AHANIX iMon Universal IR Remote Control System

Ahanix iMon Review - Installation & Setup

Installation of the iMon is fairly straight-forward. The card we find in the box explains the three basic steps to installing the iMon.

The first step is of course inserting the CD into our computer and running the auto-install process. We do not want to plug in the iMon just yet. The installation program will start and you will be walked through a standard installation process for the software. Once the software has been succesfully installed, we can plug the iMon in, and (hopefully) it will detect the device and automatically configure the proper drivers for it.

The first thing we see upon entering the CD is the Setup Manager window, which asks for you to read the installation documentation and agree that you understand it. Once you click Start Setup you will see the InstallShield Wizard, which will guide you through a normal application installation process. As soon as the installation completes succesfully, you will be asked to select your RC:

In this case, we are choosing the IMON RSC option. The installation should finish at this point and let us know that our new iMon was succesfully installed! We can now plug the iMon into a USB port in our PC and open the iMon icon that was created on your desktop.

This loads up the iMon Manager where we can configure our device. From here we can opt to use a different remote control altogether, but for the purposes of this review we will of course select the "iMON RSC" under the RC caption.

The Option button will give us access to six device-level configuration screens, shown below.

Common: Here you can configure a sound to be played when an identified or unidentified IR signal is received. You can also set the remote to control only one application at all times.

Mouse: This screen lets you configure the mouse speed when controlled by the iMon.

Keyboard: This screen lets you configure the keyboard repeat speed when controlled by the iMon.

Timer: This screen lets provides configuration options for the timer, including alarm duration and default sound.

Screen Resolution: Here you can configure the screen resolution(s) you use. Why? I have no idea.

Virtual Keyboard: This screen can be very handy. You can configure any of the ten numerical buttons on the iMon to type out a character string. Some ideas might be commonly used usernames, web sites, etc.

The configuration settings above are the most basic options for your iMon. Now we can look at the extended configuration screen and see what this device can really do for us.

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