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1. Backup Make a backup of the current programmed configuration locally on your device You will be prompted for the name of the backup e Restore Restore a backup stored locally on your device You will be presented with the list of saved programs from which you select the one to restore Care should be taken when restoring from a file which was edited outside of Mote While the file is checked for consistency not all errors can be detected Touching the Edit button allows you to delete saved configurations e Backup to Google Drive Save the current program to Google Drive You will be prompted for your Google user name and password and then for the name of the backup file The program is saved as a property list in XML format Restore from Google Drive Restore a program saved in a file stored in your Google Drive You will be presented with a list of your files the plain text files only stored in your Google Drive Again care should be taken when restoring from a file that was edited outside of Mote When you restore a configuration either from a local or remote backup you will be prompted whether to replace or append the current programming If you choose to replace then the backup will simply replace the current programming If you choose to append then the backup will be appended to the current programming This is useful for example to add a new set of templates from another user or add a new device When2. delay 0 0 seconds display none delay Wait the specified delay time in AISIDIFIGIHIJIKIL seconds before sending the command Delays a 6 Oe Oe Se ee ee amp are useful when sending a sequence of commands For example say you have a sequence of commands which first turns on your receiver and then sets its input to the DvD 123 space return player You may wish to delay the command Figure 29 which selects the input until the receiver has a chance to to turn on so it is ready to respond to subsequent commands If you do not require a delay then select O 0 seconds Most single commands will not require a delay display NOTE for IR devices controlled by an SQ Blaster or Global Cache controller this field will be labeled IR repeat which is described below Most commands are one way commands That is you send a command without expecting a response However if a command returns a response then you can display it immediately via a pop up window or by updating a button label or the position of a slider or switch If displayed using a pop up window and the command is part of a sequence the sequence will be suspended until you dismiss the pop up window at which time the sequence will resume Binary responses are displayed in the same format as displayed in the Log window The following options are available none Don t display any response Most commands will use this option 32 e text
3. The maximum image size in either dimension is 600 pixels for a non retina display iPhone 1200 pixels for a retina display iPhone and 1024 pixels for a non retina display iPad 2048 pixels for a retina display iPad Images for retina displays need to have twice the resolution as images for non retina displays There is no minimum size If the image is smaller than the display size in one or both dimensions then it will be tiled to fill the display For reference the size of the display for the non retina display iPhone 4 is 320 x 480 pixels 640 x 960 pixels for the retina display iPhone 4 and for non retina display iPads is 768 x 1024 pixels Images must be named using the png extension For retina display devices they must be named using 2x before the extension That is an Apple convention for identifying high 11 resolution images Thus for a retina display device you would name the previous example images as p_grass 2x png and l_grass 2x png Images intended for a non retina display will show on a retina display however since they are at a lower resolution than the display they will appear blocky The file name must not use the name of one the provided backgrounds after stripping off the p_ and I prefix and the png and 2x png suffix Thus the following names can not be used leather stucco green marble brown marble aluminum tile asphalt concrete wood old wood
4. button type button A button sends a sequence of Edit Control commands when you press it The command sequence can be sent once or at regular intervals while the button is being held pressed The control editor for a button is shown in Figure 24 The button s appearance is shown in the type switch upper left hand corner and will be updated as you change its properties The color of the button can be changed by selecting the Color poll button A button can have an image a label or both assigned to it Selecting Image presents ON COMMANDS you with a large selection of common images TV on used on remote controls as well as any custom Delay 0 0 seconds images you may have already loaded There are more than one page of such images swipe right or left or touch on either side of the page selection indicator on the bottom of the screen TV off to view the different images When you see the a Figure 25 Design gt OFF COMMANDS Delay 0 0 seconds image you want just touch it to select it Labels can be static or can be updated with responses Figure 26 28 to queries discussed later The repeat attribute determines the delay between finishing one command sequence and starting the next If you do not wish the button to repeat which is probably true for most buttons set repeat to none the default value slider A slider allows you to select a value from a ran
5. Find SQ Blasters button will appear Press it and you will be presented with a list of SQ Blasters on your network Select the one you want and the IP Address and port fields will be filled out appropriately This is the recommended procedure when using SQ Blasters to assure that you get the correct IP address of the device Global Cache Mote supports Global Cache s GC100 and iTach devices Global Cache devices differ from most other devices in that they can be communicated with over multiple ports Most commands including commands to send IR commands and control and poll relays led lighting and digital sensors use port 4998 However serial commands are sent to ports 4999 and higher depending on how many serial ports are on the Global Cache device Thus you may have to define more than one controller when using a Global Cache device For communicating with port 4998 to control IR devices relays led lighting and digital sensors define a controller using the Global Cache protocol and port 4998 Using the Global Cache protocol is required in this case as IR commands for Global Cache devices are treated 15 specially For communicating with serial devices port 4999 and higher you ll need to define an additional controller for each serial port you communicate with Use the TCP or TCP no response protocol depending on the device you re controlling and port 4999 or higher refer to the docu
6. This will put the Edit and Help buttons on the home screen Once you are Programinio Mode done programming Mote you may want to set this to OFF so that other users can t easily change the Quick Program programming ojojo Auto Lock e Quick Program Turn ON to add an Edit button to each button panel allowing you to quickly _ program the buttons for that device template activity P SPlay Potala ane eee without going through the programming home Button Click C screen Once you are done programming Mote you may want to set this to OFF so that other users Font Auto can t easily change the programming Button Grid e Auto Lock Turn OFF to disable the system Grid Lines auto lock feature In this case the screen will not automatically blank and lock after the specified time Figure 33 of inactivity e Display Use this setting to specify whether activities only devices only or both activities and devices are displayed when not in programming mode This has no effect on programming mode when both activities and devices are always displayed e Button Click If turned ON then a button click sound will be emitted when a button is pressed and continue to click if the button repeats and is held e Font The font size to use for button labels If set to Auto then the font size for each button will be adjusted so that the label fits the button Otherwise a
7. Watch Tv Gi Watch Blu Ray Environment Lights Curtains Figure 18 23 3g Activities Press the Activities button on the programming home page to edit your activities You will be Home Theater presented with a list of your activities with the familiar iPhone editing controls to add delete edit or re order your activities Figure 19 Use the tabs 6 Watch TV Listen to Music on the bottom of the screen to select the room whose devices you wish to edit the room tab bar e Watch Blu Ray will appear only if you have more than one room defined To program buttons for the activity click Gi on its row in the list this will be discussed later To edit the attributes of an existing activity such as its name and the commands assigned to gestures for that activity touch the info symbol i at the end Lights O of the row for that activity Curtains Gi Environment Editing the attributes of an existing activity or adding a new activity will present the activity editor window Figure 20 The only attribute of an activity is its name Figure 19 Edit Activity Gestures name Watch Blu Ray Each activity may have a separate command GESTURES sequence assigned to each of five gestures exactly the same as with devices Similarly as with swipe right next panel devices if no commands are assigned to either the swipe right or swipe left ges
8. A theme simply defines the default appearance of your controls buttons sliders timers and switches and the background control panels You may change your theme at any time However since your theme specifies the default color used when creating new controls you ll want to choose the default color before creating all of your controls 2 Setup your rooms You need do this only if you wish to use rooms to organize your controllers devices and activities Initially you will be set up with a single room If you don t need rooms just stick with the single default room 3 Define your controllers You can t define a device without first defining its controller and you can t define commands without defining the devices you ll send them to so the first step is to define your controllers 4 Define your device groups You must define at least one device group per room to put your devices in 5 Define and program your devices 6 Define your activity groups You must define at least one activity group per room to put your activities in 7 Define and program your activities To program Mote press the Edit button on the home screen Figure 2 Note if the Edit button is not present then turn on the Programming Mode option in the Mote settings menu in the system Settings application The home page for programming mode will appear Figure 3 If you ve specified a programmer password you will be prom
9. a fully programmable Wi Fi remote Use your iPhone iPad iPod touch to control any ethernet enabled device which communicates via TCP UDP HTTP or HTTPS Mote is programmable directly on your iPhone iPad iPod touch allowing you to layout buttons the way you want with full macro functionality Mote is designed primarily for the home automation do it yourself hobbyist iPhones iPads and iPod touches do not have IR transmitters Additional hardware is required for most home theater applications though some home theater devices are Wi Fi enabled Mote has applicability beyond home automation Any device that can be controlled via TCP UDP HTTP or HTTPS should be controllable using Mote Mote does provide specific support for the SQ Blaster a hardware IR blaster with a built in IR code database for most home theater devices as well as Global Cache GC100 and iTach devices Throughout the manual specific instructions are provided when using an SQ Blaster or Global Cache device This manual is for the latest version of Mote Some features are not available in earlier versions All figures are for an iPhone the iPad interface will look somewhat different NOTE Mote sends commands via wi fi It should not be used for applications where loss of wi fi or a bug in the code could cause irreparable harm to life or equipment Please refer to the disclaimer 2 Basic Concepts The following basic concepts are central to understanding and programmin
10. appending if your backup contains a room with the same name as a current room then the room from the backup will be added as a new room with a number appended to the new room name to differentiate it from the old room When restoring a configuration any panel of buttons that doesn t fit your device s screen size will be compressed to fit the screen This is useful when transferring your programming from a device with a large screen such as an iPad to a device with a smaller screen such as an iPhone On the Restore page below the list of your backup files is a button entitled Reset Reset erases all programming deleting all of your rooms controllers devices activities templates device groups activity groups and template groups use with caution 38 5 Using Mote When you re done programming Mote you may want to go to the system Settings application oe E and turn off the Programming Mode preference for Mote This removes the Edit and Help Home Theater buttons from the home page for Mote thus preventing other users from easily changing the programming If you later need to change Mote s programming just go back to the Settings Watch TV application and set Programming Mode to on Listen to Music Watch Blu Ray An example home page is shown in Figure 32 Touch the room tab at the bottom of the screen for the room whose activities and devices you
11. device must be running iOS 4 or higher In iTunes click on your device then click on the Apps tab Under File Sharing click on Mote and you will be presented with a list of all of the backups you ve made on your device as well as the file config plist You should avoid config plist as that is your current configuration is stored in a binary format and you could wreck havoc if you mess with it Better to save your current configuration as a backup file You can simply drag backup files from this list to your desktop to copy it to your computer and vice versa to make an external file available for restoring from Do NOT delete or replace the config plist file e You may also save and restore configurations to and from your Google Drive Files are saved as plain text files in XML format When restoring from Google Drive you will be presented with a list of just the plain text files stored in your Google Drive Thus when loading an external file into Google Drive for download to Mote be sure to load it as a plain text file 37 Google Drive likes to convert plain text files to one of their formats To prevent that name the file with the extension txt and turn conversion off in your Google Drive upload settings To make or restore a backup press the More button on the programming mode home page The More Program window will appear Figure 31 with the following backup restore options
12. gray for a room icon will occur automatically e Your images must not be named the same as one of the pre supplied icons or they will be ignored The following names are currently used for pre supplied icons the png and 2x extensions have been dropped in this list right left up down arrow right arrow left 41 arrow up arrow down arrow right 2 arrow left 2 arrow up 2 arrow down 2 arrow right 3 arrow left 3 arrow up 3 arrow down 3 power power green power red plus plus thick minus minus thick stop pause fbw ffw bskip fskip soskip sfskip rec rec red rec green slow louder softer mute eject search zoom plus Zoom minus check menu shuffle brighter dimmer repeat zero one two three four five six seven eight nine ok enter set clock sun moon snow lock open lock closed house window open window closed door open door closed fan light light on open close no heart paw double bed single bed plate wine glass cherries tv 1 tv 2 bathtub garage music scissors butterfly To upload a custom image into Mote use iTunes File Sharing Start up iTunes and connect your device Click on the device in iTunes to display its properties Click on the Apps tab Under File Sharing select Mote from the list of apps Below the panel entitled Mote Documents click the Add button to add one of your custom images 42
13. string and the closing f indicates this is a floating point number The number to the left of the period specifies the width in characters of the formatted string including any period itself and the number to the right of the period specifies the number of digits after the period If the number to the left of the period starts with a 0 then the formatted string is padded with O s on the left to fill the full width To format the output as an integer specify a O to the right of the period Thus the string SetTemp VAL 0f would send the string SetTemp 29 You can use most C string formatting features for example to output an integer in hexadecimal or octal format We ve also extended C formatting to support sexagesimal output This is most useful when using timer controls which output floating point values Thus s will output a value as HH MM and S will output a value as HH MM SS For example if your timer outputs a VAL of 1 5 the format string VAL 02s would output 01 30 Command strings sent using the TCP TCP no response or UDP protocols may also embed binary data sequences of bytes where each byte has an integer value between 0 and 255 Hexadecimal encoded binary data may be embedded by enclosing it with h and decimal encoded binary data embedded by enclosing it with d Thus for example you may send the string hello
14. 5 0 75 1 0 1 25 1 5 1 75 and 2 0 If you use the HUD the values are displayed in HH MM format However the VAL token is set to a floating pointing representation i e 1 5 rather than 1 30 This is to give the user greater flexibility formatting the output timer interval as described later in the manual in the Commands section Most users will not need to use timers switch A switch allows you to send one set of commands when the switch Is in the on left position and another when it is in the off right position The control editor for a switch is show in Figure 26 Press the Design button to design the appearance of the switch including its color image label and the labels for the on left and off right position which replace the usual ON and OFF labels Commands are sent only when the switch position actually changes Switch commands can t be set to repeat at regular intervals Note that the control in the control editor is active Command sequences will be sent when you interact with the control and poll commands discussed later will also operate Thus you can test out the control directly in the editor Each control can have a sequence of commands assigned to it which is executed when you interact with the control You can add delete and reorder commands with the usual iPhone 29 editing controls Edit an existing command by selecting it in the list of comma
15. Display the response as simple text in a pop up window e html Display the response as HTML in a pop up window e RSP Update the button label or slider switch position using the response The RSP string can be edited to parse the command appropriately Any occurrences of the string RSP in display will be replaced with the command response You can display just a portion of the response using the string RSP X Y where Y is a single character used to split tokens in the response and X is a number between 0 and 9 specifying which token to display O indexed This is best explained using an example Say you query a temperature controller which returns four temperatures separated by commas For our example say the response is 32 6 38 3 40 2 29 7 If you want to display the entire response as is set display to RSP If you want to display just the second temperature 38 3 set display to RSP 1 The 1 says to display the second token we re 0 indexed and the is the separator between tokens Leading and trailing spaces around a token will be stripped before displaying it If the tokens were separated by spaces then you would substitute the comma in display with a space This example would also work with a slider the slider position would be set to 38 3 Alternatively you can parse the response by selecting a substring based on character position using the nomencl
16. ED COMMANDS Launching Applications POWER TOGGLE In addition to sending commands to devices you POWER ON can also launch a different application on your iPhone iPad such as a music server For example POWER OFF you can have a single button send a series of commands to turn on your stereo set the input to VOLUME UP your Apple TV and then launch the Remote application so you re ready to select the music you VOLUME DOWN want to listen to When you launch a different Figure 30 application Mote of course terminates Quitting the different application does not return you automatically to Mote To launch a different application just select an application from the list of applications at the end of the device list A number of standard music servers are already listed including Remote Spotify Pandora IPeng and last fm The device field will be set to application and the command field will be filled in with a URL that launches that application You can also choose custom which will leave the command field blank allowing you to enter a custom URL appropriate for the application you d like to launch Of course the application must be installed on your iPhone iPad Applications must register a URL to enable this launching feature To see a list of applications and their registered URLs see the website handleopenurl com The URLs for some applications including the def
17. Mote User Manual Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Basic Concepts 3 Programming Mote 3a Themes 3b Rooms 3c Controllers 3d Device Groups 3e Devices 3f Activity Groups 3g Activities 3h Template Groups 3i Templates 3j Controls and Panels 3k Commands 4 Backups 5 Using Mote 6 Settings 7 Custom Icons 10 13 14 18 19 23 24 25 26 2 32 37 39 40 41 Disclaimer THIS SOFTWARE IF PROVIDED BY WORRIED CAT LLC AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL WORRIED CAT LLC OR ITS MEMBERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS BUSINESS INTERRUPTION DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AND TO THE EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW PERSONAL INJURY HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE THIS PRODUCT IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF ANY EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE PRODUCT COULD LEAD TO DEATH PERSONAL INJURY OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE 1 Introduction Mote turns your iPhone iPad or iPod touch into
18. Q space return Figure 9 17 3d Device Groups Press the Device Groups button on the Device Groups programming home page to edit your device groups You will be presented with a list of your Den device groups grouped by room with the familiar iPhone editing controls to add delete edit or re Home Theater order your groups Figure 10 Only groups that contain no devices may be deleted Editing or Environment adding a device group simply prompts you to edit the name of the group A device group need not have a name Master BR If you d rather not use device groups just define a single unnamed device group per room to which you assign all the devices for that room E Guest BR a Iil om Le 2 wn Figure 10 18 3e Devices Press the Devices button on the programming home page to edit your devices You will be presented with a list of your devices with the familiar iPhone editing controls to add delete edit Home Theater or re order your devices Figure 11 Use the tabs on the bottom of the screen to select the room Receiver whose devices you wish to edit the room tab bar e TV will appear only if you have more than one room defined To program buttons for the device click Blu Ray Player on its row in the list this will be discussed later To edit the attributes of an existing device such as DVR its name controller and the commands assigned to gesture
19. a display devices and 60 x 60 for retina display devices They cannot be any larger Your images must be png files e Images must be named using the png extension For retina display devices they must be named using 2x before the extension That is an Apple convention for identifying high resolution images For example say you have an image that represents a DVD player and you want to name it dvd Assume it is the minimum allowed size For a non retina display device the image would be 30 x 30 pixels and you would name it dvd png For a retina display device the image would be 60 x 60 pixels and you would name it dvd 2x png Images intended for a non retina display will show on a retina display however since they are at a lower resolution than the display they will appear blocky Images should use a transparent background Any images you add will be available both as button icons and room icons though they will be available as a room icon only if they are the minimum size However for room icons the images will be turned into monochromatic gray images no matter their color This is Apple s convention for icons that appear on a tab bar at the bottom of a screen which is how rooms are selected in Mote Thus your image will appear in full color when you select it as a button icon but in gray when you select it as a room icon You need only provide one image the conversion to monochromatic
20. ature RSP X Y where X and Y are the first and last characters to display respectively 0 indexed Thus for the previous example RSP 10 11 would return 40 You can combine the token and character based parsing For example RSP 1 0 1 would return 38 Finally you can embed the response within a larger string For example if you wanted the button to display the string Temp 38 3 deg F you would set display to Temp RSP 1 deg F For switches you need to parse the string to the point where it is equal to one of the values associated with the on left or off right position of the switch as set using the buttons left value and right value when editing the polling for a switch RSP can be replaced with HEX to convert a hex response to a decimal integer Say your device returns a value in hex in the format VAL 98F where 98F is a sample return hex value To display that value in an integer slider you would set the display variable for the command that queries the device to HEX 1 lf a command which is supposed to display its response fails then its failure will be indicated by setting the label on a button to blank or by setting the color of the thumb of a slider or switch to gray for sliders this only works on devices running iOS 5 or later Most commands will likely use it s associated controller s via the target devic
21. ault ones listed in Mote can be customized to enter the application at a specific point such as listings of genres artists etc These details are given at handleopenurl com Wake on LAN Mote can send Wake on LAN signals to servers Choose the Wake on LAN option from the device list For the command enter the broadcast IP address and the MAC address of the server separated by a single space character for example 10 0 1 225 00 11 22 33 44 55 36 4 Backups You can save your current program on your device switch between programs for multiple locations as well as providing the ability to save different Template Groups configurations while programming You may also export and import your programming as XML Templates formatted property lists allowing you to e Backup your programming remotely from your Backup device Restore e Easily transfer programming between your various devices Backup to Google Drive Edit your configuration with external software Restore from Google Drive such as Apple s property list editors e Share your programming with other users Operator Password e For professional installers easily program your Programmer Password clients devices by just installing a configuration file Figure 31 There are two ways to export import programmed configurations All program backups are available as XML formatted property list documents via iTunes File Sharing your
22. e default command string For example in Figure 29 we re sending the command on to the device receiver Let s assume that the device receiver has an identifier of amp and that our controller is a Logitech Squeezebox Server using the TCP protocol The appropriate default command string for a Squeezebox Server is 33 irolaster send DEV CMD Then for this example amp is substituted for DEV and on is substituted for SCMD in the controller s default command string and what is actually sent to the controller is irolaster send amp on You can override the controller s default command string by preceding your command with For example if you set the command string to version then the full string sent to the controller would be version If you wish to send a command whose first character is then just set the beginning of the string to For sliders you can embed the current value of the slider in the command string using the string VAL Thus a command to set a temperature might look something like SetTemp VAL You can control the format in which VAL is sent by appending a C style formatting string enclosed by a pair of colons Thus if your current temperature was 28 523 deg SetTemp VAL 05 1f would send the command string SetTemp 028 5 In a C style format string the inital simply indicates this is a format
23. e order your controllers Editing or adding a controller will present the controller editor window Figure 8 Each controller is characterized by the following attributes e name The name of the controller will be used Add Controller when assigning devices to controllers e protocol The protocol used to communicate name SqueezeCenter with the controller The supported protocols are TCP TCP no response UDP HTTP protocol TCP HTTPS SQ Blaster and Global Cache The TCP protocol waits for a response after each command which the user has the option of ignoring or displaying separately for each command The TCP no response never waits timeout 1 0 seconds for a response IP address 10 0 163 8 port 9090 command irblaster send DEV C IP address The IP address i e 10 137 248 2 or hostname i e www mycontroller net of the terminator LF controller o port The port number that commands will be sent to on the controller For example the Test Connection default port number for HTTP is 80 Figure 8 timeout The timeout period when sending a command to the controller Any command which has not completed within the timeout period will be considered to have failed and the command sequence will be aborted The timeout period is ignored for devices using the UDP protocol command The default command string sent to t
24. e the current panel as a template panel You will be prompted with the list of templates Select the template to which you wish to add this panel to Note that the commands assigned to the buttons will also be copied to the template e Cycle Panel Right Move the current panel one slot right in the list of panels for this device activity template If its already the right most panel then it will cycle around to become the first panel To switch from the current portrait panel to the first landscape panel or from the current landscape panel to the first portrait panel just rotate your iPhone iPod to the appropriate orientation 31 3k Commands When you select a command in a list of commands or select the add command button while editing a button or gesture the command editor window appears Figure 29 Each command has the following attributes command The command string to send The Add Command format of this string is discussed below device The device to send the command command on string to selected from the list of currently defined devices The command string is device Receiver actually sent to that device s controller which in most cases will then relay the command to the device You can also choose to launch a different application rather than sending a command to a device or send a Wake on LAN signal see below for details QUIWFETRETIYIULILFTOERP _ N a N S a ne
25. etting Set design scheme to use for home page Figure 6 change the theme at any time The theme applies to all panels for all devices and activities Home Page Theme The home page theme Figure 6 is defined by Background The background for the home page Pressing the Background button will offer you a selection of various backgrounds including your own custom backgrounds if they were previously loaded e Groups Text Color The color for the groups label e g Home Theater in Figure 6 Different colors stand out better on different backgrounds The Default Setting button will return you to the default theme which is gray labels on a brown marble background Custom Backgrounds You can install your own custom background images which will then be available for both the control panel and home page background The following rules apply e Your images must be png files The file name must begin with p_ for portrait orientation or I_ for landscape orientation For example if you had a background image of grass you would name the portrait orientation image p_grass png and the landscape orientation image _grass png p_grass 2x png and l_grass 2x png for a retina display device see below It is not necessary to provide both portrait and landscape orientation images if only one is provided then it will be used in both orientations rotated appropriately
26. g Mote e Controller A controller is a piece of hardware which responds to commands sent via one of the supported protocols TCP UDP HTTP HTTPS A controller can be a computer running an appropriate server or a standalone piece of hardware with a wired or wireless ethernet connection Mote talks directly to controllers over the iPhone iPad iPod touch s wireless ethernet connection Controllers then relay commands sent from Mote to those devices which they control e Device A device is a piece of hardware which you wish to control such as a television DVD player a lamp etc Commands sent by Mote to a controller are relayed by that controller to one or more devices In some cases a device may be the same as It s controller For example a TiVo DVR can receive Wi Fi commands directly and thus be it s own controller Device Group For display purposes devices may be logically grouped For example you may wish to group related devices by their function i e Home Theater or location i e Living Room e Activity An activity is any activity you may perform which involves one or more devices but which logically involves one set of controls An example of an activity is watching a movie This may involve your television DVD player receiver and room lights You d like to control all devices involved in that activity from a single set of controls An activity allows you to do so e Activity Gro
27. ge of values and send commands embedding that value using the VAL token in command strings described later The control editor for a slider is shown in Figure 25 Press the Design button to design the appearance of the slider including its color the image and label to assign to the minimum and maximum values whether it is vertical or horizontal and whether a heads up display HUD shows the current value as you operate the slider The range button is used to specify the minimum and maximum values of the slider and whether it uses floating point or integer values For most uses you ll want to set repeat to none meaning the command sequence associated with the slider is sent only when the slider is released You can set it to an interval in which case the command sequence Is sent at regular intervals as long as you re touching the slider using the slider value at that time When repeating there is a one second delay when you first touch the slider to give you time to initially position the slider before the first command is sent timer A timer is a slider for selecting time intervals It functions exactly like a slider where the range of values is in hours You also specify a time interval in minutes The slider can only output values that are integral values of that interval For example if you specify a range of 0 to 2 hours and an interval of 15 minutes then the slider will only output the values 0 0 25 0
28. he controller This is described in more detail below this will not appear for the SQ Blaster protocol 14 The following two attributes further apply to the TCP TCP no response and UDP protocols e terminator Terminate all command strings with these characters The available options are LF linefeed CR carriage return LF CR linefeed followed by a carriage return CR LF carriage return followed by a line feed HomeVision and none The HomevVision option is specifically for HomeVision controllers which use different terminators for sending commands and receiving responses If you require a terminating character other then one of the supported options then set this to none and add the terminating character to the controller s default command string See below hold If ON hold the socket connection open continuously If OFF open the socket connection before each command is sent and close it immediately after each command is sent SQ Blasters The SQ Blaster protocol supports SQ Blaster devices from Square Connect There is no default command string for SQ Blasters as all commands are either chosen from the built in IR code database or learned using the IR code learning capabilities of the SQ Blaster Nor is there a timeout parameter SQ Blasters advertise themselves using bonjour Thus when you select the SQ Blaster protocol a
29. he rest of your controls Most users won t need the polling capability Watch Blu Ray Watch Blu Ray LETA Delete This Panel Panels Add Portrait Panel Each newly created activity device or template has a single portrait panel You can add delete Add Landscape Panel and move panels by selecting the panel button in the upper right hand corner of a button panel see Figure 27 Doing so displays the list in Figure 28 You have the following mostly self evident options Cycle Panel Right Delete This Panel Delete the current panel You must always have at least one portrait panel Cancel Figure 28 30 Add Portrait Panel Add a new portrait panel Add Landscape Panel Add a new landscape panel Add Button Template This adds a pre defined template of buttons to the current panel This only works if the panel is blank has no buttons You will be presented with a list of the templates Select the desired template and the first panel for that template will be displayed If there is more than one panel for that template you can swipe or touch on either side of the page indicator to view the available panels Press the Save button upper right hand corner when you identify the panel you want to use It can be faster to start with a template and change it than starting from scratch Beware that templates may already have commands assigned to buttons Save Panel To Template Sav
30. her than continuously holding it After a second or so the code should appear on the screen in Mote See the manual that came with your iTach for further instructions on learning commands All commands that you learn are available for assignment to buttons and gestures The button in the upper right hand corner on the screen listing all learned commands allows you to export the commands you have learned to a file or import a set of previously learned commands These learned command files can be transferred to and from your iPhone using iTunes File Sharing Thus for example you could learn commands using an iTach IR device and then transfer them to devices controlled by a GC100 controller which doesn t have built in IR learning capabilities 22 3f Activity Groups Press the Activity Groups button on the programming home page to edit your activity groups You will be presented with a list of your activity groups grouped by room with the familiar iPhone editing controls to add delete edit or re order your groups Figure 18 Only groups that contain no activities may be deleted Similarly to device groups editing or adding an activity group simply prompts you to edit the name of the group An activity group need not have a name If you d rather not use activity groups just define a single unnamed activity group per room to which you assign all of the activities for that room Home Theater Listen to Music
31. ight next panel swipe left previous panel swipe up swipe down shake Figure 13 Select Brand unknown select unknown if you can t find a code set for your device You will have to learn all commands A ABS Access HD Accurian ADA ADB Figure 14 N lt xXS lt CHOMHDWOVOZSrFAC TOAMMOIIOAWFsy 20 types TV amplifier etc for that particular brand l Figure 15 Choose the appropriate device type You ll then be presented with the first code set for that combination of brand and device type Figure PANASONIC 16 Different manufacturers use multiple code sets for their devices You can use the arrow buttons at the bottom of the screen to switch between different code sets Press the green Test button for a command to see if it works the Cable SQ Blaster will blast that command When you find a code set that works press the Save button DVD at the top of the screen Blu Ray CD DVD PVR Combo Besides using the built in IR codes you can also learn IR codes using the SQ Blaster Press the DVD VCR Combo green Learn button next to the IR code set identifier Figure 13 You ll be presented with alist Home Theater System of previous learned commands for that device as well as a button to learn a new command Press that button and you ll be presented with the learning screen Figure 17 Enter a command name which you ll use when assigning that command to b
32. ill be discussed later To edit the name an existing template touch Gi the info i symbol at the end of the row for that template Pre Supplied Unlike devices and activities templates do not have associated gestures Figure 22 26 3j Controls and Panels Each activity device and template can have multiple panels of controls in both portrait and landscape orientation each must have at least one panel in each orientation even if it has no controls Selecting an activity device template in the activity device template list will display its first portrait panel of controls Figure 23 Controls To add a control to a panel just touch the panel where you d like the control The button will appear highlighted with a delete button X in the upper left hand corner of the button a resize button double headed arrow in the upper right hand corner of the button and a copy button C in the lower left hand corner of the button e g see the MUTE button in Figure 23 To edit an existing control just touch it and it will be similarly highlighted with delete resize and copy buttons When a control is highlighted you may e Touch the delete button to delete the control Touch and drag the resize button to resize it e Touch the copy button to make a copy of the control in the paste buffer Touch and drag the control itself to move it e Touch and release the control to edit its properties
33. including its appearance and the command sequence assigned to it To copy and paste a control highlight it and then touch the copy button to copy it to the paste buffer Then double tap the screen where you d Watch Blu Ray E eae ee el ed Need b VE ee ee Figure 23 Edit Control Image gt Color gt type button label repeat blaster poll release COMMANDS e TV POWER ON Delay 0 0 seconds Figure 24 27 like a copy of the control and a copy will be placed there The copy includes the commands Edit Control assigned to the original control If you have not a oe e Design gt copied a control then double tapping will not do anything soft loud A type slider When you resize or move a control its location and size is forced to align with a grid to ease the design of your control layout Use of the grid can be disabled by setting the Mote preference repeat none Button Grid to OFF in the system Settings application By default grid lines are displayed to range 0 100 integers facilitate button layout these may be hidden by poll setting the Mote preference Grid Lines to OFF COMMANDS B TV volume When you touch a highlighted control to edit it the Delay 0 0 seconds control editor window will be presented The exact appearance will depend on the type of control Mote supports four types of controls most users will only require the
34. l only require buttons Any control can be programmed to automatically send a sequence of commands at regular intervals referred to as polling Further if a command returns a response any control can parse and display that response either as a label on a button or as the position of the slider timer or switch Panel A panel is a single set of controls on the display of your iPhone iPad iPod touch Each activity and device can have multiple panels of controls in both portrait and landscape orientation e Gesture Besides sending command sequences using controls you may also send command sequences using gestures This is particularly useful when looking at the display for the appropriate control may be inconvenient The supported set of gestures includes swipe right swipe left swipe up swipe down and shake Each device and activity has its own sent of command sequences assigned to each gesture Template A template is a pre defined panel of controls which can be copied to a blank panel for an activity or device Templates ease programming by provided standard button configurations Templates are fully programmable Template Group For display purposes templates may be logically grouped For example you may wish to group templates for all devices from the same manufacturer The combination of device activity groups and rooms provides a 2 level organizational hierarchy For example in Figure 1 we have four r
35. le you would set the default command as irblaster send DEV CMD Then since each command is assigned to a specific device which will be described later you need only assign the command on to the button to send the full command The default command string is ignored when sending IR commands to a Global Cache controller Testing the Controller The green Test Connection button at the bottom of the window allows you to send a test command to your controller to verify that you ve entered the correct information for your controller and that all is working properly It opens a new window Figure 9 that allows you to enter a test command The controller s default command is ignored in this case since we haven t defined any devices yet so you must enter the full command string to send to the controller If the command returns a response you can display the response as either plain 16 text or HTML via the display button if the Test Command command does not return a response set display to none Click the Send button to send the test command command irblaster send amp on When connecting to SQ Blasters you are not prompted for a command string Pressing the Test Connection button simply tests that a connection can be made to the SQ Blaster without sending an actual command Test command to send to the controller The default command will be ignored display none 123 F
36. mary in any of the three following ways hello mary d104 101 108 108 111 mary 34 h68 65 6c 6c 6f mary Each encoded byte is separated by one or more spaces The spaces are not included in the output string encode them if you want their equivalent within a binary string Binary substitution is done after CMD and DEV are substituted Thus if sending data via a controller which takes only binary data set its default command string to A SCMD Then you may assign each button its binary command without the enclosing h Commands sent using either the HTTP or HTTPS protocols are simply appended to the controller IP address or hostname to form the URL used to issue the command Continuing the example we used above assume our Squeezebox Server controller has an IP address of 10 192 0 8 and we re communicating to it using the HTTP protocol The appropriate default command string in this case is status txt p0 irblaster amp p1 send amp p2 DEV amp p3 CMD After replacing amp for DEV and on for CMD the full URL used to issue the command is then http 10 192 0 8 status txt p0 irblaster amp p1 send amp p2 amp amp p3 on The utility of the controller s default command string is obvious Rather than having to enter a lengthy command string for each button you simply select the device you re sending the command to and enter the short command you wish to send such as o
37. me button on the programming home page to edit your theme The theme editor will appear Figure 5 You can define your theme for your control panels and the home page Control Panel Theme The control panel theme Figure 5 is defined by Background The background for button panels Pressing the Background button will offer you a selection of various backgrounds including your own custom backgrounds if they were previously loaded Default Button Color Newly created buttons will be this color however you can change an individual button s color at any time Black or gray buttons work best The more colorful buttons are really intended for the occasional button you may want to be obvious You can also choose clear buttons the last color choice indicated as a dim white square in which case only the button icons and labels will appear on a panel Transparent Buttons If off then buttons are completely opaque if on then they are partially transparent lending them a glass like appearance The top of the window offers a preview of your selected theme so you may try out various themes and see how they appear The default theme consists of opaque black buttons on a gray leather background You can Background Default Button Color Transparent Buttons Set design scheme to use for all button panels Figure 5 Home Theater Watch TV Background Groups Text Color Default S
38. mentation that came with your Global Cache device Global Cache devices advertise themselves When using the Global Cache protocol you can press the Find Global Cache Devices buttons to find all Global Cache devices on your network Allow up to 60 seconds for all devices to be found Default Command string The default command string for the controller greatly simplifies how one assigns commands to controls and gestures One typically sends a formatted command string to the controller which includes the identifier for the device you wish to control as well as the command to send to that device For example if your controller is a Squeezebox Server you might send the following command to the controller to turn on your receiver irblaster send receiver on In this example command string the controller is sending the command on to the device named receiver We can assign that full command string to a button and it would work However that will involve a fair amount of typing when multiplied by the number of buttons that you ll want to define for that device Rather than having to assign a full command string to each command you can define a default command string for each controller with place holders for the device identifier and the specific command you wish to send to that device The strings DEV and CMD serve as the place holders for the device identifier and command respectively For the current examp
39. n IR Devices For IR devices controlled by an SQ Blaster or Global Cache controller you don t directly enter the command Rather you choose from the list of commands from the IR code database for SQ Blasters as well as any commands you have learned for that device Press the command field in Figure 29 which will look slightly different indicating it will display another screen A listing of all the learned and supplied commands will be presented Figure 30 Simply choose the command you wish to use For IR devices the display field in Figure 29 is replaced with IR repeat IR devices don t return responses that can be displayed If a button sends a single command to an SQ Blaster this field will be ignored the SQ Blaster continuously sends the IR code as long as you hold the button If on the other hand the command is part of a Sequence of commands assigned to a button or is assigned to a poll button or is talking to a Global Cache device then this field 35 controls how many times the IR code is blasted For most applications setting this to O should work that is the IR code will be sent once with no repeats If you find that the command is failing LEARNED COMMANDS then try increasing the repeat count Some devices need a command to be repeated before it will respond see the manual that came with your SQ Blaster or Global Cache device for more information mute on mute off SUPPLI
40. nds editing commands is discussed later Delays may be added between commands Switches have both an on sequence of commands and an off sequence of commands Buttons can also execute a separate sequence of commands when you release the button programmed using the release option see Figure 24 Care should be taken with release commands as if you rely on the release command and you loose your wi fi connection the release command may not be received Most users won t need release commands All controls can be used to poll devices Pressing the poll button in any control editor will allow you to specify a sequence of commands which are sent automatically by the control at regular intervals This is typically used to regularly query a device and display the results on the control itself this will be discussed later The command sequence is always sent whenever a control s panel appears If a repeat interval is specified then the command sequence will continue to repeat at that interval until the panel is exited Care should be taken when polling Controls don t respond to touches Cod whenever a command sequence Is being sent out Thus if your polling sends out a sequence of Figure 27 commands with built in delays they can freeze out your remaining controls You should typically use polling to send out just a single command which as long at it responds quickly should not affect the responsiveness of t
41. omatically be exited from programming mode if this password is set To unset a password simply enter a blank password WARNING Use passwords with caution If you forget a password there is no way to recover it and you will not be able to operate and or program Mote The Log button upper left hand corner on the main Program page will display the 20 most recently transmitted commands along with their responses and any errors This is provided primarily to help in debugging programming so that one can see the fully parsed command and its response Any terminating newlines or carriage returns are explicitly indicated using n and r respectively If either a command or its response contains binary characters then the entire string will be printed out as a hexadecimal string enclosed within angle brackets lt gt to indicate the string is binary encoded Each byte is printed as a 2 digit hexadecimal string 00 ff with four byte groups separated by a space to ease readability For example if a command received a binary response consisting of the six bytes 0x00 0x14 Oxa6 Oxc3 0x01 0x00 it would be displayed as lt 0014a6c3 0100 gt When finished programming touch the Done button Figure 3 which returns you to Mote s home page The Help button on the home page displays help information including a User Manual button that displays this manual 3a Themes Press the The
42. ooms listed along the tab bar on the bottom of the screen Just click on the room whose activities devices you wish to view In the figure we have rooms Den Master BR Guest BR and Kitchen Selecting More will bring up a list of your additional rooms Currently we have selected the room Den and are displaying its activities using two activity groups Home Theater containing activities Listen To Music Watch TV and Watch Blu Ray and Environment containing activities Lights Curtains and Heat Most users probably don t need two levels of organization in which case you may use either groups or rooms depending on which interface you prefer By default you start with a single room named House If you have only one room then the room tab bar at the bottom of the screen will not be displayed To organize using just groups keep that single room To organize using rooms just use a single unnamed activity group and device group in each room Rooms need not be actual rooms They may represent whatever organizational structure you prefer Home Theater Listen to Music Watch TV Watch Blu Ray Environment Lights Curtains Figure 1 3 Programming Mote You must of course program Mote before it can do anything useful This chapter describes how to program Mote The typical order to follow when programming is 1 Select your theme
43. parquet fabric water clouds dark gray gray light gray To upload a custom background image into Mote use iTunes File Sharing Start up iTunes and connect your device Click on the device in iTunes to display its properties Click on the Apps tab Under File Sharing select Mote from the list of apps Below the panel entitled Mote Documents click the Add button to add one of your custom images 12 3b Rooms Press the Rooms button on the programming home page to edit your rooms You will be presented with a list of your rooms with the familiar iPhone editing controls to add delete edit or re order your rooms you may delete only those name Den rooms which don t contain any controllers devices or activities The order in this list image __ determines the order of rooms along the tab bar in the main window Editing or adding a room will present the room editor window Figure 7 Each room is characterized by the following attributes name The room name ATSIDIFIGIHTJIKEL image An image used to represent the room me 7 XICIVIBINIM Each room must have at least a name or image and can have both 122 Be space return Figure 7 13 3c Controllers Press the Controllers button on the programming home page to edit your controllers You will be presented with a list of your controllers with the familiar iPhone editing controls to add delete edit or r
44. pted for the programmer password before entering programming mode Most options are self explanatory Just press the appropriate button to edit your rooms controllers device groups devices activity groups activities and theme The More button presents a second page of programming options Figure 4 The second page allows you to program your templates and template groups save and restore your programming discussed later and set passwords Program Rooms Controllers Device Groups Devices Activity Groups Activities Theme More Figure 2 Figure 3 Most users won t need passwords however the a More Program option is available Two passwords are available Operator Password If this password is set Template Groups then it must be entered to operate Mote You will be prompted for the password whenever templates Mote starts up or resumes operation in the foreground Backup Programmer Password If this password is Restore set then it must be entered to program Mote You will be prompted for the password Backup to Google Drive whenever you press the Edit button on Mote s home page unless you previously Restore from Google Drive entered the password and Mote has not quit or gone into the background since then If you are programming Mote and it is forced to the Operator Password background or your iPhone iPod is put to Programmer Password Figure 4 sleep then you will aut
45. s for that device touch the info i Gi symbol at the end of the row for that device SSe Environment Editing the attributes of an existing device or adding a new device will present the device editor window Figure 12 Each device is characterized 1 f by the following attributes Maste l itche Figure 11 name The name of the device This name will be used when assigning commands to Edit Device devices e controller The controller used to control this name receiver device selected from the list of currently defined controller SqueezeCenter controllers identifier amp identifier The identifying string by which the controller knows this device This may or may GESTURES not be the same as the device name For some controllers this may be a cryptic identifier which swipe right next panel is why a device has both a name and an identifier This string is substituted for the string swipe left previous panel DEV in a controller s default command string for any commands which target this device and use the controllers default command string more on that later Swipe up receiver vol up swipe down receiver vol down shake receiver mute Figure 12 19 Gestures Each device can assign a separate sequence of commands to each of five gestures swipe right swipe left swipe up swipe down and shake Select a gesture to edit its command sequence editing command sequence
46. s will be discussed later If no command sequence is assigned to the swipe right gesture then swiping right changes to the next panel of buttons for that device panels are discussed later Similarly if no command sequence is assigned to the swipe left gesture then swiping left changes to the previous panel of buttons for that device For the remaining gestures if no command sequences are assigned to them then they do nothing SQ Blasters Devices controlled by SQ Blasters are handled differently as we access their IR commands directly from the built in IR code database When the device is controlled by an SQ Blaster instead of Figure 12 you ll see Figure 13 The identifier field in Figure 12 is replaced in Figure 13 with a field labeled IR code set There is no identifier for a device controlled by an SQ Blaster Rather you must select an IR code set for your device Press the IR code set button the white part of the button not the green Learn button on it which won t be present anyway if you haven t yet chosen a code set and you will be presented with a list of brands Figure 14 Choose the brand for your device If there is no code set for your device choose unknown in which case you ll have to learn all of the commands After choosing a brand you ll be presented with a list of device Edit Device name TV controller Blaster internal IR code set 1286 GESTURES swipe r
47. selection of four fixed font sizes are available which may cause a label to be truncated on a button if it doesn t fit Button Grid Set to ON to force the resizing and placement of buttons to lie on a grid which aids button layout e Grid Lines If set to ON a grid of lines will be displayed when editing button panels to facilitate button layout The lines are separated by four times the spacing used when Button Grid is on 40 7 Custom Icons Users may add their own custom icons for use both as button icons the image on a button not the image of the button itself and room icons Any icons you add will appear in the image selector when assigning an image to a button or a room The following rules apply The required size for icons depends on whether your device has a retina display or not Images for retina display devices need to have twice as many pixels in both width and height as images for non retina display devices The minimum size for button icons are 30 x 30 pixels for non retina display devices and 60 x 60 pixels for retina display devices The maximum size is 200 x 200 pixels for non retina display devices and 400 x 400 pixels for retina display devices The size of the pre supplied icons is 30 x 30 pixels for non retina display devices and 60 x 60 pixels for retina display devices so that is the recommended size Icons need not be square e Room icons must be 30 x 30 pixels for non retin
48. ter Plus Global Cache QUIWTETRITIYIULILIOIP les Devices controlled by a Global Cache controller are also handled differently When you touch the identifier button Figure 12 you ll be presented ae Z X C VIBIN Mis with a screen prompting for the module and ee r connector you re addressing on your Global Cache 123 Q Space return product refer to the documentation that came with a is your Global Cache product for how its various device ports are addressed You ll also be asked to select whether the device is an IR device or not If the device is an IR device then a green Learn button will appear next to the identifier in the main device editing page similar to Figure 13 though IR code set will instead be identifier Touching the Learn button will present a list of previously learned commands as well as a button to learn a new command Press that button and you ll be presented with the learning screen Figure 17 Enter a command name which you ll use when assigning that command to buttons and gestures You can then either enter the IR code directly or more usefully use an iTach IR controller to learn the command Simply hold your remote with the emitter pointed at the learning port on your Figure 17 iTach Press the Learn button in Mote then press and release the button on your remote that you wish to learn Unlike SQ Blasters pressing and releasing the button works best rat
49. tures then those swipe left previous panel gestures change to the next or previous panel of buttons respectively for that activity swipe up swipe down shake Figure 20 24 3h Template Groups Press the Template Groups button on the More Program programming page to edit your template groups You will be presented with a list of your template groups with the familiar iPhone editing controls to add delete edit or re order your groups Figure 21 Similarly to device and activity groups editing or adding a template group simply prompts you to edit the name of the group A template group need not have a name If you d rather not use template groups just define a single unnamed template group to which you assign all of your templates Mote comes packaged with an initial template group named Pre Supplied This group contains a single template named Home Theater which offers a number of pre defined panels of buttons both portrait and landscape appropriate for home theater applications Template Groups Pre Supplied Figure 21 25 3i Templates Press the Templates button on the More Program programming page to edit your templates You will be presented with a list of your templates with the familiar iPhone editing controls to add delete edit or re order your templates Figure 22 To program buttons for the templates B Home Theater Q click on its row in the list this w
50. up For display purposes activities may be logically grouped For example you may wish to group related activities by their function i e Home Theater or location i e Living Room Room You may further group controllers device groups and activity groups by the room they are located in If you choose rather than grouping by room you can group by whatever makes sense to you Command A command is a single command sent to a controller which is then typically relayed by the controller to a device For example a command might be to turn a television on e Control A control is any interface element used to send a command or sequence of commands Mote supports four types of controls buttons sliders timers and switches A button is like any button on a typical remote control except that a button in Mote can send either a single command or a sequence of commands For example to start up your home theater to watch a movie a button might send a sequence of commands to turn on your receiver set its input to the BluRay player turn on the television turn on the BluRay player and dim the room lights A slider allows a user to select a value from a range of values and send commands with that value embedded in the command A timer is similar to a slider but sends time values Switches allow you to send two different sequences of commands depending on whether the switch is in the on or off position Most users wil
51. uttons and gestures You can then either enter the IR code directly or more usefully use the SQ Blaster to learn the command Simply hold your remote with the emitter about an inch Sree ean from the learning port on your SQ Blaster Press MODEL ALL MODELS the Learn button in Mote then press and hold the button on your remote that you wish to learn Keep the button pressed until the code appears on POWER OFF the screen in Mote See the manual that came IPod Figure 15 POWER ON with your SQ Blaster for further instructions on INPUT COMPONENT 1 learning commands All commands that you learn are available for assignment to buttons and INPUT COMPONENT 2 gestures To learn a toggle code the button on the remote toggles between two different codes INPUT HDMI 1 use the Lean button to learn the command twice a INPUT HDMI 2 this is an experimental feature most users won t need this Use the Test button to send the INPUT HDMI 3 learned command a 1of9 The original SQ Blaster had only a single emitter Figure 16 21 The SQ Blaster Plus has both an internal emitter as well as four IR ports to which external emitters may be attached Thus when you select an SQ Blaster as the controller you must also select the emitter to use either internal for the original SQ Blaster or for the internal emitter on the SQ Blaster Plus or one of port 1 4 to use the external emitters on the SQ Blas
52. wish to pent view the room tab bar will appear only if you have Lights more than one room defined Touch the appropriate button at the top of the screen to list Curtains that room s activities or devices If you wish to list either just your activities or just your devices on the home page set the Display preference in the Settings application Figure 32 Just touch the activity or device you wish to use Its first portrait panel of buttons will appear To change to another page touch on either side of the page indicator at the bottom of the screen or if you haven t defined commands to the swipe right or swipe left gestures for that activity device then just swipe right or left To go to the first landscape panel of buttons for that activity device just rotate your iPhone iPad iPod When a button is pressed it will highlight while sending the command sequence NOTE When iPhone applications go into the background or are terminated they are allowed roughly 10 seconds to finish what they are doing Thus if you hit the home button to suspend or terminate Mote while it is sending a sequence of commands even though the application appears to quit it will continue to send the commands 39 6 Settings Selecting Mote in your iPhone iPad iPod s system Settings application displays the set of preferences in Figure 33 Programming Mode Turn ON to allow lt Settings Mote programming Mote
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