Xtender Installation Manual
Contents Chapter 1 Welcome Now You Can Setup Overview What You Need Basic Definitions Remote Lights – Understand What the Remote is Trying to Tell You Chapter 2 Installing the SuperCombiner Locate Your Cable/Satellite TV Box Locate the Splitter Find the main Cable Feed Connecting the SuperCombiner Chapter 3 Installing the Extender Typical Xtender Home Cable or Satellite System Select Location Connect Xtender Connect Audio/Video Devices Red Channel Setup Green Channel Setup Blue Channel Setup Connecting
Chapter 1 Welcome Welcome to the World of Whole-Home Entertainment Choices The BOCS Xtender will allow you and your family to Xtend the entertainment options from your main system to all the TVs in your home. This sounds like a simple proposition, but until now you could only do this by adding redundant equipment or have a very expensive and complicated audio/video distribution system installed in your home.
What You Need Tools Small pair of pliers Flat-blade screwdriver What's in the Box? Xtender Xtender Unit SuperCombiner Power Supply for Xtender Universal BOCS Remote Control Xtender Installation Kit Coax Power Adaptor Cable Finder Color Coded Combination Audio/Video Cables (3) IR Blaster Cables (3) Basic Terms used in this manual A/V Device – Anything like a DVD player, VCR, TiVo DVR, Cable box or other device that you plug into Xtender to watch throughout your home Xtender – The main Xtender device –
Remote Control Lights When in Programming Mode – The power light comes on and stays on. Generally you have 10 seconds to enter a command or the remote will exit Programming Mode.
What’s on the Front Panel? 1 Welcome 2 3 1. Learning Window Xtender has the ability to learn remote control codes just in case you can’t find one in our remotes that works. There is a simple procedure to follow in the “Programming the Remote” section. This window is where you point your remote control during that process to allow Xtender to learn to control things that are plugged into it. 2.
What’s on the Back Panel? 1 Welcome 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1. Power The AC adapter plugs in here – only use the adapter that came with Xtender! 2. Reset Button Pushing this button resets Xtender to its factory default settings 3. Red Channel Input Composite Video (Yellow) and Stereo Audio (Red/White) input to Xtender – whatever you plug in here will appear on the Red channel throughout the house 4.
What’s on the Remote? Xtender Channel Activity Lights 1 Xtender Channel Buttons 2 Menu 3 18. Power 19. Local TV 20. Live TV Info and “A” 4 21. Guide and “B” Exit and “C” 5 22. Last and “D” Mute 6 Up 7 Left 8 Down 9 Vol +/- 10 Play 11 Rewind 12 Stop/Slow 13 Replay and “PIP” 14 +100 15 Number Keypad 16 Del/Clear 17 23. Shift 24. Right 25. Select/OK 26. Channel +/27. Fast Forward 28. Pause 29. Skip 30. Record 31. Enter 32. Cable/Satellite 33. DVD/VCR/Laser Disk 34.
Installation Overview Easy as 1-2-3 Step 1 – Install SuperCombiner The SuperCombiner is a device that is installed just before your main home “root splitter” to distribute your new BOCS channels all over your home. In this step you will: Decide where to put your Xtender. Plug a special Cable-Finder into the nearest CATV outlet. Find and open your cable splitter box. Find the coaxial wire that goes to the room where you put Xtender. Install the SuperCombiner.
Chapter 2 Step 1 Installing the SuperCombiner Select Location for the Xtender Minimum Location Requirements • Coaxial cable outlet nearby • AC power nearby Likely Locations – Choose One: • • If you already have a stack of A/V equipment in one place (TiVo DVR, cable box, satellite box, DVR, DVD jukebox etc.), you can put Xtender on top of that stack of equipment. Or – you can move all that equipment to an out-of-the-way location (e.g.
room name in your cable splitter box. If not, we provide a tool in the installation kit so you can find the right wire. To find the right wire, we apply power to that coax wire so that an indicator light on the other end can identify when the correct wire is found. At the closest coax wire jack to the desired Xtender location, and unplug any cable attached to it. You are looking for the adapter that looks like this – it comes with the optional installation kit.
Locate the Splitter It will be in your cable box and will likely look like one of the following. And it will have wires hooked into most or all of its connectors, so it might be behind a cluttered mess. Find the Powered Cable The cable that was powered in the previous step should be connected to one of the outputs of the splitter. To determine which cable has been powered, unplug the cables one at a time and connect the Cable Finder Tool. If the red light doesn’t illuminate plug it back into the splitter.
Connecting the SuperCombiner • Plug the cable you located with the Cable Finder Tool in the step above into the Xtender port of the SuperCombiner. • Unplug the IN cable from your current splitter and connect it to the RF IN on the SuperCombiner. • Connect a short coax wire between the OUT of the SuperCombiner and the IN of your splitter.
Chapter 3 Step 2 Installing the Xtender Connect Xtender Remove the coax adapter and connect a coax cable from the nearby coaxial wire wall jack (usually located on a plastic plate mounted on a wall) to the “ANT IN” jack on Xtender. Make sure that you rotate the antenna so that it points straight up – this will give you the best range with your wireless remotes.
Red Channel Set Up • TiVo DVR with a cable box that it controls Connect the Device to the Xtender Connect the Audio/Video output of the device to the inputs on the Red channel of the Xtender. (white and red are audio Left and Right, yellow is composite video) Let’s start with a more difficult one – a TiVo DVR that uses a digital cable box to change channels and receive digital cable channels.
Connect the “IR Blaster” This cable lets Xtender control the A/V device – IR Cables come in the optional wiring pack. Locate an IR cable in your Xtender Installation Kit (sold separately). Plug the connector of the IR cable into the “IR Out” on the Xtender Red Channel. Locate the IR window on the device that you have plugged into the Red Channel. Peel the back off of the tape on the other end and stick it over the IR window of the audio/video device you previously plugged into the Red channel input.
Locate the IR window on the device that you have plugged into the Green Channel. Peel the back off of the tape on the other end and stick it over the IR window of the audio/video device you previously plugged into the Green Channel input. Blue Channel Set Up Default DVD Player/Changer Connect the Device to the Xtender As an example, we will connect a DVD player to the Blue Channel. Repeat the same steps as the Red Channel.
OR Using the RED Channel Out A/V cable connection allows you to pass the A/V device through to your TV for the best possible picture – many people connect their cable DVR box to the Red channel and when watching cable on the TV next to Xtender use the “Video” input on their TV. You can also simply connect your TV to Xtender using the Local-TV output from Xtender – now this TV will function just like all the rest of the TVs in your home and have full access to all the Xtender channels.
Chapter 4 Step 3 Programming the Remotes Three Steps to Programming the Remotes 1. 2. 3. 4. Pair remotes with your Xtender Pick a room, program a remote to work the TV in that room. Program red, green and blue channels Program the rest of the remotes for each room Step 1 – Pair Remotes Why am I doing this? Just like you only want your cordless phone talking to your own base station/phone line, you only want your remotes controlling your Xtender and not your neighbor’s.
• Enter the device code while pointing the remote at the TV – the power light should blink twice indicating a successful code was selected and a power command was sent to the TV. If you get a fast flash, there was an error – we suggest you exit program mode (press remote power button) and start over. • If the TV turns off or on press Select/OK to confirm you found the right code – the power light should blink twice to indicate that the code was saved successfully.
• Identify the device code from the list (Appendix A) • Simultaneously press the Green and Info buttons until the power button lights • Enter the device code – press “Select/OK” to confirm Remote power light should flash twice indicating success Blue Channel • Identify the device code from the list (Appendix A) • Simultaneously press the Blue and Info buttons until the power button lights • Enter the device code – press “Select/OK” to confirm • Remote power light should flash twice indicating success Exampl
6. Press the Select/OK button to accept the new code. Step 4: Program the rest of your remotes for each room This is exactly like step 2 – just grab a new remote, make sure it is Paired to your Xtender, and program it for the TV in the room where you intend to leave that remote.
More Programming Options Control other devices in the same room as the remote The Xtender remote is a full universal remote and can control other devices that are in the same room as the remote – the three buttons on the bottom of the remote (Aux, CBL, and DVD) can each hold the codes for a device of your choice • • • • • • • Decide on which device you would like to control with which button – for example we will program a JBL DVD player to be controlled by the DVD button Find the JBL DVD codes in the code
"TV" and "Live TV" - to restore the TV-Input button to its default behavior. 2. The power LED will turn on. 3. Press Select/OK to confirm. 4. If successful, the power LED will pulse twice and turn off. If the function failed, the power LED will pulse rapidly for one second, and then turn off. Channel Punch-Through: By default, the remote sends channel tuning buttons to the Local TV device when in local TV Mode.
2. Press and hold simultaneously for at least 2 seconds one of these combinations on the BOCS remote, to select which local device the learned codes will be associated with: "Local TV" and "Enter/#" for the local TV, "CBL" and "Enter/#" for the local CBL device, "DVD" and "Enter/#" for the local DVD device, or "AUX" and "Enter/#" for the local AUX device. 3. The power LED will turn on. 4. Press the button that the learned code will be assigned to on the BOCS remote (the receiving button). 5.
"DVD" and "Delete/*" for the local DVD device, "AUX" and "Delete/*" for the local AUX device, "RED" and "Delete/*" for the BOCS RED channel, "GREEN" and "Delete/*" for the BOCS GREEN channel, or "BLUE" and "Delete/*" for the BOCS BLUE channel. 2. The power LED will turn on. 3. Press the button to be unlearned. 4. The power LED flashes twice if the key was successfully unlearned, or flashes rapidly if unlearning failed. 5. To unlearn another button, go back to step 3. 6.
1 = send two digits for channel 99 or lower; send "+100" followed by two digits for channel 100 and above. This is the default. 2 = always send three digits. 3. Press Select/OK to confirm. 4. If successful, the power LED will pulse twice and turn off. If error, the power LED will pulse rapidly for a second, then turn off.
Chapter 5 Using the Remotes Controlling the TV Press the Local TV button, the remote will now control the TV. The remote automatically tunes the TV in front of you to your favorite TV channel. To set your favorite TV channel: • Press "Local TV" (to control the TV in front of you). • Enter a two digit channel number (which the remote will send to the TV as usual, tuning it to your favorite channel). • Press "Local TV".
When you press a button, one of the following buttons on the remote will light up briefly, indicating which device the remote is transmitting the button press to: • Red (button sent to the red channel device) • Green (button sent to the green channel device) • Blue (button sent to the blue channel device) • Local TV (button sent to the TV in front of you) • DVD (button sent to the DVD device in front of you) • CBL (button sent to the CBL device in front of you) • AUX (button sent to the AUX device in front
Troubleshooting: General Sometimes while I’m watching an Xtender channel, the channel or program changes It’s possible someone else in the house has pressed the same Xtender channel button and has taken control. Consider splitting the programs – perhaps Blue for kids and Green for adults.
Remote control is not as good as my Cable TV channels on the TV connected to the LOCAL-TV output on Xtender channels depending on what you want to watch – but Xtender needs to know which remote control you are using with this “Local-TV” so it can switch those signals to the TV properly – simply hold down Menu and VOL+ then press select/OK – Now when you press an Xtender channel button, the Local-TV output puts out a good quality Xtender channel signal, and when you press Local-TV it switches back to putti
I found a code for my TV or A/V device and some buttons work but others do not This is fairly common because many manufacturers use a slightly different code for each product they put on the market. So – you might have found a code that worked the power button and a few others but might not work the menu, or other buttons do not work – the simple solution is try other codes… Try them in this order: 2) Try all the codes in the category you are looking for (i.e.
pointed there until the TV goes where you want - some TVs take a while to respond. if the TV only sees one digit, wait until that clears before you try pushing the Xtender channel button again.
press Select/OK to confirm 1 for a pause time of 1/10th of a second (fastest channel changing) 2 for a pause time of 1/5th of a second (a little slower...
Appendix A Television Device Codes Television Admiral Advent 00093 00761 00817 25592 Aiko 00092 Akai 00812 00672 01903 25475 Albatron 00700 Ambassador 00177 America Action 00180 Ampro 00751 Anam National 00055 AOC 00030 Apex Digital 00748 00767 01943 Audiovox 00451 00623 01937 16662 25698 Aventura 00171 Axion 25647 Bell & Howell 00154 BenQ 01032 Bradford 00180 Broksonic 00236 01929 16386 25271 Candle 00030 Carnivale 00030 Carver 00054 Celebrity 00000 Celera 00765 Changhong 00765 Citizen 00060 00186 17662
Petters Philco Philips Pilot Pioneer Polaroid Portland Prima Prima Princeton Prism Proscan Proton Proview Pulsar Quasar RadioShack RCA Realistic Rhapsody Runco Sampo Samsung 00178 01926 17621 01523 00054 01454 01154 25836 00030 00166 01260 00765 01276 01326 01341 00092 00761 00817 00700 00051 01447 01922 00178 01498 00017 00250 00165 16546 00030 00165 01904 00047 00679 01247 01917 01948 16624 17444 00030 00178 00185 00017 00603 00030 00030 00702 01347 01919 16624 17419 Sansui 00030 00054 00690 01961
TV/DVD Combination Advent Akai Apex Digital Audiovox Audiovox Axion Broksonic Citizen Emerson 01933 01675 01943 01937 25647 01937 01935 01935 01394 25592 01935 25406 01951 25697 25647 25271 25271 25251 25271 01952 25698 25844 ESA Funai Go Vision Hitachi Insignia Jensen Konka Magnavox Panasonic 25844 25844 25647 01960 25844 01933 25295 25844 01941 Lloyd's Magnasonic Magnavox 01904 01928 01904 16977 16624 01926 17546 16624 01917 16546 17646 01911 16863 01919 17546 01919 17419 01919 17546 01904 25823
Cable & Satellite Box Device Codes Appendix B Cable Box ABC 04099 04113 Americast 04995 Amino 05698 Bell & Howell 04110 Bell South 04995 Clearmaster 04979 ClearMax 04979 Coolmax 04979 Digeo 05283 Digi 04733 Director 04572 Dumont 04733 Gen.
Video Device Codes Appendix C DVD Player Accurian Advent Aiwa Akai Alco Allegro Amphion M.W.
Laser Disk Player Carver Denon Disco Vision Harman/Kardon Hitachi Magnavox Marantz 20674 20539 20652 20503 20674 20503 20674 20697 20674 Mitsubishi NAD Optimus Panasonic Philips Pioneer Polk Audio 20539 20539 20539 20684 20674 20539 20503 20674 Quasar Sega Sony Technics Theta Digital Yamaha 20684 20503 20673 20681 20684 20674 20697 Penney 16419 16426 17621 16426 16419 16419 17123 16421 16451 16465 17977 16624 16444 16456 16423 16419 17546 16384 16421 16421 16444 16533 17419 16419 16431 16998 18000 18
Teac Technics Teknika Thomas Tivo TMK Toshiba 16384 16419 16419 16384 17002 17124 17624 16624 16429 17392 18356 16425 16546 16421 16384 17020 17123 17129 17623 18380 17887 16427 17229 17529 17887 18380 Totevision Touch Unitech Vector Vector Research Video Concepts Videomagic Videosonic Viewsonic Villain Voodoo 16421 16624 18356 16624 16429 16422 16429 16421 16624 18356 16384 18356 Wards White WH XR-1000 Yamaha Zenith ZT Group 16444 16431 16384 16533 16593 16419 16422 16423 16593 18356 16419 16432 1
Appendix D Auxiliary Device Codes Audio Amplifier Adcom Bose Curtis Mathes Durabrand Elan GE Harman/Kardon JVC 33345 33442 33068 34329 33415 32846 33660 33099 Left Coast Lenoxx Marantz McIntosh Optimus Philips Pioneer Polk Audio 33660 34329 33660 33019 33163 33660 32781 33660 RCA Realistic Sony Soundesign Victor Wards Yamaha 33068 33163 33583 32846 33099 32846 33122 33874 32927 33824 34253 33883 34412 34298 33640 Marantz Motorola NaviPod Netgear Omnifi Roku 34259 34232 34412 34553 34373 34596 Rus
Marantz MCS Mitsubishi NAD Norcent Nova Onkyo Optimus Oritron Panasonic Philips Pioneer 29861 28861 28711 30065 28992 30061 30061 28807 29992 29695 29342 30038 29980 28981 30220 30436 29861 29938 29695 29941 28711 29961 29514 30203 28858 29746 30169 30190 29960 30305 Polaroid Polk Audio Proscan Quasar RadioShack RCA 29970 29203 28711 29988 30435 29941 28861 28686 28822 Rio Samsung Sansui Sanyo Sharp Sharper Image Sherwood Sirius Sonic Blue Sony 29203 30180 28861 29926 28711 29935 29695 29203 30183
Show Current IR Codes programmed into the remotes This function outputs an indication of the IR codes currently set for all the local IR devices and the devices attached to the BOCS red, green, and blue channels, by flashing the corresponding LEDs on the remote. Once you get your system up and running well, it is a good idea to record all the codes you are using in case you ever need to reprogram the system.
Remote Control Special Function Quick Reference Function: Pair a remote to an Xtender Set IR device type Key Combination(s) MENU + CH_UP TV + INFO DVD + INFO CBL + INFO AUX + INFO RED + INFO GREEN + INFO BLUE + INFO Scan IR device type TV + GUIDE DVD + GUIDE CBL + GUIDE AUX + GUIDE RED + GUIDE GREEN + GUIDE BLUE + GUIDE Learn IR pattern for key and device TV + ENTER DVD + ENTER CBL + ENTER AUX + ENTER RED + ENTER GREEN + ENTER BLUE + ENTER Unlearn IR pattern for key and device TV + DEL/CLEAR DVD + DEL/CLEA
