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Stagehand
Wireless Presentation Controller
plus Laser Pointer & Illumination Light
User’s Manual
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Contents Contents Need Help?...........................................................................................................................2 Safety Information...............................................................................................................3 Features...........................................................................................................................4 Installation.......................................................................
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Need Help? Need Help? If you have trouble using your Stagehand Wireless Presentation Controller, review the Installation, Operation, and Frequently Asked Questions sections of this User’s Manual. If you still have difficulties, instead of returning it to the dealer, check our website Atek.com for possible additional information, or contact us for friendly technical support. Telephone: 1-888-889-9990 (US and Canada only) or 714-258-0100 Monday thru Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. US Pacific Time Em
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Safety Information Safety Information ! WARNING! RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY! LASER POINTER The laser pointer in your Stagehand can cause permanent eye damage if not used properly. • Do not look into the laser beam or shine it in the eyes of other people or pets. • This product should only be used by adults. Keep it away from children! • Do not use the laser pointer for entertainment purposes. If you store this product in a place where there are children, such as in a school or at home, consi
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Features Features • S tagehand controls computer presentations by sending keyboard commands from the remote control to the Stagehand USB receiver via 2.4 GHz radio signals. Since these are radio signals rather than infrared signals, there is no need to maintain line-of-sight between the remote control and receiver. Note: Stagehand only indirectly controls a projector via the computer and does not control the mouse pointer on your computer screen. • Plug & play installation. No software ins
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Features • P ower, signal, and reprogramming LED indications on USB receiver provide useful feedback. Note: the USB receiver is not a flash memory drive and cannot be used to store presentations. • O n/off switch extends battery life and prevents battery drain caused by unintentional button pushing when carrying or storing the product. • C ontrol one computer with multiple remote controls or control multiple computers with one remote control (purchase of multiple sets required). • ID codes
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Installation Installation • Pull the battery protector film out from the battery compartment on the back of the remote control. • M ove the on/off button on the right side of the remote control to the “on” position by sliding it up. To confirm that it is on, push the small round button located right above the Atek logo to see if the white LED illumination light below the logo turns on. Stagehand User’s Manual, page 6
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Installation • After your laptop or desktop computer is powered on and fully booted up, plug the Stagehand USB receiver into the computer’s USB port. A solid color LED on the USB receiver indicates the receiver has power from the computer. The LED flashes when it receives keyboard command signals from the remote control, but do not push any buttons on the remote control yet. Do NOT push the button on the receiver (the remote control and receiver are already preset in the factory to c
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Operation Operation Refer to these buttons and indicator on the Stagehand remote control and USB receiver when reading the operation instructions. Laser pointer button Up button Reprogram button Down button Power, signal, and reprogramming On/Off button LED indicator Function button LED illumination light button The following instructions describe operation using PowerPoint on a Windows PC. COMMONLY USED FUNCTIONS Start slide show (F5 command) When in normal or slide sorter view, push an
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Operation Black screen (B command) When in slide show view, push and hold the function button for more than two seconds until the screen turns black. To return to the slide show, repeat the same procedure, or simply push and release the up or down button. Laser pointer Push and hold the laser pointer button. The laser beam will stay on for a maximum of 20 seconds. Push again to turn on again. See ADVANCED FUNCTIONS below for information about how to disable the laser pointer for safety purp
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Operation ADVANCED FUNCTIONS White screen (W command) When in slide show view, push and hold the function button, and without releasing, push the LED illumination light button within two seconds. If you do not push the LED illumination light button within two seconds, you will invoke the black screen function instead. To return to the slide show, repeat the same procedure, or simply push and release the up or down button. Toggle window (Alt-Tab command) To toggle among open slide shows and
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Operation Reprogram up and down buttons The default settings for the up and down buttons are: Up button = page up command Down button = page down command The buttons can be reprogrammed, but only as a pair of changes, not individually. To reprogram, push and hold the function button, and without releasing, push BOTH the up button AND the down button (AT THE SAME TIME) within two seconds. If you do not push the up button and down button within two seconds, you will invoke the black screen
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Operation Reprogram remote control ID code and channel You can randomly reprogram the Stagehand ID code and RF channel on the remote control. The ID code and channel reprogram at the same time – you cannot reprogram them separately. Why reprogram the remote control • Another Stagehand remote control coincidentally was randomly set at the factory, or randomly reprogrammed by a user, to the same ID code as yours and is causing conflicts. Since there are 65,535 different ID codes, this coincid
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Operation Reprogram USB receiver The reprogram button on the USB receiver features a sophisticated design that allows it to: • Learn and use simultaneously up to eight remote control ID codes and channels. • Erase all learned ID codes and channels and go back to having just one learned ID code and channel. • Accept all ID codes and channels. Why reprogram the receiver • I f you reprogrammed the remote control due to an ID code or channel conflict as described in the previous section, then
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Operation How to reprogram the receiver Add ID code and channel: (If you are reprogramming for the purpose of avoiding conflicts, skip to the next section since you will first want to erase all ID codes and channels) With the USB receiver plugged into the powered on computer, take a narrow instrument, such as the uncurled end of a paperclip, and push and hold the reprogram button on the USB receiver until the LED indicator on the receiver (not the LED illumination light on the remote con
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Operation Erase all ID codes and channels (original and added) and learn new one: Follow the “Add ID code and channel” procedure described above, but instead of releasing the receiver button after two flashes, continue to hold the button without releasing for two more seconds until the LED indicator on the receiver flashes four times. Then quickly release the button within two seconds. Presuming you want the receiver to learn the ID code and channel of your remote control because you have
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Q1: I cannot control my slide show, and the laser pointer and LED illumination light are also not working. A1: Check the following: 1. Make sure the on/off switch on the remote control is in the “on” position (up). 2. Ma ke sure there is a CR2032 coin cell battery with the printed text face up inside the battery compartment and that the battery compartment cover is locked tight. 3. C onsider the possibility that the
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Q3: I cannot control my slide show, but my laser pointer and LED illumination light are working. A3: Check the following: 1. Make sure you have a slide show open and that the slide show responds to buttons on your keyboard (if it does not respond to the keyboard, it also will not respond to Stagehand commands). 2. Make sure you are using a Stagehand USB receiver and that the receiver is fully plugged into the USB port (a solid color LED on the receiver
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) 9. Make sure your computer is running a compatible operating system (Windows Vista or XP or Mac OS X). 10. Mac OS X, some presentation programs, and some versions of PowerPoint may not respond to certain Stagehand keyboard commands. Check that by doing the same commands on a keyboard that Stagehand sends and see how the program responds. 11. Make sure you are using the Stagehand slide show control buttons correctly per the Operation section. Not
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Q4: Can I use a USB hub, USB extension cable, or laptop docking station? A4: In principle yes, but you might find sometimes hubs and docking stations do not work. Q5: What should I do if there are multiple Stagehand remote controls in use in close proximity to each other and the signal of one is interfering with another? A5: T he Stagehand and its receiver are set to a random Stagehand ID code and RF channel in the factory, and only remote controls and r
