Universal Electronics Nevo User manual

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Nevo™ User Manual
Table of Contents
About Nevo...........................................................................................2
Understanding infrared technology ........................................................... 3
The home page explained .......................................................................4
Quick reference to icons and buttons ........................................................5
Setting up a device ................................................................................8
Setting up a room................................................................................ 10
Setting up a favorite ............................................................................ 12
Creating an activity.............................................................................. 14
Accommodating preferences.................................................................. 16
Downloading device codes and key functions ........................................... 17
Making changes .................................................................................. 20
Deleting devices, activities and rooms .................................................... 25
Key icons defined ................................................................................ 26
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About Nevo
Congratulations, your PDA now includes Nevo, the new evolution in homecontrol from
Universal Electronics, the leader in wireless control technology. Nevo transforms your
PDA into a sophisticated and easy-to-use wireless home control andautomation device.
With Nevo, accessing every infrared (IR) controlled device in the home or office has
never been easier or faster. Control more than 20 device types, such as televisions,
VCRs, DVDs, audio, lights, fans, and other home automation devices.
Overview of Nevo’s Features
Besides controlling your devices, Nevo also allows you to:
• Set up your favorite channel for easy, one-touch access.
• Organize devices by the rooms in which they are located.
• Share Nevo with other family or team members (called users) and allow
them to maintain their own unique settings for devices and activities.
• Create one-touch access (macro) to switch between activities that involve
interacting with more than one device. For example, you could assign the
name “Watch DVD” to a series of commands that dims the lights in your
family room, turn on the DVD player and press Play.
• Configure the look and feel of Nevo to reflect your personal perferences.
Understanding infrared technology
The home page explained
Quick reference to icons and buttons
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Understanding infrared technology
Infrared (IR) technology allows devices to communicate without wires. Using the beam of
infrared light from an electronic display, such as your PDA, Nevo can connect with any
office, entertainment or home automation equipment that supports infrared
technology, giving you the freedom to wirelessly access and control your devices.
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The home page explained
The device wheel in the middle of the home page shows all the available devices.
The Power button ( ) turns on the device at the top of the wheel.
Above the device wheel are icons for the page types: home ( ), control screen(s) ( ),
and favorites ( ).
Below the device wheel are icons for the configuration menus: customize ( ), user ( ),
rooms ( ), and KeyGuide ( ).
If you press the KeyGuide icon ( ), a menu shows the type of directional control provided by
the hard keys, which are navigation, controls or transport.
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Quick reference to icons and buttons
Page type icons
Device wheel icons
Configuration icons
Key icons defined
Program hardware buttons
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Page type icons
These icons are located at the top of the home page.
Home icon. This icon returns you to the home page.
Control screen(s) icon. This icon displays the keys available for the device shown at the
top of the wheel on the home page. Tap the arrows ( ) to see all of the pages of keys for
this device.
Favorites icon. This icon displays your favorite channel settings (television) and other
favorite activities that you set up.
You can press the cycle button ( ) on your hard keys to change page types and the page
button ( ) to change pages within the control screens.
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Device wheel icons
The device wheel fills the center of the Nevo home page.
Power icon. This icon turns the power on or off for the device at the top of the wheel.
Two icons on the wheel let you add devices and activities.
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Add devices icon. This icon starts the device setup wizard, which allows you to tell Nevo
which device you want to control.
Add activities icon. This icon starts the activities wizard, which allows you to set up a one
touch macro to issue commands to multiple devices when switching activities like watching
DVD.
The rest of the icons on the device wheel represent specific devices you have set up for the
room shown at the bottom of the home page.
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Configuration icons
These icons are located at the bottom of the home page.
Customize icon. This icon displays the customize menu. What you can customize
depends on the page type: home, control screen(s) or favorite(s). When shown on a network
logo in the favorites area, this icon indicates that a favorite selection can be configured.
User icon. This icon displays the user menu. By setting up a new user profile for each
family or team member, each user can specify their own favorites.
Rooms icon. This icon displays the rooms menu through which you can select the room
containing the device(s) you want to use. From this menu you can add or delete devices based
on the room in your house or office building.
KeyGuide icon. This icon lets you change the functions available when pressing hard
keys. See below for more information on the Navigation/Action button.
Tapping this icon is the same as pressing the keys button on your hard keys.
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Program hardware buttons
These are the physical buttons on your handheld device. A pop-up display (called the
KeyGuide) appears when you press the keys button. The KeyGuide identifies what each of the
hard keys does.
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Cycle button ( on the KeyGuide). This button changes page types and cycles
between home ( ), control screen(s) ( ) and favorite(s).
Page button ( on the KeyGuide). This button changes control screen pages.
Another way to change pages is to tap one of the arrow icons at the bottom of the control
screen.
Keys button ( on the KeyGuide). This button changes the KeyGuide type, which
defines what happens when you use the hard keys. There are three KeyGuide directional
control settings:
= Navigation (directional control)
= Controls (channel up/down, volume up/down, mute)
= Transport (rewind, fast forward, play, stop, pause)
The icon changes depending on the currently selected directional control setting.
Mute button ( on the KeyGuide). This button turns sound on and off.
Navigation/Action button. This button's functionality depends on the
directional control setting you selected.
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Setting up a device
Before you can use Nevo to control a device, you must add the device to the device wheel.
Each device has a control code that identifies its characteristics. Nevo provides device control
codes for thousands of brands of devices. You can download more device control codes from
MyNevo.com.
The first time you run Nevo, you'll see only two icons in the device wheel:
• The add devices icon
• The add activities icon
Tap the add devices icon ( ) or tap > Add Device... to start the Device Wizard.
Using Nevo's wizards
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Using Nevo's wizards
The wizard always displays the on-screen keyboard even though you don't need it for all
pages.
As you use the wizard:
To exit immediately from any page, tap Cancel.
To go back a page, tap Back.
When you've completed a page, tap Next.
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Select the device type
Tap the arrow to open the types list and select the device type, for example, Television.
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Select the setup method
This page lets you choose one of four ways to identify your device to Nevo:
• By Brand: Use this method if you know the brand of your device.
• By Device ID: Use this method if you know the specific device ID.
• By stepping through device IDs: Use this method if you don't know the
brand.
• By updating brands from the Web site: Use this method to locate
additional manufacturers and models downloaded from MyNevo.com.
To choose the default method, By Brand, tap Next.
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Select the code and test
Here you identify your specific device and test to see if the code you've chosen works. The
exact procedure depends on the setup method. The example above shows the code and test
page you would see if you chose "By Brand" as your setup method.
1. Follow the instructions on the screen to assign the code.
If you selected By Brand, Device ID is set to 1 initially.
2. Tap to test whether you can switch the device on or off. If not, change
the "Selection" code and repeat the test.
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Assign a name (label) to the device
Nevo displays a default name for the device.
To change the device name, tap and drag to select the characters you want to delete. Use the
on-screen keyboard to add characters.
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Choose an icon (image) for the device
A preset icon for each device is built into Nevo. This page allows you to change this icon to
one of the other standard icons or to an icon you downloaded from the Internet.
Use the drop-down list to scroll through the device icons and pick the one you want to use.
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