Programming
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These default files are provided to give the technician the ability to become familiar with
the menus and options within the 280 and 284 without the need to be connected to a tone
remote. The specific menu items available for programming based on your remote's
firmware version is only determined by the Zipr programming utility when a remote is
read and the firmware configuration is obtained.
Saving Files
ZIPR has two commands in the (F)ile menu for saving the programming for a remote to
disk. The commands are “(S)ave” and “s(A)ve as”.
The (S)ave command takes the file that is currently open in the computer’s memory and
saves it to disk. If the directory already has a file by the same name, ZIPR will warn the
technician of this and give him or her an opportunity to cancel the save so that the open
file can be named something different. If the technician chooses to go ahead with the save
then ZIPR will overwrite the existing file on the disk.
The s(A)ve as command also saves the currently open file to disk, however, it first
prompts the technician to provide a new name for the file to be saved under. This name is
actually the descriptive label that shows up in the open file window (see
not the DOS file label used when saving the file to disk. The technician should use a label
that identifies the site location or system the remote is used at so it will be obvious in the
future what the file was for. The s(A)ve as command will also prompt the technician for a
decision if it finds that there is already a file with the same name.
If you try to exit the ZIPR program after opening and editing a file, without first saving the
file, then the ZIPR program will warn the technician that the data will be lost and give him
or her a chance to cancel the “e(X)it” command so the file can be saved. If the decision is
made to go ahead and exit anyway, then the work done and changes made to that file will
be lost.
Feature Set Reference
A quick reference to the programmable menu items found in ZIPR for the Digital Tone
Remotes (especially for when you cannot turn on your PC and open the programming file)
is provided here. The list covers all of the programming choices displayed when the (E)dit
window is opened for a Model 284 remote. Those items that apply only to the Model 284
are marked. The parameters are grouped according to the menus in which they appear.
Programmable Key Functions
The functions listed here are all assignable to any of the programmable function keys #1
through #9. Any functions that are specific to a particular key will be noted as such.