressing hard
keys. See below for more information on the Navigation/Action button.
Tapping this icon is the same as pressing the keys button on your hard keys.
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Program hardware buttons
These are the physical buttons on your handheld device. A pop-up display (called the
KeyGuide) appears when you press the keys button. The KeyGuide identifies what each of the
hard keys does.
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Cycle button ( on the KeyGuide). This button changes page types and cycles
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between home (
), control screen(s) ( ) and favorite(s).
Page button ( on the KeyGuide). This button changes control screen pages.
Another way to change pages is to tap one of the arrow icons at the bottom of the control
screen.
Keys button ( on the KeyGuide). This button changes the KeyGuide type, which
defines what happens when you use the hard keys. There are three KeyGuide directional
control settings:
= Navigation (directional control)
= Controls (channel up/down, volume up/down, mute)
= Transport (rewind, fast forward, play, stop, pause)
The icon changes depending on the currently selected directional control setting.
Mute button ( on the KeyGuide). This button turns sound on and off.
Navigation/Action button. This button's functionality depends on the
directional control setting you selected.
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Setting up a device

Before you can use Nevo to control a device, you must add the device to the device wheel.
Each device has a control code that identifies its characteristics. Nevo provides device control
codes for thousands of brands of devices. You can download more device control codes from
MyNevo.com.
The first time you run Nevo, you'll see only two icons in the device wheel:
• The add devices icon
• The add activities icon
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Tap the add devices icon (
Using Nevo's wizards
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) or tap > Add Device... to start the Device Wizard.
Using Nevo's wizards
The wizard always displays the on-screen keyboard even though you don't need it for all
pages.
As you use the wizard:
To exit immediately from any page, tap Cancel.
To go back a page, tap Back.
When you've completed a page, tap Next.
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Select the device type
Tap the arrow to open the types list and select the device type, for example, Television.
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