Universal remote mx 700 manual

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Contact Us. Find a Dealer. Dealer Portal. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Nonetheless, I recently retired the MX to the bedroom and replaced it with its big brother, the MX The ability to control additional devices and the greater macro support won me over, since both had the potential to help with controlling a system that had become somewhat more complex since the arrival of an HDTV last year, and the computer interface intrigued me.

A little perusing on eBay turned up a brand new MX for quite a bit less than the retail price. The MX and MX are closely related. Both use the same basic shell although the MX discards a few buttons at the bottom and adds one above the navigation pad , and both have been around for about the same amount of time.

The MX is still a classic of sorts, and based on my experience with the MX I felt that it would be an excellent fit for our needs. The unit comes packaged in a simple cardboard box with the remote, serial cable, and four batteries tucked securely into a formed plastic cradle inside. The omission of the MX's trio of macro buttons from the bottom of the face would seem to be a minor change, but it actually made the hard button area seem noticeably less congested.

The nearly-white face is also a nice touch, making the remote stand out from the usual black plastic remotes. MX and MX side by side As mentioned above, the MX package comes with the remote, batteries, and serial cable. That means there is no manual or software in the box. This is because the MX was and still is intended as a custom install product, and the custom installers would get a single program CD and user's manual.

Fortunately, Universal Remotes had a good web site at the time, and this download page gave me everything I needed. In August , URC scaled back their site drastically and removed the installation software and programming manuals. You can still get the user's manuals from there, but software and programming manuals must come from your authorized distributor.

I have mirrored the user's manual , MX Editor , and MX Editor Programming Manual on my site as well as some other software, listed in the Customization section below , but you should check with your authorized dealer to get newer versions. Now that we've met the MX and gathered the manual and software, it's time to get down to the nitty-gritty: configuring it to operate my devices.

Instead, the MX is configured through a PC interface. There is not that same degree of control available with the MX, if only because the MX's button layout is fixed and the LCD screen's buttons are as with the MX limited to five character labels.

MX Configuration Software While the MX may not offer the level of personal customization of a Pronto, it does provide a convenient interface for configuring the remote. The program contains an extensive database of device codes, and the database is regularly updated through a simple automated download called Live Update in the software to include additional codes as Universal Remote adds to their master database.

You can download configuration files from Remote Central , either complete remote configuration files uploaded by other MX users or simply individual device configuration files created for a specific component.

I downloaded some files that gave me learned remote codes for a few of my devices, but in general I wanted to arrange the buttons on each device in a manner that best suited us, so there was a lot that I simply elected to learn manually. UPDATE: On August 1, , Universal Remote pulled all software from their site, disabled the Live Update feature in existing versions, and revised their policy to only allow authorized dealers to distribute software updates to owners.

The goal is to cripple the large number of unauthorized dealers selling products online for significantly lower prices. Another unfortunate side-effect is that potential customers can no longer download the software and "test drive" it. I'm not particularly comfortable with Universal Remote's choice, especially since I've long considered their hardware to be some of the best around. For folks considering the MX who may want to experiment with an older version of the software before buying, I've still got a copy of the final "pre-policy change" MX Editor software available for download here.

I do not have the current Live Update enabled versions of any of them, as they must be obtained through an authorized distributor. First, let me touch on some of the MX software's strengths. Features such as punch-through and macros are extremely easy to implement, especially compared to the methods usually required for universal remotes. It is also easy to place duplicates of commands from one device onto another device the program calls these "shortcuts". With the MX's software, it's a simple matter of picking "HDTV" from one pull-down, picking the input button from another pull-down, and revising the button label to FIXTV it automatically changes to match the label of the button being duplicated.

Be aware, however, that the shortcuts link to a specific button position on the remote; moving the original button to a different place will break any shortcuts. When learning multiple commands to a device, the software offers a convenient "continue to next button" setting that saves the properly-received code for the button and automatically goes to the next button to wait for the next signal. The only paper "instructions" are more of an overall feature set which you can then leave with the user as a short overview on the general use of the remote control once you've programed it for their equipment.

If you're looking for something that doesn't require a computer interface, consider the MX, and if RF is your bag, then the MX gives you all the functionality and power of the MX, but with an RF interface so you don't have to physically point the remote control at your audio equipment. Only 3 pins of the cable are really used, and we'd recommend getting additional cables directly from Home Theater Master if you need more for instance, if you bought an OEM 3-pack to split with friends.

Except for a couple quirky interface issues, using the MX Editor software was a breeze. You are basically dealing with a visual representation of the MX remote control, with access to all of the buttons and a database of IR commands from many industry remote controls. The first thing to do is run a 'Live Update' from the help menu to get the latest firmware, IR codes and software updates.

In either case, using these codes enabled me to have the MX programmed fairly quickly with the IR database codes. It would be great if that was all there was to it, but then again, I could have bought a 5-in-1 remote control from Home Depot if that's all I wanted.

Your next step will be to decide what modifications to make to enable your system to be operated most efficiently from the MX Here are some basic suggestions for a geral approach to what I feel is a practical programming setup:. All in all, you can really get alot out of the MX Editor software.