Living Control Limited Multi-room System User manual

L i v i n g C o n t r o l M u l t i - r o o m S y s t e m U s e r G u i d e
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Living Control
Multi-Room System
User Guide

Preface
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Safety warnings
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Living Control Ltd
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correct as of the date of publication. However, our
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Living Control Limited.
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About this guide
This guide is divided into five chapters, each of
which explains the different aspects of using your
Living Control Multi-room System.
Introduction explains how to use the system to
give you music at your fingertips throughout your
home.
Controlling your music explains the operation of
the Multi-room System using any of the three types
of control pad. If you are not interested in the more
advanced features this is the only chapter you need
to read.
Advanced features explains how to use the more
advanced features available on some installations,
including sleep timers, alarms, and events.
Editing titles explains how to use the Configuration
and Titles software to change the list of album titles
or preset names available on your system. You will
normally only need to do this if you have a multidisc
CD player or MusicBox in your system, and you
want to change the selection of CDs available from
that originally set up for you by your dealer.
Finally Troubleshooting provides helpful answers
to some typical problems that you may encounter
when using your Multi-room System.

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Contents
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Introduction 1
Music throughout your home 2
Controlling your music 2
What you can do 3
Controlling your music 5
Using the control pads 6
Playing music 7
Changing the volume 9
Changing a track 10
Taking music with you to another room 10
Switching the music off 11
Controlling the Multi-room System from shared rooms 12
Advanced features 15
Using the sleep timer to turn music off after a delay 16
Setting an alarm to play music at a specified time 16
Using events to control external devices 20
Viewing alarms and events 21
Suspending alarms or events 23
Editing titles 25
Introduction 26
Running the configuration program 26
Defining titles 26
Sending the titles back to the system 28
Troubleshooting 29
Index 31

Contents
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Introduction
Welcome to the Living Control Multi-
room System. This guide explains how
to use the system to give you music at
your fingertips throughout your home.

Introduction
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Music throughout your home
This section explains how the Living Control Multi-
room System works and some of the key concepts
to help you understand how it operates.
Rooms
The Living Control Multi-room System distributes
music to several different rooms, sometimes
referred to as zones. Each room can play music
through a pair of wall-mounting or floor standing
loudspeakers, or it can include a complete AV or hi-
fi system.
Sources
Your Living Control Multi-room System distributes
music from one or more sources, such as a CD
player or multidisc CD player, tuner, satellite
receiver, DVD player, or tape recorder. You can
freely select between the sources from any room,
and you can control the source from that room. For
example you can listen to a CD in the living room
while another member of your family listens to the
radio in the kitchen.
Album or station names
If your Multi-room System includes a multidisc CD
player, or the Living Control MusicBox hard disk
player, you will be able to choose between several
hundred CD titles by name from any room. In the
same way, with appropriate radio tuners, you can
select stations or presets by name in each room.
MusicBox3
The Living Control MusicBox3 provides playback of
up to 2650 hours of compressed music from a
built-in hard disk drive. Depending on your multi-
room controller you can listen to up to three
different tracks simultaneously in different rooms,
and control them independently.
Controlling your music
As well as selecting the source you want to listen to,
and selecting a CD, album, or radio preset by
name, you can also change the volume, mute the
sound, skip between tracks, and switch on or off
the system, all through a convenient wall-mounted
control pad in each room. The Living Control Multi-
room System provides a choice of three alternative
control pads, and your particular Multi-room System
may use one type of pad throughout, or you may
have chosen different control pads in different
rooms depending on the facilities you want in each
room.
VideoPad
The most flexible control pad, the VideoPad
provides a back-lit touch-sensitive display with clear
symbols for each function, and a full display of
album titles or preset names.

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DisplayPad/DisplayPad-S/DisplayPad-SL
The more compact DisplayPad is the same size as
a standard light switch, and gives access to all the
Multi-room System’s features using just three
buttons in conjunction with a clear two-line display.
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What you can do
The immediate benefit you will notice with your
Living Control Multi-room System is the ability to
choose exactly what you want to listen to, wherever
you are in your home, without needing to have a hi-
fi system and collection of CDs in every room.
The Living Control Multi-room System also provides
several more advanced features, including a sleep
timer, alarms, and events.
Note: These are only available on the EVENT! or
RoomBox6.
Taking the music with you
As well as choosing what you want to listen to in
each room, you can also play the same music in
every room, which is ideal for parties or when you
are listening to an important broadcast that you
don’t want to miss.
You can also take music with you as you move from
room to room, so if, for example you are in the
middle of listening to an album in the living room,
you can go up to the bedroom and carry on
listening. And when you decide to go to bed you
can switch the music off in every room from a single
control pad.
Sleep timer
Alternatively, a built-in sleep timer automatically
turns off the music you are listening to after a
specified delay, gradually reducing it in volume
before turning it off.
Alarms
A built-in alarms facility lets you set up to four
alarms in each room. These allow you to start music
of your choice playing at a specified time, on
specified days, and with control over the volume.
For example, during the week you can be woken up
at 7am by the news, but at the weekend you can
wake to chamber music playing quietly at 9am.
Events
Finally the Living Control Multi-room System will
work in conjunction with electric curtains and
lighting, and allow you to define events which
automatically open or close the curtains, and turn on
or off the lights at specified times.

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Controlling your
music
This chapter explains how to control
the Multi-room System from a control
pad with step by step instructions for
each of the basic operations.

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Using the control pads
The key to controlling any of Living Control’s multi-
room products is using the elegant wall mounted
control pads. Each room can have up to three
control pads.
DisplayPad
The DisplayPad is the same size as a light switch
and enables you to control all of your hi-fi
components, in each room of your home, from just
three buttons.
The DisplayPad includes a two-line display to show
what function you are selecting, and to display
album titles or preset names.
When operating the Multi-room System the lower
line of the display usually shows the function of the
three buttons. For example:
Room Off
Y !# N
This shows that the left and right buttons are used
to select yes and no respectively, and the centre
button returns to playing music.
VideoPad
The VideoPad, which is the same size as a double
light switch, uses a touch screen to provide totally
intuitive control of your Multi-room System using
pictorial icons:
Canceling your selection: If at any time while
you are using the DisplayPad or VideoPad you
change your mind, and want to abandon your
selection, simply leave the pad for six seconds
after which it will revert to whatever it was
previously

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Playing music
To play music you simply select the source that you
want to listen to. In addition, if the source provides
more than one album, such as with a multidisc CD
player, or more than one preset station, such as
with an FM tuner, you also need to select the title
you want to listen to.
To select a source
DisplayPad
• Press the centre button.
The display shows the first source:
CD
$ OK %
• Press the left
<and right >buttons to step
between sources.
• Press the centre OK button when the source you
want is displayed.
If the source has only one title, such as the CD
player, it will start playing and the display will show
Playing followed by the source name:
Playing
CD
If the source has multiple titles, such as a multidisc
CD player, the Living Control MusicBox, or an FM
tuner, you also need to select the title you want to
listen to as described in the next section.
VideoPad
• Touch the O
ON
icon:
The source selection screen will be displayed:
• Touch the source you want to listen to.
If the source has only one title, such as the CD
player, it will start playing and the display will show
Playing followed by the source name:
If the source has multiple titles, such as a multidisc
CD player, the Living Control MusicBox, or an FM
tuner, you also need to select the title you want to
listen to as described in the next section.

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To select a title
DisplayPad
The display shows the first available title in
alphabetical order:
Beatles?
Revolver
• Press the left or right buttons to step between
titles.
• Press the centre button when the title you want is
displayed.
The title you have selected will start playing from the
beginning.
VideoPad
The display shows the first title in alphabetical
order:
• Touch the Previous or Next icon to step
through the titles:
• Touch the OK icon when the title you want is
displayed:
The title you have selected will start playing from the
beginning.
To search through the titles
If the source you want to listen to contains a large
number of titles, such as a 300 multidisc CD player,
you can quickly scan through the titles to find the
one you want.
DisplayPad
• On the title display press the left or right button
to step between the titles.
If you hold down the right button the display will
start stepping through the alphabet:
E...
• Release the button when you have reached the
first letter of the alphabet for the title you want.
VideoPad
• Touch the Search icon on the Select a title
display:

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The search screen is displayed:
• Touch the first letter of the title you want to
select.
The Select a title screen will then jump to the first
title starting with that letter:
Changing the volume
You can independently control the volume in each
room, even if you are listening to the same source in
two different rooms. When you first switch on a
room the volume is set to level 10. Subsequently,
when you switch on the room, the volume is
restored to the last volume you used in that room.
To adjust the volume
While the source or title screen is displayed:
DisplayPad
• Press the right + button to increase the volume.
• Press the left - button to decrease the volume.
As you adjust the volume the display shows the
current volume:
Volume #
- 06 +
VideoPad
• Touch the Volume+ icon to increase the volume:
• Touch the Volume- icon to decrease the
volume:

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As you adjust the volume the display shows the
current volume:
You can also mute the sound by touching the Mute
icon on the source or title screen:
Changing a track
If the source that you are listening to has a
Next/Previous track function, such as a CD player,
or Preset Up/Don as on a tuner, you can use the
control pads to step between tracks or preset
stations.
To step between the tracks
DisplayPad
From the album title display:
• Press the centre button once.
The Track display is shown:
Track
<< !# >>
• Press the left
<or right >button to step
between tracks in the current album.
VideoPad
From the album title display:
• Touch the Previous or Next icons to step
between tracks in the current album:
Taking music with you to another room
If you are listening to music in one room, and you
want to move to another room and continue
listening to the same music, you simply select the
same source to pick up the same music you were
listening to.
To take music with you
DisplayPad
• Press the centre button to display the first
source.
• Press the left
<and right >buttons to step
through the sources.
When the source you were listening to is displayed,
the centre button icon will change to a loudspeaker
symbol to show that the source is already playing:
CD
$ !# %
• Press the centre button to select the source.

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VideoPad
• Touch the On icon to display the source screen:
Sources, which are already playing in another room,
are indicated by a black rectangle.
• Touch the source to select it.
Switching the music off
You can switch off the music in one room, or you
can switch off the music in all rooms from one
room.
To switch a room off
DisplayPad
• Press the centre button twice to display the
Room Off screen:
Room Off
Y !# N
• Press the left Ybutton to switch off the room.
The DisplayPad displays Room off, and optionally
shows the current time:
Room off
11:47
VideoPad
• Touch the room off icon on the display screen:
The VideoPad displays:
To switch off all rooms
DisplayPad
• Press the centre button twice to display the
Room Off screen.
• Hold down the left Ybutton for about three
seconds.
The display will briefly change to All Off and all
rooms will be switched off. After a few seconds the
display will revert to the Room off display.

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VideoPad
• Touch the room off icon on the display screen.
The VideoPad displays:
• Touch the All Off icon:
The display will show All rooms Off and all rooms
will be switched off:
Controlling the Multi-room System from
shared rooms
Your installer may have set up some of the rooms in
your multi-room installation as shared rooms, in
which both rooms will always play the same source.
You can independently turn off the loudspeakers in
each of the shared rooms.
A typical application would be a bedroom and en
suite bathroom, where you would not want to listen
to different sources in the two rooms.
To turn off the loudspeakers in a shared room
DisplayPad
• Press the left and centre buttons together to turn
the speaker off.
The display shows:
Speaker
Off
• Press any button to turn the speakers back on.
The Display shows:
Speaker
On

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VideoPad
• Touch the Mute icon to turn the speaker off.
• Touch the Mute icon again to turn the speaker
on.