Extender
  • Extender Manual
  • Introduction
    • Safety Precautions
    • Specifications
    • Regulatory Compliance
    • What's in the box
    • External features
    • System requirements
  • Getting started
    • Syncing real-time clock
    • Updating firmware
    • Formatting SD Card
  • Modes of operation
    • Power only mode and Trigger Input
    • SD card recording mode
    • Pass-through mode
    • USB drive mode
  • Extender Details
    • Extender Button Functionality
    • Extender LED Functionality
    • Extender Charging
  • Hardware Triggering
    • Trigger Input & Cable
    • Example 1: 1s Pulses
    • Example 2: Serial Triggering
    • Example 3: MATLAB
  • Data Access
    • Downloading recordings
    • Decrypting recordings
    • Exported data format
  • Troubleshooting
    • Hardware Reset
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  1. Modes of operation

Pass-through mode

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Last updated 5 years ago

Pass through mode allow you to use your EMOTIV headset while it is plugged in. To operate Extender as a pass-through device with your headset, please follow these instructions:

  1. The headset with attempt a wireless connection before the USB and it is advisable to unplug all EMOTIV Universal USB receivers and disable BLE devices previously paired with the headset.

  2. Plug Extender into an open USB socket. The PC connection is the smaller mini-B USB port on left edge of Extender.

  3. Turn Extender ON.

  4. Plug the headset into the other USB port of Extender using the supplied charge cable.

  5. Turn on the headset. The USB detection system of your device should register a disconnection and a new USB connection which simulates an EMOTIV USB Receiver.

  6. Start up your EMOTIV application. The application should register the presence of the Insight connected through Extender.

  7. If the connection does not work, power cycle the headset, then power cycle Extender.

Hardware triggering can be used in pass-through mode.