Universal Remote MX-5000 User manual

The Pioneer in Control Technology
MX-5000
Network Wand
WiFi Color Touch Screen with Hapc Feedback

The MX-5000 is the master of IP (Internet Protocol)
over your home network. Via a comprehensive 2-way
database of the most popular IP controlled Audio Video
Receivers from B&K, Denon, Integra and Yamaha, your
MX-5000 can display the current status and browse the
media opons of networked Audio Video receiver.
In operaon, it’s incredible. Now, you can see the actual
volume seng no maer what you are listening to or
whether the TV is on or o. No more peering into the
equipment rack just to “make sure” the volume isn’t set
too high!
Whenever you touch the Volume Up, Down or Mute
buons on the MX-5000, a pop up display, connected real
me with your AVR, displays the current volume as you
adjust it. Once you’ve stopped adjusng volume, the pop-
up display conveniently disappears!
2-Way via Networked Audio Video Receivers
MX-5000 - Two Way Wand!
Form Follows Funcon...
Hapc (Touch) Feedback
The MX-5000 revoluonizes touch
screen operaon for all me! It’s the
rst remote control ulizing hapc
technology, which conrms buon
presses with a click you feel.
Personal Browsing
The MX-5000 is a 2-way wand-style touch screen
color remote that provides network control
of many popular IP-based components. In
addion to its stunning design it oers a fully
customizable GUI on a large color screen
that sends vibrang “hapc” feedback
conrming each buon selecon.

The MRX-1 is a true bridge between the network and
IR, RS-232 and relay-controlled devices. In addion, it
provides 2-way status and feedback via RS-232 and a
voltage/video sensor to network keypads and remotes.
The MRX-1 serves as a “converter” to RS-232 controlled
devices, enabling your MX-5000 to communicate over
the network to an equipment rack located anywhere in
your house. Since the conversion is both ways, your RS-
232 device can be both controlled and can update your
MX-5000 with the current status, and display volume pop
ups, tuner interfaces and lists of AVR radio presets etc. all
on the screen of the MX-5000.
In addion, the MRX-1 provides the MX-5000 with control
over relay and IR controlled devices.
2-Way RS-232 via MRX-1 Network Base Station
Engineered
to delight both the
eye and the hand
The MX-5000’s bright, vivid color
touch screen is mounted in a remote
control where every surface, every
contour, and every buon has been designed
to feel “right.” Since WiFi 2-way delivers so
much more fun, you’ll need twice the baery
life of other products and the MX-5000 delivers it
invisibly, without excess weight or bulk. The weight
is perfectly posioned to balance in your hand.
Contours are shaped and molded into the back so
that your hand can nd the perfect posion. The enre
rear is covered with a so texture that feels perfect
against your palm.
Each MRX-1 controls two 2-Way RS-232 Devices, one relay and up to six IR devices.

Experience the Networked Home Theater, all in one hand!
Browse cover art, arst, album and tles from
your iPod via the PSX-2 or a PC on your network
The revoluonary wand MX-5000 brings the power of WiFi
networking to the home theater, without compromising
simplicity. The high speed of the built-in 802.11 B/G WiFi
transceiver enables the MX-5000 to display lists of arsts,
albums or songs and to display the cover art of the selected
album on the Now Playing screen of the remote control from
the PSX-2 Personal Server.
The MX-5000 oers two independent communicaons and
control methods simultaneously. It provides both a narrow band
418 MHz transmier for instant control of convenonal home
theater components and a WiFi transceiver for high speed
transfer of cover art, arst, album and tle metadata.
The high speed of the built-in 802.11 B/G WiFi
transceiver enables the MX-5000 to display lists of
arsts, albums or songs and to display the cover art of
the selected album on the Now Playing screen of the
remote control.
Internet Connecon Provides Real Time News, Sports, Weather and Stocks
When the MX-5000 is connected to the Internet, pre-programmed modules enable instant access to
personalized news, sports, weather and stocks.
Unlike other devices, the MX-5000’s news, sports, weather and stocks modules are user-congurable
without a programmer or a PC. On a whim, you can check out the opposing team’s scores, or get the
weather forecast for a vacaon desnaon.
News Weather Sports Stocks

Experience the Networked Home Theater, all in one hand!
Real Time Volume Display on the MX-5000 Screen
Whenever you adjust the volume or press the Mute buon, the
MX-5000 pops up a dynamic link to your IP controlled Audio Video
receiver (the URC 2-Way database includes popular IP controlled
products from Denon, Yamaha, Integra and B&K) and displays a bar
graph on the screen of the MX-5000. If you need to adjust the sound
before the movie starts, you can check the actual seng in real me,
by simply touching one of the Volume buons.
2-Way Display and Control of AM,
FM, XM, and Sirius Radio
Browse the radio staons available to your
IP controlled home theater receiver on the
screen of the MX-5000 (the URC 2-Way
database includes popular IP controlled Audio
Video Recievers from Denon, Yamaha, Integra
and B & K).
Nave URC Lighng Control —
Touch the Screen to Set a New
Scene!
At last, you can fully control the lighng
in your home without expensive black
boxes and exoc wiring. A lighng
system can be as simple as a single URC
RF lamp dimmer on a lamp that you’d
love to control without geng out of
your chair.
The MX-5000 directly controls lights connected to URC RF Dimmers
and Switches. You can brighten, dim, and recall scenes, and you can
store new scenes whenever you like, without a PC or a programmer.
Simply manually adjust each dimmer to the new seng, then press
and hold the scene buon on your MX-5000 (just like storing radio
staons in your car).

PSX-2: Personal Audio Video
Server for the MX-5000
Advanced Personal A/V Server: PSX-2
CE Pro editor Julie Jacobson called it “the best product of CES 2009.”
The PSX-2 turns any iPod into an advanced A/V server with onscreen
GUI. It provides 2-way on-TV content browsing and selecon with
cover art plus hundreds of discrete IR commands that enable “one
touch to music” programming. It also oers on-remote GUI when
installed with URC’s award winning MX-6000, MX-5000 or KP-4000
keypad.
Shortcuts to Any Content Instantly Without Menus
The “Shortcuts” buon makes navigang from videos to musical genres a
simple process. Example: Touch the “Arsts” buon on the shortcuts screen
to jump directly to the Arsts menu.
Unlike other iPod docks or tradional music servers, you are not forced to
constantly navigate up, down, le and right through a maze of menus to
access new audio video content.
Explore Your Content:
Shue Exactly What You Feel Like Listening To
With other music servers, shue is a frustrang mix of too many kinds of
music. With the PSX-2, shue becomes a powerful tool for listening and
exploring your music collecon. Imagine shuing just your jazz, or just the
songs of a parcular arst. You can shue play any genre, any arst or any
album at any me by simply accessing the MX-5000’s shue screen.
Play More From
Imagine exploring all the hard rock albums of your youth with Shue Genres.
When you hear a song you love, instead of having to browse through the
hundreds of arsts in your collecon, you simply touch the ”Play More From”
buon. By then selecng the “More from this Arst” buon, all the songs
from the current Arst will be played in sequenal order.
Powered by

The MX-5000 can control all the PCs connected
to your system as long as each is accessible via
your home local area network.
PC Server for MX-5000
Powered by
Converts any PC with iTunes or Windows Media
Player into a Powerful Music Server with an
Intuive, Friendly User Interface
Instead of purchasing an expensive “Media PC” or dedicated
music server, any PC with iTunes and/or Windows Media Player
can be connected to your audio system to act as a high powered
music server with the most engaging, intuive user interface
you’ve ever seen.
Up to now, the complexity of having to deal with a keyboard and
a mouse in your listening room has made this an uncomfortable
choice.
You know the frustrang feeling—some of your music was
downloaded via iTunes and some of your music via Windows
Media Player, you’ve had to keep separate libraries. Finding the
music you paid for was dicult.
MX-5000 Server is a soware applicaon that, once installed
on a PC, combines your iTunes library with your Media Player
library. The MX-5000 ulizes its network connecon via WiFi
to communicate with the server soware on the PC. Since all
communicaon happens at WiFi “G” speeds, there are no lags or
delays displaying the informaon or lists on the screen of the MX-
5000.
All your cover art, arst, album and song tle metadata appear on
the screen of the MX-5000. Lists are navigated via the integrated
Up and Down buons on the remote without ever connecng a
keyboard or mouse to the PC.
You build a “queue” of whatever music in on your PC and shue
or sequenally play it, just as you like. At last, you have access to
all the music you’ve paid for... all the music you want without the
hassles... the music simply plays...

Narrow Band ensures that broadband RFI (Radio
Frequency Interference) will be ignored. However,
RFI can also be site specic and
centered on a parcular band. For
this reason, the MX-5000 can be
specied in either the standard
418MHz version or the MX-5000i
433MHz Narrow Band version.
Ensure reliability with
the Narrow
Band RFX-250 or RFX-
250i (433MHz).
The RFX-250 is
included with both
the MRF-350 Roung
Base Staon and the MSC-400 Master System Controller
(specify “i” series for 433 MHz versions).
Narrow Band RF in either 418MHz or 433MHz
Narrow Band RF Transmission
RFX-250 for MX-5000
RFX-250i for MX-5000i
No Rules, Instant Control of
Standard AV Components
Unlike other WiFi remote controls, the MX-5000 uses a second RF
(Radio Frequency) transmier to control convenonal gear instantly,
without the frustrang delay of waing for the remote control to
“join the network” when you simply want to turn the system on.
This provides you with instant “no rules control” of AV receivers, at
screen TVs, projectors, cable and satellite receivers, DVD players and
changers.

The MX-5000 is compable with the ultra-reliable MSC-
400 “Trigger” protocol, which enables complex macros,
stored in the MSC-400, to be individually triggered with
a single buon push on the MX-5000 regardless of the
interference and noise in the environment.
The combinaon of very narrow transmission of digitally
encoded packets sent THREE mes at digital speeds in
milliseconds assures that every buon press on the
remote will be received by the MSC-400. The MSC-400’s
sophiscated error correcon circuitry stores all three
packets and compares them. Once two packets are
idened as idencal, the MSC-400 goes to work.
This new technology not only increases range, but
increases reliability by a vast margin.
MSC-400 Compatibility
MX-5000 is compable with the MSC-400 Master System Controller
Automac Backlighng
The integral moon sensor detects any movement of the touch screen and automacally backlights
the screen. The user does not have to press any buon to display the screen. Any movement of the
MX-5000 renews the backlighng. Without movement, the touch screen stays lit for 1 to 99 seconds
(programmed by the installer).
Not Just Color, Animated Color!
Powered by a 533MHz ARM9 microprocessor, the MX-5000 is designed for animaon. The powerful
central processor enables quick, uid page transions and animated macros.
Learn more. Visit URC at www.universalremote.com or explore URC’s rich learning
opportunies at www.urccontrolroom.com/LP_training/
Double Capacity Lithium Ion Baeries and
Charging Base
The demands of WiFi and high speed transfers coupled with a
large color touch screen raise the demand for power to a new
high. The MX-5000 is equipped with a unique double capacity
Lithium Ion baery, providing over 4 hours of connuous use
before recharging is necessary. Should the MX-5000 be le
on a table, it will remain in standby mode for 9 days without
requiring a recharge.
The aracve charging base oers an ideal angle to use while
charging, so may be placed on or near your chair. In addion,
the MX-5000 oers a power input at the base of the remote,
so that it can be hand held while charging directly from the
power adapter.

MX-5000
Network Wand
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The Pioneer in Control Technology
Specicaons
Microprocessor: 533MHz ARM9
RAM: 128Mbyte Mobile DDR
NAND: 64Mbyte
LCD: 2.8 Inch Screen (240 by 360)
LCD Backlighng: By LED
Sound: 2 x 1 wa
Devices: Supports up to 255 Devices with text, less with heavy graphics usage
Pages: Supports up to 255 Pages on each Device with text, less with heavy graphics usage
Learning Capability: Standard frequencies (20kHz to 455kHz)
Macro Capability: Up to 255 steps each, however nesng is allowed
IR Range (Line of Sight via Infrared): 30-50 feet, depending on the environment
RF Frequency: 418MHz (MX-5000i is 433MHz)
RF Range (Radio Frequency): 50 to 100 feet, depending upon the environment
WiFi: IEEE 802.11 B (11Mps), G (54Mps)
Baery: Lithium Ion, 2400 mA hours; charging base included
Baery Capacity: 4 hours connuous use, 9 days standby
Baery Charging Time: 7 Hours
Dimensions: 8.8 ”Height x 2.4” Wide x .9 ” Thick
Weight (without AC Adapter): 7.8 oz