Purchased a TIU with no Remote: how do you add a remote to the TIU?

I bought a used one.  And it just discovered it on its own.

Most residential users of DCS use one TIU, so the likely address is #1. On the off chance that the address isn't #1, simply take the remote and add the other TIUs to it (#2-#5), then turn on the TIU and press "Read" on your remote. Make sure the other TIU's you have are turned off. It will engage a read for the TIU when it finds it; the other addresses will be "Not Found".

first you have to purchase a WORKING DCS REMOTE and then set the tiu to channel 1 and the remote has to be set to 0 which is one for communication to the tiu after setting up with remote n tiu turned on and dcs set to aon which means all channels on. then press read button on lower left bottom of remote tiu will then answer tiu 1 found. at that point you now know tiu n remote is working the you can add engine to remote! then start your engine with dcs start command!

Alan

@AGHRMatt posted:

Most residential users of DCS use one TIU, so the likely address is #1. On the off chance that the address isn't #1, simply take the remote and add the other TIUs to it (#2-#5), then turn on the TIU and press "Read" on your remote. Make sure the other TIU's you have are turned off. It will engage a read for the TIU when it finds it; the other addresses will be "Not Found".

thanks!  very much!

@Alan Mancus posted:

first you have to purchase a WORKING DCS REMOTE and then set the tiu to channel 1 and the remote has to be set to 0 which is one for communication to the tiu after setting up with remote n tiu turned on and dcs set to aon which means all channels on. then press read button on lower left bottom of remote tiu will then answer tiu 1 found. at that point you now know tiu n remote is working the you can add engine to remote! then start your engine with dcs start command!

Alan

thanks alan!

You don't have to set the remote  to zero, it appears they don't actually look at that value.   If you buy a used TIU, you may have to hunt around to find it by adding TIU's to the remote.

@Chris D posted:

thanks!  very much!

You're most welcome. The internal pilot LED on the TIU will turn on for a second, then flash a number of times according to the number assigned, but sometimes it's hard to see. I like to verify with a read. 

It worked!  I assigned the remote to TIU #2.  hit read..  put on a PS2 trolley to test and it turned it on.  I tried both fixed 1 and 2 to make sure they work and it does.   Its a used TIU  a REV I.  

Glad you figured it out I new is should not be to difficult to make the tiu talk to remote!

Alan