Innotech Systems SpitFIRE III - Manual (Page 12)

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channel button to control your cable box, you can temporarily disable smart-source. When smart
source is turned off, you can use the slot buttons to determine what device the numbers control.
Once the VCR is set to the proper channel, you can turn smart source back on and resume the
automatic slot selection you programmed.
Auto-Search
Auto-Search mode causes the Spitfire to transmit a button from each device in the library, wait 3
seconds, and then move to the next device until told to stop. There are two auto-search modes in
the Spitfire, Category and Brand Auto-search.
Category auto-search will search through an entire category (TV, DVD, VCR, etc) of devices
from the database. The currently active slot determines the category of the search. For example,
selecting the TV slot will only search for TVs. Selecting the AUX slot will search through the
entire library without regard to category. The button sequence to start a category auto-search is...
Function Status returned
Send a Slot button Flash 1
Send PROGRAM Flash 2
Send SEARCH
AutoSearch
The Spitfire will start its search from the currently programmed device code in the currently
active slot. It will transmit the POWER button, and then pause 3 seconds to give the user time to
respond. Before each IR message is sent, the IC8205A returns an IR Xmit Start status byte.
When the IR transmission is done, it sends a IR Xmit Complete status byte.
The Spitfire will stop searching when one of the following happens:
Function Status returned
Send PROGRAM code
Code is saved in the currently active slot Flash 3
Send one of the 6 slot codes
Code is saved in the selected slot Flash 3
Send any other button
Search is aborted. No code saved
Search will stop automatically when all of the pertinent codes have been sent.