How to Program the ERA-PIR Transmitter to the ERA-DCRX Receiver

Watch the video below to program the ERA-PIR transmitter to the ERA-DCRX receiver.
If you want information on pairing the ERA-UTX transmitter to the receiver, click here. Alternatively, you can watch this video and activate the ERA-UTX by pressing the push button on the unit rather than triggering the passive infrared motion sensor (ERA-PIR).

Video Transcript: Programming the ERA Motion Sensor to ERA-DCRX Receiver

 Good morning. My name is Michael with Safeguard Supply, and today I’m going to demonstrate how to program or pair the ERA PIR transmitter, which is this unit here, to the ERA-DCRX receiver located here. Now purchased together as a set, It’s called the ERA-PRDCR. This is a motion activated passive infrared sensor transmitter, and this is a plugin receiver.

So the first thing we’re gonna want to do is make sure that the receiver is turned on. I’ve got it plugged into a standard wall outlet here, and you can’t really see it because the lights, but there’s a green LED in the corner here and that lets you know that the unit is actually on. You can also use the volume button to scroll through the volume, mute, and then on and off.

Now, when that red light is on, that means the system is muted. If I push it again, there’s no light here, the unit is off. But if I push it one more time, all four of these LEDs are going to come on, and then this is going to turn green.

So when pushing the volume button, all four LEDs, red, means that it’s on the highest volume setting. The next thing is to make sure there’s a 9 volt battery inside this transmitter. If I turn the transmitter over, you’re going to notice there’s a screw well here. And just using a Phillips head screwdriver, go ahead and take the screw out.

And once you do that, the two pieces of this case should separate fairly easily. I’ve inserted a 9 volt battery just to make this demonstration go a little bit quicker. But I want to bring your attention to a couple of things. You just saw that red light go on. And that’s because the photo cell here detected motion and it went ahead and transmitted a radio signal.

You can also manually transmit by pushing the test button located right above the battery. So I’m gonna put this to the side. We’ve got everything turned on, ready to go, and the next step is to put the receiver in program mode. Now this has four zones. You can program up to four transmitters per zone.

Most people will put a distinct melody in each zone and pair one transmitter per zone. That way you can determine which door or which entryway triggered the receiver. But for this demonstration, we’re just going to program this transmitter sensor to zone number one on the receiver. So the first thing we’re going to want to do is, again, make sure the unit’s on, the green LED is on.

And I’m going to put the unit in program mode for zone number one. So the way to do that is to hold down the mode, the mode button for about three seconds, and you’re going to see that zone one is flashing. So that means I’m about to program into zone one. Now using the zone button, I can scroll to the other zones if I want to transmit or program a transmitter to another zone.

I’m going to go back to zone one here. And then the next step is to trigger the transmitter. Now it could be a push button. It could be a door window contact. In this case, it’s a motion sensor. I can either wave my hand over the photo cell, which will trigger this unit, which would then pair it to the receiver, which is in program mode, or I can push that test button.

Now it detected my hand moving. You heard that quick little melody or tone sound. That means it’s successfully programmed. So what I’m going to do now is exit programming mode. I’m going to hold down the mode button again.

Now it’s programmed. By default, each zone on the receiver is programmed to play the simple ding dong sound. If you’ve got one transmitter and you’re happy with that sound, you’re basically done. Uh, if you have a second transmitter and you want to pick a separate sound for that, you can certainly do so.

Or if you want to change the sound. So what I’m going to do is walk you through the process of changing the sound in Zone 1. Each sound is assigned to a particular zone. So what I’m going to do here is hold down the Zone button.

Similar in the sense that Zone 1 is flashing. The other zone lights are solid. That’s just the difference between programming a transmitter to the unit versus programming a melody to the zone. But Zone 1 is flashing, so that lets me know that I’m going to choose a melody for Zone 1. And then you’re going to notice the volume button again.

If I push the volume button, I will toggle and scroll through the different melodies available.

That’s a standard ding dong sound available pre programmed to each zone. If I push it again, that’s more of an electronic ding dong sound. That’s the one that I’ve decided I want to use for zone one. So now what I’m going to do is hold down the zone button again and exit melody program mode. Short tone, all the LEDs went off, the green one is still on.

Now if I wave my hand in front of that transmitter, I should hear that new ding dong sound that I programmed to zone number one.

So I hope that was helpful. Please email us at info at safeguardsupply or call us at 800 366 7235. Thank you.