RC-100 showing "Waiting for External Control" or "Initializing Radio", wrong function

Potential Symptoms

  • RC-100 shows "Waiting for External Control" or "Initializing radio" when attempting to connect to the RC-100 Base Station, but does not change.
  • When used for Tennis scoreboard, RC-100 is not prompting for a Court number. Tries connecting on channel "X", but next prompt is Press ENT to retry/clear to set channel.

Environment

  • Product: Scoreboard
  • Component: RC-100 Base station function and remote channel settings
  • Control System: RC-100 Handheld and Base Station

Cause

  • Function dial set wrong internally in base station.

Resolution

  1. Power on the RC-100 handheld device and check what firmware revision it is.  Before or after V2.2 will dictate the function dial setting within the RC-100 Base Station.
    1. RC-100 handhelds with firmware V2.2 or higher, or with a manufacturer date of August 2006 or greater, the base station function dial needs to be set to Function 5. 
    2. RC-100 handhelds with firmware V1.6 or lower the base station function dial needs to be set to Function 2.  
  2. Change the RC-100 Base Station function dial to the correct setting as determined in step 1.

RC-100 Base station function table.jpg 

Additional Information

KB ID: DD2233192


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