Kenwood Axcess Axcess Remote Portal User manual

How to Use and Enjoy Your New
Kenwood Axcess Remote Portal
Congratulations on your purchase of the Kenwood Axcess. With Axcess,
you’ll open a door to the media stored on your Entré, allowing you to enjoy
music and Internet Radio anywhere you place the Portal. You’ll quickly find
the music or radio stations you’re looking for, since you can browse your
library on Axcess as you do using Entré.
Axcess is easy to set up, and easy to use. With this guide, you’ll familiarize
yourself with Axcess’ capabilities, and quickly enjoy its state-of-the-art
technology.
An electronic version of the complete guide to your Kenwood Axcess Remote
Portal (combining both your Setup Guide and this manual) is available online
at the Kenwood USA Web site (www.kenwoodusa.com). The Kenwood USA
Web site will also contain information on functional updates to both Axcess
and Entré as well as any updates to their manuals.
How Do I Reset Axcess?
If Axcess fails to respond to front panel or remote commands, or if it responds
erroneously, reset it:
1. Hold the POWER ON button down on the remote control until the
Standby, MUSIC, NET RADIO, AUX and OG lights flash momentarily.
Then release the POWER ON button.
2. When the Standby light stays lit, press the POWER ON button on the
remote or the POWER button on the front panel to turn Axcess on.
OpenGlobe, the OpenGlobe logo,
CE-Commerce and entertain
simplicity are trademarks of
OpenGlobe, Inc.
CDDB is a registered trademark of GraceNote.
All other trademarks are property of their registered owners.

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Table of Contents
How to Use and Enjoy Your New Kenwood Axcess
Remote Portal................................................................... ii
How Do I Reset Axcess?......................................................ii
Chapter 1: Getting to Know Your Axcess ......................... 1
What’s On the Front Panel of My Axcess? ...........................2
What’s On the Axcess Remote?...........................................3
How Do I Turn On Axcess?.................................................4
What if I Have More Than One Entré (Manual Media
Server Selection)?................................................................6
How Do I Switch Modes? ...................................................6
How Do I Navigate Axcess? ................................................7
How Do I Control Music Play? ............................................7
Chapter 2: Enjoying Your Music Collection ..................... 9
How Do I Browse and Play My Music Collection? ...............9
Playing Music................................................................................ 9
Browsing Groups, Channels and Tracks ......................................... 9
Controlling Music Play Order ...................................................... 11
Chapter 3: Enjoying Internet Radio................................ 13
How Do I Connect to Internet Radio? ...............................13
How Do I Browse and Listen to Internet Radio? ................13
Browsing Groups and Channels................................................... 14
How Do I Purchase the Music I Hear on Internet Radio?...15

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Chapter 4: Controlling Audio Settings ........................... 17
How Do I Adjust the Volume? ..........................................17
How Do I Adjust the Speaker Balance? .............................17
How Do I Adjust the Bass Setting?.....................................18
How Do I Adjust the Treble Setting? .................................18
Chapter 5: Troubleshooting ........................................... 21
How Do I Contact Kenwood? ...........................................22
How Do I Solve Sound Problems?.....................................22
There’s No Sound ....................................................................... 22
The Volume Suddenly Decreases ................................................ 22
Internet Radio Stops Playing........................................................ 22
I Can’t Hear Anything from My TV or Other Connected Device .. 23
How Do I Solve a Problem with Axcess? ...........................23
The display on Axcess reads “Server Not Found”......................... 23
Axcess Doesn’t Respond When I Press a Button on the Remote
or Front Panel ............................................................................. 24
My Music Repeats or Plays Out of Order..................................... 24
I Can’t Control Internet Radio ..................................................... 24
Axcess Doesn’t Work .................................................................. 24
How Do I Solve a Problem with the Remote?....................24
The Remote Is Not Responding ................................................... 24
How Do I Solve a Problem with Entré?..............................24
Index.............................................................................. 25

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Chapter 1: Getting to Know Your Axcess
Welcome to the Use and Enjoy Guide for your new Kenwood Axcess Remote
Portal. This chapter helps you learn how to take advantage of all Axcess’
features.
Axcess is a portal—a doorway to your stored media collection, providing a
convenient way to enjoy your MP3 and Internet Radio collections.
Enjoy the MP3s stored in your Entré music library through Axcess—without
downloading music to a new device or computer each time you change
locations.
Or, listen to Internet Radio stations. You’ll enjoy the spectacular array of
online stations, without putting a computer in every room.

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What’s On the Front Panel of My Axcess?
Radio Input
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1. Power/Standby button
2. Standby light
3. Infrared receiver (for use with
included IR remote)
4. Skip/Scan backward
5. Skip/Scan forward
6. Display
7. Music mode button
8. Internet Radio mode button
9. Auxiliary mode button
10. OpenGlobe Web services but-
ton
11. Headphone jack
12. Stop button
13. Pause button
14. Play button
15. Left navigation button
16. Up navigation button
17. Down navigation button
18. Select button
19. Right navigation/Track informa-
tion button
20. Volume down button
21. Volume up button

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What’s On the Axcess Remote?
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1. Music mode button
2. Internet Radio mode button
3. Auxiliary mode button
4. Stop button
5. Pause button
6. Skip/Scan backward
7. Skip/Scan forward
8. Audio settings button
9. Left navigation button
10. Down navigation button
11. Power On/Standby button
12. Power Off button
13. Play button
14. Volume up button
15. Volume down button
16. Mute button
17. OpenGlobe Web services but-
ton
18. Up navigation button
19. Select button
20. Right navigation/Track infor-
mation button

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How Do I Turn On Axcess?
Press the POWER button on front panel or POWER ON on the remote to turn
Axcess on. Axcess is always in one of four power states:
Axcess automatically configures itself, but if it fails to do so,
follow the manual procedure. Axcess will prompt you to
manually enter the network settings (IP address, gateway
address, network mask and DNS address). Get this
State: Meaning: Action:
Power Off: The
standby light is off
and no text
appears on Axcess’
display panel.
Axcess is
unplugged.
1. Plug Axcess in.
2. Press POWER ON on the
remote, or POWER on
Axcess’ front panel. Axcess
will go through an auto-
matic network configura-
tion, which may include
automatically downloading
updated software from
Entré.
Do not press
any buttons on
either Axcess’
front panel or
remote control
until the
configuration
process is
complete.
Initializing: The
Standby light turns
off after illuminat-
ing briefly.
Axcess is
initializing
(starting up).
Press POWER ON on the remote,
or POWER on Axcess’ front
panel.
Standby: The
Standby light is
solid red.
Axcess is plugged
in, but not in use.
Press POWER ON on the remote,
or POWER on Axcess’ front panel
to begin using Axcess.
Power On: The
display panel
shows text and the
Standby light is off.
Axcess is
powered and
running.
Press POWER OFF on the remote,
or POWER on Axcess’ front panel
to return the system to standby.

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information from your Internet Service Provider (ISP). If your
network uses a static IP address, you can also get the
information directly from your Entré. For more information,
see “Network Configuration” on page 7 of How to Connect
and Set Up Your Axcess Remote Portal.
Once Axcess enters the manual configuration mode, the IP address appears:
1. Use the left/right arrow buttons to select the number you want to enter
(the selected number will blink).
2. Use the up/down arrow buttons to change the number.
3. Repeat steps 1–2 until the correct IP address shows on the display.
4. Once you have entered the correct IP address, press the SELECT button.
Axcess will show the gateway address:
5. Use the left/right and up/down arrow buttons as before to enter the cor-
rect gateway address.
6. Press the SELECT button. The network mask appears. Use the left/right and
up/down arrow buttons as before to enter the correct network mask.
7. Press the SELECT button. The DNS address appears. Use the left/right and
up/down arrow buttons as before to enter the correct DNS address.
8. Press the SELECT button. “Done?” appears in the top line.
9. If you entered all the network information correctly, press the up or
down buttons until the bottom line reads “Yes” and press the SELECT but-
ton.
OR If you made a mistake entering any of the network information, press
the up or down buttons until the bottom line reads “No”, and press the
SELECT button. Axcess returns to the network configuration screens.
Repeat steps 1–9.

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What if I Have More Than One Entré (Manual Media
Server Selection)?
Axcess can connect “on the fly” to any Entré connected to your HomePNA
network. If you have more than one Entré on your network, you will need to
select which one Axcess should use. You can perform this step at any time to
setup or change which Entré Axcess uses.
Skip this step if you have only one Entré on your network.
1. Hold the SELECT button on Axcess’ front panel down for at least 4 sec-
onds. “Select Server” appears in the top line of the display, and the name
you entered for one of your Entrés appears in the bottom line.
2. Use the up/down arrow buttons so the display’s bottom line shows the
name of the Entré you want Axcess to use.
3. Press the SELECT button.
How Do I Switch Modes?
Once you’ve turned on Axcess, you can immediately enjoy music or Internet
Radio, or an auxiliary source (such as your TV), by selecting one of the mode
buttons. Axcess has the following modes:
Press this button: To:
MUSIC Enjoy the music stored on Entré’s high-capacity
music storage system.
NET RADIO Listen to Internet Radio stations.
AUX
Listen to a connected device through Axcess’ speak-
ers. To do so, you must connect the device to
Axcess. To learn how, see “How Do I Connect
Axcess to an Auxiliary Audio Source?” on page 4 of
How to Connect and Set Up Your Axcess Remote
Portal.
OPENGLOBE
Tag music you hear on Internet Radio. That way,
you can find it on OpenGlobe’s web site later and
purchase it. For more information about the Open-
Globe button, see “How Do I Purchase the Music I
Hear on Internet Radio?” on page 15.

How Do I Navigate Axcess?
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How Do I Navigate Axcess?
You can quickly browse available music titles or radio stations using Axcess’
navigation buttons.
How Do I Control Music Play?
Press the buttons on your remote or Axcess’ front panel to control music play.
These buttons work just like the play control buttons on Entré.
Press this button: To:
Move to the left.
Move up.
• Move to the right.
• View Track information.
Move down.
Select an item.
Press this button: To:
•Playmusic.
• (In Internet Radio mode) Re-acquire the
selected station if the station connection is lost.
Stop music.
Pause music.
(In Internet Radio mode) Not used.
• Skip to the previous Track.
• Press and hold to move backward through the
current Track.
• (In Internet Radio mode) Not used.

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• Skip to the next Track.
• Press and hold to fast forward through the cur-
rent Track.
• (In Internet Radio mode) Not used.
Press this button: To:

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Chapter 2: Enjoying Your Music
Collection
Using Axcess’ Music mode, you can play your music collection, find a Track
in your favorite Group on Entré, or control the order your music plays in. This
chapter helps you understand how to play music, and find exactly the song
you’re looking for.
How Do I Browse and Play My Music Collection?
You can play music as soon as you select the Music mode. Press MUSIC on
Axcess or the remote.
Playing Music
Once you’re in Music mode, press to play the piece of music currently
displayed on Axcess:
While a Track is playing, press the right navigation arrow to view its playing
time:
Browsing Groups, Channels and Tracks
When you added music to Entré, the hub automatically organized your music
for you, or you may have organized it yourself. When you use Axcess to play
that music remotely, it’s organized exactly how it is on Entré. Your music is
organized into:
• Groups: categories of music, such as Rock, Jazz, or All.
• Channels: an MP3 playlist.
• Tracks: an individual song or piece of music.

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For more information about using Entré to organize your music, see
“Chapter 4: Managing Your Music” in How to Use and Enjoy Your Entré
Entertainment Hub.
You can browse Groups, Channels and Tracks on Axcess much as you do with
Entré.
You can browse your collection both when music is playing
and when it’s stopped.
1. To browse the Groups on your Entré, press the left navigation button. The
current Group appears on the first line of the display, and the first Chan-
nel in that Group appears on the second line:
• Use the left and right navigation buttons to browse available Groups.
If your Entré contains more than one Group, arrows appear on one
or both sides of the currently selected Group:
• Use the up and down navigation buttons to browse Channels in a
particular Group:
2. Press SELECT to select a Channel. The Channel name moves to the top line
of the display, and the first Track in that Channel appears in the second
line of the display:

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3. Browse a selected Channel:
• Press the up and down navigation buttons to browse Tracks in a
Channel.
• Press the left or right navigation button to return to browsing Groups.
4. Press SELECT to play the currently displayed Track.
Hold down the up or down navigation buttons on the
remote to scroll10linesat a time (similar to thefunctionof
the PAGE buttons on the Entré remote).
Controlling Music Play Order
You can control the order in which Axcess plays your music collection by
changing preset music play orders. You can select from the following play
orders:
This play order: Does this:
Normal Plays the current Channel in sequential order once,
then stops.
This is the default setting. Whenever
you turn on Axcess from Standby
mode, play order will reset to this
default.
Shuffle Title Randomly plays all Tracks within the currently
selected Channel until you press . Axcess won’t
repeat any Track until it has played all of them.
Shuffle Group Randomly plays all Tracks within the currently
selected group until you press . Axcess won’t
repeat any Track until it has played all of them.
Use this mode to shuffle all of
Entré’s MP3s. Select the “All” group,
then shuffle the group.
Repeat Track Repeats the currently selected Track until you
press .
Repeat Title Repeats the Tracks in the currently selected Channel
in sequential order until you press .
Repeat Group Repeats the Channels in the currently selected group
in sequential order until you press .

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To select a play order:
1. Press MUSIC while you’re in Music mode. The current play order appears
on the first line of the display:
2. Press MUSIC again to move to the next available play order. Continue
pressing MUSIC until you find the play order you want.
3. Once you stop pressing MUSIC, Axcess saves the selected play order, and
returns to the regular screen after a few seconds.

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Chapter 3: Enjoying Internet Radio
Axcess allows you to enjoy Internet Radio the way you’ve listened to
traditional broadcast stations. With Axcess, you don’t have to turn on your
computer to listen to Internet Radio—now you can enjoy it anywhere in your
home that you have an Axcess Remote Portal.
This chapter explains how to use Axcess to listen to Internet Radio and find
the station you want.
Axcess allows you to listen to Internet Radio stations. Use
Entré to listen to FM/AM broadcast stations.
How Do I Connect to Internet Radio?
Axcess’ Internet Radio capabilities depend on Entré’s connection to the
Internet. The ability to listen to Internet Radio on Axcess depends on how you
connected Entré to the Internet.
For more information about how Entré’s Internet connection affects Internet
Radio on Axcess, see “How Do I Connect Axcess to Entré?” on page 2 of How
to Connect and Set Up Your Axcess Remote Portal. To learn more about
connecting Entré to the Internet, see “How Do I Connect My Entré to the
Internet?” on page 17 of How to Connect and Set Up Your Entré
Entertainment Hub.
How Do I Browse and Listen to Internet Radio?
To listen to Internet Radio, press the NET RADIO button on Axcess or the
remote.
Once you’re in Internet Radio mode, press or to play the current
Internet Radio station:
KFAE
INTERNET

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Browsing Groups and Channels
When you added Internet Radio stations to Entré, it automatically organized
the stations for you, or you may have customized it yourself. When you use
Axcess to listen to Internet Radio remotely, the stations are organized exactly
how they are on Entré. Your Internet Radio stations are organized into:
• Groups: categories of Internet Radio, such as News, Rock, or All.
• Channels: individual radio stations.
For more information about using Entré to organize your radio stations, see
“Chapter 6: Managing Your Radio Stations” in How to Use and Enjoy Your
Entré Entertainment Hub.
Browse Groups and Channels on Axcess much as you do with Entré.
You can browse available Internet Radio stations whether or
not a station is playing.
1. To browse Groups, press the left navigation button. The current Group
appears on the first line of the display, and the first Channel in that Group
appears on the second line:
• Once a Group name appears in the first line, use the left and right
navigation buttons to browse available Groups. If there’s more than
one Group, arrows appear on one or both sides of the currently
selected Group:
• Use the up and down navigation buttons to browse Channels in a
particular Group.
2. Press SELECT to select a Channel. The Internet Radio station begins
streaming.
OR press the left or right navigation button to continue browsing Groups.

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How Do I Purchase the Music I Hear on Internet
Radio?
If you hear a song you like while listening to Internet Radio, you can “tag” it
for purchase later on the OpenGlobe web site:
• While the song is playing, press . If information on the song is cur-
rently available, a screen similar to the following appears:
If the song information is not currently available, the following screen
appears:
A list of your “tagged” songs is kept on the OpenGlobe web site. You can
view the list by pressing on Entré. At the OpenGlobe web site, click on
“My Kenwood Axcess Wishlist.” For more information on purchasing
“tagged” songs, go to www.kenwoodusa.com.
Song
Information

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