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Xtender
Installation Manual
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Contents Chapter 1 Welcome Now You Can Setup Overview What You Need Basic Definitions Remote Lights – Understand What the Remote is Trying to Tell You Chapter 2 Installing the SuperCombiner Locate Your Cable/Satellite TV Box Locate the Splitter Find the main Cable Feed Connecting the SuperCombiner Chapter 3 Installing the Extender Typical Xtender Home Cable or Satellite System Select Location Connect Xtender Connect Audio/Video Devices Red Channel Setup Green Cha
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Chapter 1 Welcome Welcome to the World of Whole-Home Entertainment Choices The BOCS Xtender will allow you and your family to Xtend the entertainment options from your main system to all the TVs in your home. This sounds like a simple proposition, but until now you could only do this by adding redundant equipment or have a very expensive and complicated audio/video distribution system installed in your home. Now You Can… Reduce the number of boxes in your home – ins
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What You Need Tools Small pair of pliers Flat-blade screwdriver What's in the Box? Xtender Xtender Unit SuperCombiner Power Supply for Xtender Universal BOCS Remote Control Xtender Installation Kit Coax Power Adaptor Cable Finder Color Coded Combination Audio/Video Cables (3) IR Blaster Cables (3) Basic Terms used in this manual A/V Device – Anything like a DVD player, VCR, TiVo DVR, Cable box or other device that you plug into Xtender to watch through
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Remote Control Lights - When in Programming Mode – The power light comes on and stays on. Generally you have 10 seconds to enter a command or the remote will exit Programming Mode. Programming Success – The remote flashes the power button light two times Programming Error – The remote fast flashes the power button light for one second Remote Out-Of-Range – Alternating flash of power button light and Xtender Channel lights (Red/Green/Blue) – this occurs if the remote is too
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What’s on the Front Panel? 2 3 1 1. Learning Window Xtender has the ability to learn remote control codes just in case you can’t find one in our remotes that works. There is a simple procedure to follow in the “Programming the Remote” section. This window is where you point your remote control during that process to allow Xtender to learn to control things that are plugged into it. 2. Xtender Activity Lights These lights flash when anyone in the home i
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What’s on the Back Panel? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1. Power The AC adapter plugs in here – only use the adapter that came with Xtender! 2. Reset Button Pushing this button resets Xtender to its factory default settings 3. Red Channel Input Composite Video (Yellow) and Stereo Audio (Red/White) input to Xtender – whatever you plug in here will appear on the Red channel throughout the house 4. Red Channel IR Output A cable with a stick-on infrared emitter on
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What’s on the Remote? Xtender Channel Activity Lights 1 18. Power Xtender Channel Buttons 2 19. Local TV Menu 3 20. Live TV Info and “A” 4 21. Guide and “B” Exit and “C” 5 22. Last and “D” Mute 6 23. Shift Up 7 24. Right Left 8 25. Select/OK Down 9 26. Channel +/- Vol +/- 10 27. Fast Forward Play 11 28. Pause Rewind 12 29. Skip Stop/Slow 13 30. Record Replay and “PIP” 14 31. Enter +100 15 32. Cable/Sat
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Installation Overview Easy as 1-2-3 Step 1 – Install SuperCombiner The SuperCombiner is a device that is installed just before your main home “root splitter” to distribute your new BOCS channels all over your home. In this step you will: Decide where to put your Xtender. Plug a special Cable-Finder into the nearest CATV outlet. Find and open your cable splitter box. Find the coaxial wire that goes to the room where you put Xtender. Install the SuperCombiner. Step 2 – Install
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Chapter 2 Step 1 Installing the SuperCombiner Select Location for the Xtender Minimum Location Requirements • Coaxial cable outlet nearby • AC power nearby Likely Locations – Choose One: • If you already have a stack of A/V equipment in one place (TiVo DVR, cable box, satellite box, DVR, DVD jukebox etc.), you can put Xtender on top of that stack of equipment. • Or – you can move all that equipment to an out-of-the-way location (e.g. basement, closet, or an office) as long as
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room name in your cable splitter box. If not, we provide a tool in the installation kit so you can find the right wire. To find the right wire, we apply power to that coax wire so that an indicator light on the other end can identify when the correct wire is found. At the closest coax wire jack to the desired Xtender location, and unplug any cable attached to it. You are looking for the adapter that looks like this – it comes with the optional installation kit.
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Locate the Splitter It will be in your cable box and will likely look like one of the following. And it will have wires hooked into most or all of its connectors, so it might be behind a cluttered mess. Find the Powered Cable The cable that was powered in the previous step should be connected to one of the outputs of the splitter. To determine which cable has been powered, unplug the cables one at a time and connect the Cable Finder Tool. If the red light doesn’t il
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Connecting the SuperCombiner • Plug the cable you located with the Cable Finder Tool in the step above into the Xtender port of the SuperCombiner. • Unplug the IN cable from your current splitter and connect it to the RF IN on the SuperCombiner. • Connect a short coax wire between the OUT of the SuperCombiner and the IN of your splitter. Important When you are finished with the system installation, make sure t
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Chapter 3 Step 2 Installing the Xtender Connect Xtender Remove the coax adapter and connect a coax cable from the nearby coaxial wire wall jack (usually located on a plastic plate mounted on a wall) to the “ANT IN” jack on Xtender. Make sure that you rotate the antenna so that it points straight up – this will give you the best range with your wireless remotes. Connect the Audio/Video devices to the Xtender Important Place Xtender on the top of your e
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Red Channel Set Up • TiVo DVR with a cable box that it controls Connect the Device to the Xtender Connect the Audio/Video output of the device to the inputs on the Red channel of the Xtender. (white and red are audio Left and Right, yellow is composite video) Let’s start with a more difficult one – a TiVo DVR that uses a digital cable box to change channels and receive digital cable channels. The cable box gets its input from the Xtender “Antenna Out” connector, it passes channels t
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Connect the “IR Blaster” This cable lets Xtender control the A/V device – IR Cables come in the optional wiring pack. Locate an IR cable in your Xtender Installation Kit (sold separately). Plug the connector of the IR cable into the “IR Out” on the Xtender Red Channel. Locate the IR window on the device that you have plugged into the Red Channel. Peel the back off of the tape on the other end and stick it over the IR window of the audio/video device you previously plugged into the
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Locate the IR window on the device that you have plugged into the Green Channel. Peel the back off of the tape on the other end and stick it over the IR window of the audio/video device you previously plugged into the Green Channel input. Blue Channel Set Up Default DVD Player/Changer Connect the Device to the Xtender As an example, we will connect a DVD player to the Blue Channel. Repeat the same steps as the Red Channel. That is, connect your DVD device to Xtender by plug
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OR Using the RED Channel Out A/V cable connection allows you to pass the A/V device through to your TV for the best possible picture – many people connect their cable DVR box to the Red channel and when watching cable on the TV next to Xtender use the “Video” input on their TV. You can also simply connect your TV to Xtender using the Local-TV output from Xtender – now this TV will function just like all the rest of the TVs in your home and have full access to all the Xtender channel
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Chapter 4 Step 3 Programming the Remotes Three Steps to Programming the Remotes 1. Pair remotes with your Xtender 2. Pick a room, program a remote to work the TV in that room. 3. Program red, green and blue channels 4. Program the rest of the remotes for each room Step 1 – Pair Remotes Why am I doing this? Just like you only want your cordless phone talking to your own base station/phone line, you only want your remotes controlling your Xtender and not your neighbor’s
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• Enter the device code while pointing the remote at the TV – the power light should blink twice indicating a successful code was selected and a power command was sent to the TV. If you get a fast flash, there was an error – we suggest you exit program mode (press remote power button) and start over. • If the TV turns off or on press Select/OK to confirm you found the right code – the power light should blink twice to indicate that the code was saved successfully. • If the TV does not t
