In order to enter the programming mode, the dimmer should be pluged into a wall outlet, a light bulb should be plugged into it and then the touch sensor should be continually touched over the period of a few seconds, untill both the light bulb connected to the dimmer and a small signalling LED on its housing start blinking. After five consecutive blinks, only the LED continues bliking which is a signal to the user that the device has activated the programming mode and that it expects new IR commands to arrive.

If no IR command is sent by the user in approximately 10 seconds after the last one, the device will exit the programming mode, which it indicates by blinking again the light bulb + signalling LED five times.

Each command must be received by the dimmer twice in order for it to accept it. The user should therefore press each remote control button not once but twice before moving on to a next button. After each button press, the dimmer will blink both the connected light bulb and the signalling LED once. Only after that, the user should carry on pressing the same button for the second time or switching on to the next remote control button.

In programming mode, remote control buttons should be depressed shortly as sending an IR code by the remote control unit last merely a fraction of a second. A command will not be memorised "better" if button is held down longer.

In case the user has miscounted the number of button presses, so that the same button has been depressed more than twice, the dimmer will blink only the signalling LED for a second but not the connected light bulb. This way it notes the user that that particular remote control button has already been accepted as a valid IR command.

IR touch dimmer is able to memorise up to 5 separate IR commands, but the user can program less should she or he find it convenient. Also, previously memorised IR commands can easily be erased by activating the programming mode and then simply memorising no commands. New commands can overwrite the old ones limitles number of times. Once entered, IR command codes are held in the device microprocessor non-volatile memory for more than a hundred years. In order to ensure glitch-free device operation, users are advised to reprogram IR commands every century or so...

Actual meaning of each IR command depends on the total number of commands memorised. The exact meaning of each command in each possible case is given in the tables below: