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AMi configuration - Remote controls

To access the AMi configuration window, select your AMi device in the list on the left side of the I/O page and then click the button to Configure this device in the ribbon bar.

Introduction

AMi is supplied with a five-button remote control. In many cases the 5 buttons will be sufficient, but you may encounter situations where you need more buttons and therefore you'll need another remote control.

AMi can work with up to 6 remote controls, each of which has a unique address, and you can use this page to choose which addresses you want AMi to recognise.

Figure 1. The Remote controls page of the AMi configuration window.

Details

AMi remote controls have addresses, which are codes they transmit when a button is pressed. The remote control shipped with your AMi will have the default address of '1', but we can supply remotes with other addresses if you need them.

Typically, there are two reasons why you might need a remote with a different address:

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If you need more than five buttons, then you will need multiple remotes and each one will need to have a different address so that AMi will know which remote control a button has been pressed on. For example, if you have 10 open fields and you use remote controls to start tests in them, then you will need 2 remotes with different addresses - probably address 1 and address 2. Thus the five buttons on remote '1' can start tests in the first 5 open fields, and buttons on remote '2' can start tests on the second 5.

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If you have two ANY-maze systems, both of which include an AMi, then you will want to use different addresses for their remote controls. If you don't do this, then someone using the other system could start tests in your experiment, because your AMi will respond to their remote control - and remember the remotes work through walls, so this problem could arise even if the systems are in different rooms.

If you have remotes with different addresses, then you need to use the Remote controls page of the AMi configuration window to specify which remote control addresses you want AMi to respond to. In the first situation, above, you would want AMi to respond to both address 1 and address 2, while in the second situation you would want one AMi system to respond to the remote with address 1 and the other AMi system to respond to the remote with address 2.

ANY-maze help topic T1158