Part 2: Testing The Channel Changer; Part 3: Give Your Channels A Name; File Browser Application - Archos PMA400 Mode D'emploi

Test – Power Toggle : When you click on this test button, the PMA400 will send a signal to the
TV Cradle, which will then send a signal out to the Infrared Emitter stuck to your device (TV,
VCR, Cable box) and turn your device on and off. Click this test button again and your device
should change from on to off or off to on. If pressing this button does not turn on and off your
device, choose the next code in the list, and try again. If none of the codes seem to work, check
that the infrared emitter is directly over the infrared sensor on your tuner device. Note: In some
rare cases the ON/OFF functionality may not work.
9.2

Part 2: Testing the channel changer

Test – Channel Input : When you press the Test: Channel Input button the PMA400 will send a
signal through the cradle to the Infrared Emitter stuck to your device and change the channel. If the
Number of digits parameter is set to three, it will try to select channel 123. If that parameter is set to
2, it will send the code for channel 12. If the test does not change the channel on your tuner, go back
to the IR Transmitter tab and try the next available code for your category and brand of product.
Parameter Description
Use -/-- Key: Set this to On if normally, you have to press this same key on your device's remote
control in order to select a channel.
Number of digits Set the number of digits that your device can recognize for a channel. Example:
Set to 3 if you need to choose a channel greater than channel 99.
Use Enter Key Set this to On if normally, you have to press the Enter key on your device's remote
control after you enter the channel number. Example: If you normally press 1, 3,
Enter for channel 13, then you would need to set this parameter to On.
Delay after each digit Change the delay between the emission of each digit of a channel. You may need
to adjust this if the PMA400 seems to send only half the digits of a channel or more
digits of a channel. Example: Adjust the key delay and retest channel select if it
sends channel 1 instead of 12 or sends 112 instead of 12.
9.3

Part 3: Give your channels a name

For the sake of recognition, it is helpful to give a name to each of your channels as shown here.
You only have to do this one time.
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Channel naming screen

10 File browser Application

The file browser application allows you to view your files on the PMA400 as well as
on a connected MSC device (see the section on the USB Master port for details). This
application has the standard file and folder controls such as; Rename a file or folder,
delete a file or folder, create a new folder, copy a file or folder, and move a file or
folder. All of these options are available in the pull down menu.
When you open the application you will see the folders within the top level directory /PMA400
also known at the root directory or root folder. Click on the Double Browser icon on the top right
of the menu bar or click the RIGHT button. This will open second window on the screen. With
these two windows open, you can choose your source and destination folders in order to copy or
move files from one place to another. Pay careful attention to which window has the current focus.
The window showing a highlighted file or folder name is always considered the source window,
and the other window is the destination window. Thus either the left or the right window can be
the source for the copy or move function.
In this example, if we choose the menu option
Move, we would move the file Anderson
Draft from the
/PMA400/Documents/text/plain to the folder
/PMA400/Video. The highlighted item is
always the object of the menu command.
Remember that the source window is the one
with the highlighted item, and the destination
window is the other one. You can close and
open the second window with the LEFT and
RIGHT buttons.
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folder