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Programming the Remote

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The AVR45RDS is equipped with a powerful
backlit remote control that will control up
to seven additional devices, in addition to
all the features of the AVR45RDS. It is pre-
programmed to operate most CD players
and cassette decks manufactured by
Harman Kardon, and it may also be
programmed with codes from most current
infrared remote controls. This means that
once programmed, the AVR45RDS remote
will not only operate your receiver and
audio system, but most TV sets, VCRs, DVD
and LD players, satellite systems, set-top
converters and other IR controlled home
theater or home automation equipment.

The AVR45RDS remote is programmed at
the factory to operate the AVR45RDS, as
well as most Harman Kardon CD players
and cassette decks.

To operate the AVR45RDS, be certain that
you have pressed the 

a

so that the red light illuminates under the
AVR button. Note that the red light will also
flash briefly whenever a remote command
button is pressed.

To operate a comparable Harman Kardon
CD player or cassette deck, press the
appropriate 

b

. The red light under the CD or Tape

button will illuminate briefly to confirm
your selection, and the light will flash
whenever a button is pushed that has a
function for these products.

Note that when using a CD player or tape
deck, you will find that many of the
buttons have markings on the remote that
indicate both their AVR function as well as
their CD or TAPE function. For example,
the 

t

buttons are

the fast forward or rewind buttons for a

cassette deck or for a CD player. The

u

operate the

standard forward and reverse play,
pause/record and stop functions,
depending on the type of machine in use.
The 

⁄

¤

buttons 

g

operate the disk

skip function on CD changers, and the

l

may operate the

numeric select functions on CD players.
Other buttons on the remote with
additional markings above or below the
button may have these dual functions. For
example the 

button 

m

selects the

time indication in the display on CD
players, the 

button 

q

will turn

on their random function and the 

button 

x

their intro function. If any

button is pressed, that is preprogrammed
(or manually programmed, see below) for
the device selected, the red LED under its

b

will

light. There is no harm in experimenting
to see which buttons operate with your
specific Harman Kardon equipment.

Alternate Harman Kardon 
CD Player Code
In some cases, the CD player codes that are
programmed at the factory may not
operate your Harman Kardon CD player. In
that case, follow these steps to program an
alternate set of codes.

1. Press the 

b

and the 

button 

d

at the same time, and hold them until the
red light under the CD button illuminates
and the 

illuminates and remains red.

2. Within 20 seconds, press the 

l

in the following sequence: „0,“

„0,”, „2” (originally the code „0,0,1“ was
programmed). At each button press, the red
LED under the 

and the 

will blink once.

3. Press the 

once, and note that the red LED

under the CD button and the 

will blink twice to

confirm that the new code has been stored,
and then they will both go out.

4. If the new codes still do not operate the
CD player, you may program the functions
from the CD player’s own remote into the
AVR45RDS remote using the steps outlined
below.

In addition to it’s preprogrammed
functions, the AVR45RDS remote may be
taught to learn the commands from
almost any infrared remote that is used to
operate audio, video, home theater or
home automation equipment. This
enables the AVR45RDS remote, once
programmed, to replace a collection of
remotes, and operate your entire
entertainment system from one, powerful
command center.

Learning Commands
The process of learning commands with the
AVR45RDS remote is simple, and feedback
is provided during the process so that you
have the assurance that commands have
been properly stored. All buttons on the
remote may be taught a new function
except the 

button 

p

.

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To program the AVR45RDS remote, follow
these steps:

1. Press and hold the 

b

for the product type you

wish to program (e.g., TV, VCR, etc.) and
the 

button 

i

at the same time

until the 

turns orange and the red LED under

the 

lights.

Both should remain lit.

2. Within 20 seconds, press the button on

the AVR45RDs remote that you wish to
assign a learned command. It is always
a good idea to start with the 

button 

c

, though you may teach the

buttons in any order that you wish. Note
that the orange 

will begin to flash

continuously, and the LED under the

b

will

go out.

3. Point the LED transmitter from the

source remote control towards the front
of the AVR45RDS remote. Press and hold
the button on the source remote to be
learned until the 

lights green. Release

the button on the source remote control,
the status LED will return to a constant
orange color.

4. Verify that the command has been

learned correctly by pressing and
holding the same button on the source
remote control once again. Release the
button on the source remote when the

flashes green twice, and then returns to
a constant orange color. This indicates
that the IR code was programmed from
the source remote to the AVR45RDS

remote successfully. When the status
LED flashes red in step 3 or 4, then the
IR code was not programmed. Try steps
2 through 4 again but hold the source
remote button pressed for some seconds
after the status LED turned green in step
3. If the status LED keeps flashing red in
step 3 or 4, this code cannot be
programmed.

5. Repeat steps 2 through 4 for each button

command that you wish to transfer from
the source remote to the AVR45RDS
remote for this specific source device.

6. When all desired commands have been

taught from the source remote to the
AVR45RDS remote, press and hold the

b

and

the 

button 

i

at the same time

until the 

flashes twice, and then goes out, and

the red LED under the 

turns off. This indicates that

the codes have been saved to the
AVR45RDS remote’s memory.

7. Follow steps 1 through 6 to program the

AVR45 RDS remote for the codes from a
different source remote.

The AVR45RDS remote allows you to edit
the command functions by erasing a
single command within one device, to
erase all commands for a single device, or
to erase all commands that have been
programmed into the memory of the
remote for all devices. Note, that all
preprogrammed commands will never be
erased.

Erasing A Single Learned Command
To erase a single command from those
memorized for a specific device follow
these steps:

1. Press the 

b

for the desired device (e.g., TV, VCR,

etc.) and the 

button 

i

at the

same time until the LED under the

turns red

and the 

turns and remains orange.

2. Press the button on the AVR45RDS

remote for which you wish to have the
code erased. The red LED under the

b

will

go out and the 

will flash orange.

3. Press the 

button 

p

. The

will

flash green twice, and then turn to a
steady orange color. The red LED under
the 

b

will turn back on.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for any other

buttons where you wish to erase the code
that has been programmed.

5. When you are finished erasing any codes

that need to be erased, press and hold
the 

b

and the 

button 

i

at the same

time. The red LED under the 

will turn off and the

will

flash twice and then turn off.

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Erasing All the Learned Commands For a
Single Device
To erase all the commands for a single
device, follow these steps:

1. Press the 

b

for the desired device (e.g., CD, TV,

VCR etc.) and the 

button 

i

at the

same time until the LED under the

turns red

and the 

turns and remains orange.

2. Press and hold the 

button 

p

.

The 

will flash red five times, then the red
LED under the 

b

will turn off and the

will

flash green twice, and then turn to a
steady orange color. The red LED under
the 

b

will turn back on.

3. Now release the 

button 

p

.

4. At this point, all the learned codes for the

device have been erased. To complete the
process, press and hold the 

b

and the 

button 

p

at the same time until the

flashes orange twice and then goes out,
and the red LED under the 

turns off.

Erasing All Learned Commands
To erase ALL commands that have been
learned to all buttons in the remote, follow
the instruction shown below. Note that this
will erase all commands for the CD, TAPE,
SAT, TV, VCR, CBL and AUX devices, but it
will not erase the commands for the
AVR45RDS, itself and all preprogrammed
commands for all devices.

To erase all learned commands, press and
hold the 

b

and the 

button 

p

at the same

time until the 

flashes red ten times, then green

once and orange once. When the

stops

flashing and turns off, all learned
commands have been erased from the
AVR45RDS remote control.

The AVR45RDS remote is equipped 
with a soft back light that will illuminate
the remote’s buttons so that they will be
more visible in the darkened room
environment common to home theater
settings.

To illuminate the back light, simply press
the 

button 

p

. The back light will

remain on for eight seconds and then go
out. The light will remain on for an
additional eight seconds each time any
button is pressed on the remote while the
light is already on.

Note that excessive use of the back light
will shorten battery life.

The AVR45RDS’s remote may be
programmed to operate the 

z

and 

button 

d

from

either the TV or the AVR to operate in
conjunction with any of the eight devices
controlled by the remote. For example,
since the AVR45RDS will likely be used as
the sound system for TV viewing, you may
wish to have the AVR’s volume activated
when the remote is set to run the TV. Either
the AVR or TV volume control may be
associated with any of the remote’s devices.

To program the remote for Volume Punch-
Through, follow these steps:

1. Press the 

b

for the device you wish to have

associated with the volume control
(e.g., TV, SAT, etc.) and the 

button 

d

at the same time until the

red light illuminates under the 

.

2. Press the 

button 

z

.

3. Press either the 

a

or the 

b

,

depending on which system’s volume
control you wish to have attached for
the punch-through mode. Note that the
red light under the 

will blink twice and then go

out to confirm the data entry.

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Example: To have the AVR’s volume
control be activated even though the
remote is set to control the TV, first press
the 

b

, and the 

button 

d

at the

same time. Next, press the 

button 

z

, followed by the 

a

.

NOTE: Should you wish to return the
remote to the original configuration after
entering a Volume Punch-Through, you
will need to repeat the steps shown above.
However, press the same Device Control
Selector in steps one and three.

The Power button may be programmed to
send out a sequence of up to ten com-
mands when it is pushed. This enables you
to turn on a number of products, and have
a program source turn to a favorite
channel or any other command. In
addition, a separate set of macro
command steps may be programmed for
audio devices and video devices.

Note that only buttons preprogrammed or
manually programmed can be used for
macro programming.

To program a macro into the Power
button, follow these steps:

1. Press either the 

button 

a

to

program one Power macro, or the 

b

to

program another Power macro, and the

button 

d

at the same time until

the red light under the 

turns on and the

lights red.

• When you press the 

button 

a

in this step, the macro steps
programmed will play back and
operate in the same fashion when the
Power button is pressed for the AVR,
CD, TAPE or AUX device selectors.

• When you press the 

b

in this step, the

macro steps programmed will play back
and operate in the same fashion when
the Power button is pressed for the SAT,
TV, VCR or CBL device selectors.

2. Press the 

button 

c

.

3. Enter up to ten macro steps by pressing the

b

for any

Audio or Video device to which you wish to
have the command sent, and then the
function button for each step you wish to
enter. Note that pressing the 

to change devices is

considered one of the ten macro steps
available.

• To enter the “Power On/Off” command

during macro programming, press the

button 

d

. DO NOT press the

actual Power button.

• Note that the 

buttons 

z `

may NOT be used

during a macro program sequence.

4. When all steps, up to ten, have been

entered, press the 

button 

`

to enter the commands. The

red light under the Device Control
Selector will blink twice and then turn
off.

Example: To program your TV, Cable Box
and the AVR45RDS to turn on when the
Power button is pressed, first press-and-hold
the 

b

and 

buttons 

d

until

the red light comes on under the 

button and then the 

button 

c

.

Next, press the 

button 

a

to select

the AVR mode and then the 

button

d

to enter the Power command for the

AVR. Press the 

b

to select the TV mode, and

then press the 

button 

d

again, to

select TV Power. Finally, press the 

b

followed

by the 

button 

d

to select Cable

Power. Press the 

button 

`

to enter the commands.

After following these steps, each time
you press the 

button 

c

, after

either the 

, 

, 

or 

b

has

been pressed, the remote will send all
the “Power On/Off” commands.

Erasing a Power Button Macro
To remove a macro program, follow steps
1, 2 and 4 above, but do not follow step
three. For example, to erase the macro for
the video devices just entered, press the

b

and the 

button 

d

at the same

time until the red light under the 

button turns on. Press the 

button

c

, and then press the 

button 

`

. The red light under the

will blink

twice to confirm the data erasing and then
turn off.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If the macro
programming was made with the 

button 

a 

the 

button 

c

cannot be used anymore to only turn on/off
the power of any Audio device (AVR, CD,
Tape) even not of the AVR45RDS itself.
Pressing the Power button after any Audio
device was selected by the appropriate

b

will

always play the macro programmed. The
same is with all Video devices (SAT, TV, VCR,
CBL) if the macro was made with the 

button 

b

.