X10 IconRemote IR34A, Owner'S Manual

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  Setting Up X10 Devices

The IR34A IconRemote - coupled with other X10 Home 
Automation Modules - gives you the ability to control 
everything electrical in your home. Once you set up your 
remote, you can control most any electrical device from the 
remote, using the keys that have been confi gured for X10 
Home Automation Modules. 

Description

X10 Home Automation systems use three types of signals - 
Infrared (IR), Radio Frequency (RF), and Power Line Carrier 
(PLC). The IR34A remote can send either IR, RF signals, or 
both, depending on how you’ve set up the remote to control 
different equipment. 

Setting Up Your Remote to Send RF commands

When the IR34A is in X10 mode, it transmits RF commands to 
X10 devices that respond to RF signals. The following example 
describes how to use RF to control a TV (so you can control it 
from anywhere in your home). Keep in mind that when you set 
up a non RF device to be controlled by RF signals, you need 
to use a device like the RE549, which converts the RF signals 
it receives back in to IR signals to turn the TV on or off (see 
pages 50 and 51 for more details). 

• Press 

Home

.

• Select 

Setup 

using the Side Key.

•  At the following screen select 

More

using the Side Key.

•  At the following screen select 

Wireless

.

• The 

Mode

 screen appears; select the 

Device you want to set for RF by 
pressing its Side Key. (In this example, 
it’s TV.) The RF symbol appears on the 
TV icon. Press 

OK

 to 

Save

.

Note:

 After following the above steps, 

when you make selections in TV Mode, 
you will notice that the transmit signals at 
the bottom of the screen are now 

Green

. 

This indicates that the remote is sending 
RF and IR to the TV. If the signals 
are in 

Red

, it means that the remote is 

transmitting IR only.

(6)

(7)

  Setting Up Your Favorites, cont.

Note: “Triple tap” name entry works in a similar fashion to text 
entry on a cell phone. Tap each numeric key to cycle through 
ALL caps, numbers, and lower case letters. E.g., repeatedly 
pressing the number 2 key cycles through A, B, C, 2, a, b, c. 
Pressing the 9 key cycles through W, X, Y, Z, 9, w, x, y, z. A 
“space” can be selected with the 0 (zero) key. The number 1 
key selects 1 . @ ? ! - & and :. You can backspace an entry with 
the key to the left of the 0 (zero) key. Press OK to confi rm your 
new name.

You can continue to add favorites, up to 
a total of 10 (You can add more later; 
see page 38.) At screen (6) you choose 
if the favorites you just set up are stored 
in the “His” group or the “Hers” group. 
Later you can set up favorites in lots of 
different Groups, not just His and Hers. 
Selecting His takes you to screen (7) 
showing that you now have NBC set as 
the fi rst favorite in the His Group (at the 
location next to Side Key K1), as well as 
any other favorites you set up. (Note, you 
can reorder, i.e., move the positions of 
the logos later.)

When you’re fi nished setting up your 
favorites, press the 

HOME 

key (located 

to the left below the screen) to go back to 
the Home screen.

At any time you can press the 

FAVORITE 

key and then select His, or 

press the His key at the top left hand side 
of the remote to go to screen (7) above. 
Pressing the key next to the NBC logo 
will (in this case) change the channel 
on your Cable box to NBC (in this case 
channel 4).

Note:

 See page 19 “Using the Remote” 

for related His and Hers features.