UNIVERAL REMOTE MX850

No More Pointing - RF Capabilites

Radio Frequency (RF) operation provides up to 100' range though walls, floors and doors, indoors or outdoors. Self-adhesive "emitters" affix to the infrared sensors on the front panels of your components. The emitters relay IR commands to components out of sight to the MRF-250's/MRF-300's RF base station front blaster. The emitters plug in to the MRF-250's/MRF-300's RF base station rear flasher line outputs via their 10 foot cables. Six flashers with visual feedback are included with each MRF-250/MRF-300 RF base station.

 

RF Addressing Offers Up To 15 Equipment Locations

The MX-850 can be programmed to operate equipment placed throughout the house, by installing an MRF-250 or MRF-300 RF base station at each location. In operation it's simple: when you select a device located in the home theater, the MX-850 talks to the RF Base station (either MRF-250 or MRF-300) in the home theater. This makes possible a dream come true! A macro may be programmed to turn off all of the TVs in the entire house with one touch. Simply install an additional MRF-250 or MRF-300 at each TV location.

 

RF Routing Allows For Control Over An Array Of Identical Components

The MRF-250 and MRF-300 RF Base stations enable your installation to control up to six identical TVs or other identical components (VCRs, CD players, etc.) by routing your commands only to the device you select on your MX-850. The other identical TVs will not receive commands. This allows you to have independent control of identical devices. Very useful with devices such as cable boxes, those usually are the same make and model throughout the house.

 

Extensive Macro Programming

The powerful memory of the MX-850 offers up to 912 potential macro buttons. Each of these macros can play back recorded sequences of commands that completely automate a complex system with one touch. A macro can record and play back up to 190 steps with time delays between steps when desired. For example: a single touch to the ON button could turn on the TV, the surround sound system, and the satellite receiver, then set the TV to the correct video input, the surround system to the right audio settings, and finish by selecting your favorite satellite TV channel.

 

FEATURES AND BENEFITS:

• Controls Up To 20 Components

• Windows Based PC Software

• 50 Favorite Channels

• One Hand Ergonomics

• EL Back Lighting

• Memory Back-Up

• Centrally Located Joystick

• New Center Select Button

• Laser Etched™ Buttons

• PC Programmable

• IR/RF

• Replace up to 20 remote controls

• Favorite channel direct access button

UNIVERAL REMOTE MX950

Power Plus Style

The MX-980 is a powerful wand-style custom control designed to advance the state of the art of Home Theater programming and integration. Achieving an apex of power, style and versatility, it enables professional installers to more quickly and efficiently customize and automate sophisticated Home Theaters and whole house A/V systems — while empowering their owners to handle them as naturally as a race car driver hugs the road.

 

Ideal for homes with one or more A/V systems, the MX-980 is as intuitive for installers to program as it is for users to operate. Its unique synergies automate and simplify operation of even the most complex home systems. Its many highlights include a big, bright color LCD display, an open programming architecture, Narrow Band RF capability, and seamless integration with other control devices.

 

Ergonomics and Customization

The MX-980’s display shares the vibrant color capabilities of URC’s popular MX-3000 Remote Control with an active matrix LCD that offers a 320x240 pixel window to any graphic an installer would like to provide, including BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF and animated GIF files, all of which can be assigned to any of eight adjacent activity buttons.

 

Interoperability

The MX-980 also integrates more strongly than other remotes with URC’s breakthrough MSC-400 Master System Controller. The MSC-400 flawlessly harnesses the power of sophisticated home entertainment systems to provide installers with options and advantages not otherwise available. It offers triggered macros, RS-232 and relay control, video and voltage sensors, and many more features — taming system complexity, while delivering unmatched flexibility, automation power, installation speed, and diagnostic capabilities.

 

With or without the MSC-400, the MX-980 is an exceptionally versatile remote that delivers automation solutions for every purpose as well as superior entertainment. Like the MX-3000, the MX-980 is programmable by any Windows-compatible laptop or desktop PC with a USB port. The port provides access to a vast array of custom solutions, available free of charge using URC’s proprietary Complete Control Suite programming software, available online at the URC Control Room.

 

Selecting a New "Activity"

WATCH and LISTEN buttons on the MX-980 display activities users can control. When a user wants to watch something else (a DVD, a videotape or an HDTV broadcast), he or she simply presses the WATCH button and selects the new activity. When a user wants to listen to the radio or a CD, he or she touches LISTEN. Then, with the press of the button, the MX-980 automates the entire routine of turning on components, selecting inputs and favorites, even resetting the lights to the optimum scene for the selected activity.

 

OpenArchitecture PC Editor

The MX-980’s unique OpenArchitectureTM PC Editor provides professional installers with new solutions to the age-old problem of automating a central system as well as local TVs, cable or satellite receivers, and even local surround systems in secondary rooms like bedrooms and offices. Using the MX-980, installers can simply select an appropriate solution for each equipment location.

 

Built-In Versatility

In the central system, for example, the MX-980 can trigger sophisticated smart macros, RS232 and relay controls via a centrally installed MSC-400 Master Controller. At each local system location, the MX-980 addresses an RF Base Station, like URC’s new MRF-260, which extends the remote’s range to 50 to 100 feet, and eliminates the line-of-sight requirement. In any room with a projector, lighting switch or other IR-controlled device not connected to a central MSC-400 or local MRF, the MX-980’s built-in IR signal is effective at a range of 30 to 50 feet.

 

Motion Sensor

The MX-980 is packed with practical features for users as well as installers. These include a motion sensor that automatically turns on the display when the remote is picked up and refreshes when it’s moved, and automatic blue backlighting for all the buttons to ensure the remote can be used easily in dim or darkened rooms. A small integrated speaker optionally beeps in response to button pushes, indicating the MX-980 understands an instruction. A built-in time/date display, a low-battery alert, a rechargeable lithium ion battery, and a supplied USB programming cable further enhance its ease of use.

 

FEATURES AND BENEFITS:

• PC Programmable

• IR/RF

• MX-980 OpenArchitecture PC Editor

UNIVERAL REMOTE MX-3000

In a unique synthesis of hardware and software engineering, Universal Remote Control has revolutionized the standards of custom installers for color touch screen automation. The Complete Control™ MX-3000 offers some superficial similarities to previous touch screen offerings. However, in this review of the hardware and software specifications, it should be clear that the power of this new design offers custom installers and end users long needed relief in a number of key areas. The twin goals of the design team were to improve the elegance and usability of touch screens through the physical design while streamlining the programming process to REDUCE THE TIME required to install a touch screen.

 

Physical Ergonomic Principles

Touch screens for automating and controlling home theaters have been an important tool in the arsenal of custom installers for years. The usefulness of the touch screen lies in the installer's power to control the user interface and customize it to the client's needs specifically. To end users, the success of touch screens in the high-end home theater market has been a double edged sword. On the one hand, a touch screen offers understandable controls, powerful automation and a delightful aesthetic alternative to the clutter of conventional remote controls on the coffee table. On the other hand, touch screen users have traditionally suffered from ergonomic challenges that conventional remote controls do not. The most important is the use of advanced technology and materials to make the touch screen as light in weight as possible. Through the use of lithium ion battery technology and other innovations, the weight of the touch screen has been reduced to less than 11 ounces.

 

Long Macros via Reliable, Robust RF/IR Repeating Add-On

Traditional touch screens generate their automation via macros of IR commands. During a long macro, the user must hold the remote steady and pointed at the equipment to ensure that all commands are received by the components. The MX-3000 includes remarkable new RF technology that provides seamless communication between the remote and the components via RF. As a result, the end user no longer needs to point the remote during a long macro. Once the button is pressed, the MX-3000 transmits the macro to the MRF-250 RF/MRF-300 RF Base Station (sold separately), which repeats the commands flawlessly regardless of whether the remote is even in the customers hands.

 

The MX-3000 and MRF-250/MRF-300 RF Base Station consistently achieves a range of 75 to 100 feet without any interference, even in hostile RF environments with multiple satellite receivers, computers or PVR's (all these components generate significant interference to RF remote control). The combination of troubleshooting LED's and the easy repositioning of the base station and its antenna leads to easy, trouble free installation in the most active environments.

 

Eliminate Plasma TV Interference Without Expensive "Plasma-Proof" IR Sensors

Because the MX-3000 can issue both line-of-sight IR and omnidirectional RF, plasma television sets can be controlled directly via IR, while out of sight A/V components are controlled via RF without the need for any IR repeater installation. Whether equipment is behind closed doors, inside cabinets, in other rooms of the house or even outdoors, the MX-3000 will send the necessary commands without pointing the remote controller at any A/V components.

 

Utilize Identical TV's or Other Components Without External "Black Box Routers"

A single MRF-250 RF/MRF-300 RF Base Station can route the IR commands of up to six identical components. In houses with identical TVs or Satellite receivers spread around the house, you can install additional MRF-250 RF/MRF-300 RF Base Stations. Each MRF-250/MRF-300 RF is assigned one of 15 unique ID Numbers allowing up to 15 equipment locations in a single installation. Each MRF-250/MRF-300 RF Base Station can be controlled from any MX-3000. A system can be comprised of any number of MX-3000's, MRF- 250's/MRF-300's . If desired, each MRF-250/MRF-300 RF Base Station can have a dedicated MX-3000 programmed only for the components in that room. For instance, a single MX-3000 may be used to control three different locations, or each location can have its own MX-3000.

 

Software Designed for the Professional Installer

Home Theater Master created new standards with the introduction of the MX-700 and MX-800 Editor programs for the combination LCD/Hard Button IR/RF remote controls. For the first time, the custom installation professional has software designed to speed programming and installation. Around the world, the MX series of hybrid LCD remotes has found huge success because of the professional orientation of the software. Touch Screens introduce many complications for the professional installer. Yes, now you can label any button with any length label, but now you have the added chore of selecting, arranging and aligning all of the graphical buttons of the user interface. In some installations, the artistic part of the programming can take days with other touchscreen programming packages.

 

The MX-3000 Editor enhances the reputation earned by the MX-700 and MX-800 software. In every operation, the design team found ways to speed the process of programming a touch screen for a professional installation. Rather than forcing installers to create their own graphics and buttons, Home Theater Master GUI designer, Dale Crawford (renowned for his EasyTheater template for touch screens) unleashed a torrent of creativity, producing hundreds of icons and new button designs, organized into templates and themes that can be instantly swapped into place by the installer.

 

MX-3000 Editor allows you to create your own designs as well, but with an added twist. You can save your designs as templates or themes and reuse them over and over again, without the labor of programming each button individually. The end result is a totally customizable production environment for professional installers.

 

Powerful Macros With Sounds, Text Changes, Multiple Page Jumps, Variables, Press Times, Delays, IR Commands

The MX-3000 supports unprecedented macro flexibility and power. Utilizing a spreadsheet style of action list, the installer can program macros with much more flexibility than any past touch screen program. Each row in the spreadsheet represents a macro step, but the installer can now program several functions to occur at the same time. Thus a command can be issued, a sound played, a message displayed on the button and a variable can be set all at once.

 

Use Variables For Personalization of Macros

Macros can set up to 255 custom variables. By creating variables for each of your users, you can program macros that perform different steps for different users. Advanced programmers may utilize variables for their own purposes, creating dynamic interfaces for clients that shift with activity or purpose.

 

FEATURES AND BENEFITS:

• Easy Operation

• Animated in 65,535 Colors

• Quick and Easy Understanding of Uploaded Configurations

• Automatic Backlighting

• Import CCF and other Tools For Professional Installers

• Unprecedented Control of Text, Graphics and Animation

• PC Programmable

• IR Code Editing 

• IR/RF

• Color touchscreen

• Built-In templates

• Replaces up to 255 remote controls

• More!

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