Guide

How to use the remote.

Connecting

Turn the remote on. It searches for a Voltra that is switched on and not connected to the official app, connects to it, and remembers it. From then on it connects to that machine automatically.

A dim dial rim and the words SEARCHING FOR VOLTRA — **Searching.**

VOLTRA NOT FOUND. Confirm Voltra is on and app disconnected. Tap to search again. — **Not found.** Check the machine is on and the app is disconnected, then tap to search again.

100 lb in white on the dial, both gauges idle — **Connected.** The weight shown is what the machine is set to.

If there is more than one Voltra in range, the remote lists them. Tap the one you want. To switch machines later, use Settings › Bluetooth.

The screen

The loaded face: 120 lb in red, the battery at 18% on the left of the number, the drop set icon on the right, CHAINS 0% and ECCENTRIC +25% gauges, and the cable-length button at the bottom — **Loaded at 120 lb** with 25% eccentric, the battery low, and a drop set on.

The big number is the weight, in the unit your machine is set to (lb or kg). White means set but not loaded. Red means loaded.
The ring around the edge fills with the weight and turns red when loaded.
The two gauges are chains and eccentric. See chains and eccentric.
The bottom has the button for adjusting the cable length, and shows your reps and sets, with a rest timer between sets.
Beside the number: the battery appears on the left when it is low, and the drop set icon appears on the right when a drop set is turned on.

Setting the weight

Turn the dial. Turn quickly and the weight moves in steps of 5 lb (2.5 kg). Turn slowly and it moves 1 lb (0.5 kg) at a time. The range is 5 to 200 lb (90 kg), or up to your machine's own maximum if it has overdrive.

Machines above 200 lb. A Voltra with overdrive tells the remote its maximum (230 or 250 lb, for example), and the remote uses it: the dial goes up to it, the rim fills to it, and in kilograms it stops at that maximum rounded down to a whole kilogram (104 kg on a 230 lb machine, 113 kg on a 250 lb one). From 100 kg the number is drawn slightly smaller so it fits. This is supported but untested: it has only been tried on a 200 lb machine. If the remote cannot read the maximum, it stays at 200 lb.

Turning the dial only sets the weight. Nothing happens on the machine until you load. If the remote is not connected yet, the dial buzzes and does nothing.

You can also turn the dial while loaded:

120 lb in red with the rim lit — **Cable at rest:** the new weight applies straight away.

120 in outline while the rim stays red — **Mid-rep:** the number shows as an outline until the cable comes back to the bottom, then the new weight applies.

How quickly "quickly" is can be changed under Settings › Controls › Dial feel.

Load and release

With the cable retracted, tap the screen to load. Tap again to release. While loaded, a tap anywhere except on the two gauges releases.

50 in grey, the rim dim — **Tapped.** Grey while the machine confirms.

50 in red, the rim sweeping to red — **Loaded.** Red.

Important

The machine only releases when told to. If the remote loses Bluetooth, runs out of battery, or restarts while loaded, the machine stays loaded. Release it from the machine's own controls if you need to. The remote shows reconnecting and reconnects on its own.

During a set

The bottom of the screen counts your reps. When you stop for a few seconds, the set ends: the rep count and set count stay on screen and a rest timer starts. You can change the weight at any time.

120 lb loaded, gauges at 30% and +25%, 8 REPS at the bottom — **Mid-set.** Eight reps.

120 lb in white, 2 sets and 8 reps at the bottom with a 1:23 rest timer — **Between sets.** Two sets, last one eight reps, resting 1:23.

Auto load

Use auto load when you want to start with the handle already in your hands, such as a leg press. Instead of tapping, hold your finger on the screen for about a second and a half.

50 lb with PULL AND STABILIZE in white and gold ticks on the rim — **2. Let go.** Pull the cable and hold it steady.

A large 3 where the weight was — **3. The machine counts down** 3, 2, 1.

0 in red with the rim fully gold — **4. The weight ramps in.**

50 lb in red — **5. Loaded** where the cable is.

CHECK MACHINE, IT DID NOT ANSWER THE ARM — **If the machine does not respond** the screen says so.

To cancel while it is waiting for your pull, tap the screen.

Loading with the cable out

If you tap to load while the cable is already pulled out, the remote asks first.

50 lb, CABLE PULLED OUT, TAP TO LOAD, and a CANCEL button in gold — **Tap the screen** to load right where the cable is, immediately. **Tap CANCEL** to not.

Chains and eccentric

Hold a finger on a gauge and turn the dial to change it. While you hold it, the gauge shows the percentage and the pounds it works out to.

50 lb, CHAINS 0%, ECCENTRIC +25% — **Normal view.**

50 lb, CHAINS 30%, ECCENTRIC selected showing +25% and +13 LB — **Holding the eccentric gauge.** +25% of 50 lb is +13 lb.

Turn the chains gauge past zero the other way for INV CHAINS.

The machine tops out at 200 lb (or its overdrive maximum). If the weight plus chains and eccentric would go over that, the remote scales them down just enough to fit and shows the gauges in gold. Lower the weight and they go back to what you set.

185 lb with CHAINS 2% and ECCENTRIC +6% in gold — **Capped.** 30% chains and 25% eccentric set, but at 185 lb only 2% and 6% fit.

Both are percentages of the weight, so they change with it. To set them in fixed pounds instead, go to Settings › Gauges › Modifiers and choose WEIGHT. To label the chains gauge SHORTENED / LENGTHENED instead, change Settings › Gauges › Label.

50 lb, CHAINS 15 LB, ECCENTRIC +13 LB — **WEIGHT mode.** Fixed pounds that stay put when the weight changes.

5 lb, CHAINS 0 LB, ECCENTRIC +80 LB — **5 lb up, 85 lb down.**

Drop sets

A drop set lowers the weight partway through a set so you can keep going. The remote can do the drop for you. Open Settings › Drop set (swipe down from the top of the screen), or tap the drop set icon when one is already on.

There are two switches. AUTO DROP drops the weight on its own, by rep count or when you set the cable down. VOICE DROP drops the weight when you say "drop". You can use either or both.

Drops are a percentage of the current weight, so with two 20% drops, 100 lb goes to 80, then 64. The remote never drops below 5 lb, and drops only ever lower the weight.

Rep target

Turn on AUTO DROP and set TYPE to REP TARGET. Each DROP row is one drop: after this many reps, drop by this percent. Tap a row to edit it: turn the dial for the reps, tap, turn for the percent, tap. ADD ANOTHER adds a row, up to four. Set a row's reps to 0 to remove it.

DROP 1 8 REPS 20%, DROP 2 6 REPS 20%, ADD ANOTHER — **Two drops.** 8 reps, drop, 6 more reps, drop.

DROP 1 row being edited, the percent field lit — **Editing a row.**

Each row counts from the previous drop. With the two rows above, the weight drops after rep 8, then again after 6 more reps. The drop happens at the bottom of that rep, so the lighter weight is there for the next pull.

After the last drop, the drop set is finished for that set. The icon turns grey. To run it again, release the cable and load again.

Set down

Set TYPE to SET DOWN. Do your reps, set the cable down and hold it still for a moment, then pick it back up. The weight has dropped. No counting.

DROPS: how many times per set a set-down drops the weight (1 to 4). After that, setting the cable down does nothing, so you can finish your set and put it down without another drop.
DROP BY: the percentage to drop.
STILL FOR: how long the cable has to sit still before it counts as set down (0 to 2.5 seconds). The bottom of a normal rep is shorter than this, so reps do not trigger it. Set it to 0 and the drop is triggered the moment the cable is fully retracted at the machine. Use this when the bottom of a rep is not close to the machine.

The drop is applied when you pick the cable back up, not while it is sitting down. If you set the cable down and walk away, nothing changes.

Voice drop

Turn on VOICE DROP. Say "drop" and the weight drops by the DROP BY percentage under it. Say it as many times as you like. The microphone is only on while this switch is on, and nothing is recorded or sent anywhere.

DROP BY: the percentage for voice drops. Separate from auto drop's.
WHEN: ON RETURN waits until you reach the bottom of the rep you are on, then drops. RIGHT AWAY drops the instant you say it, wherever the cable is.
SENSITIVITY: LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH. Turn it up if it misses you in a loud room, down if it triggers when you did not say it.

Good to know

Release and load to start over. Rep target and set down count within one load of the cable. Releasing and loading again resets them. Pausing does not.
Turning the dial cancels a drop that has not happened yet. Drop set stays on.
Return means the bottom of the rep. Set down means the cable parked and still. Rep target and voice use the return. Set down uses the set-down.
Voice drops do not count toward the rep target rows.

The drop set icon

When any drop set is turned on, this icon appears to the right of the weight. If you see it, a drop set is on. If you do not, none is.

White: a drop set is on and ready. A drop is still to come.
Red: a drop is about to happen. It turns back to white the moment the weight changes.
Grey: the drops for this set are used up. Release the cable and load again to reset.

100 lb loaded with a white drop set icon on the right — **White.** Ready.

Tap the icon to open the drop set settings. This works while the cable is not loaded. While loaded, tapping it releases the cable like tapping anywhere else.

Settings

Swipe down from the top of the screen to open settings. Swipe up to close. Turn the dial to move between rows and tap to select. Switches flip with a tap. For a value, tap, turn the dial, tap again.

BRIGHTNESS row being edited with a track under the value — **Changing a value.**

Row	What it does
BLUETOOTH	Which machine you are connected to. Switch, disconnect, forget. See Bluetooth.
DROP SET	Auto drop and voice drop. See drop sets.
CONTROLS	DIAL FEEL (PRECISE, BALANCED, QUICK) and HAPTICS on or off.
GAUGES	MODIFIERS (PERCENT or WEIGHT) and LABEL (CHAINS / INV or SHORT / LENG).
BRIGHTNESS	10% to 100%.
ABOUT	The firmware version. Include it when you ask for help.

CONTROLS: DIAL FEEL BALANCED, HAPTICS on — **Controls.**

GAUGES: MODIFIERS PERCENT, LABEL CHAINS / INV, and the hint SCALES WITH WEIGHT — **Gauges.**

Bluetooth

BLUETOOTH: CONNECT, SEARCH, AUTO CONNECT ON, FORGET — **Disconnected.** Tap CONNECT to reconnect.

SEARCH looks for other machines. Tap a machine in the list to switch to it.
DISCONNECT turns the connection off until you tap CONNECT.
AUTO CONNECT reconnects to your machine automatically when it is in range.
FORGET forgets the remembered machine.

Battery

Charge the remote over its USB-C socket. The battery level is at the top of the settings screen. When it gets low, it also appears on the main screen.

100 lb in red with a red battery icon and 8% to its left — **10% or less:** red. About twenty minutes left. Finish the set and plug it in.

If the remote runs out mid-set, the machine stays loaded. Release it from the machine's own controls.

A black screen with the words starting and RESTARTED — **RESTARTED** on the start screen means the remote restarted itself rather than being switched on.

Cable length

To set the machine's cable length from the remote, tap the cable button at the bottom of the screen while connected and not loaded. Pull the cable out to the length you want and tap DONE.

If you tap it while loaded, the remote releases the cable first, then opens this screen.

If a load does not happen

The screen tells you why.

50 lb, SET TO WEIGHT MODE in gold, TAP AGAIN TO LOAD — **Set to weight mode.** The machine was in a different mode. The remote has switched it. Tap again.

50 lb, CHECK MACHINE in gold, IT DID NOT CONFIRM THE LOAD — **Check machine.** The machine did not respond. Check it is on and not in a fault, then tap again.

50 lb, CHECK MACHINE, IT DID NOT ANSWER THE ARM — **Check machine** after an auto load. Same thing: check the machine, then try again.

If it keeps happening, the install page can show the remote's log, and the about page says how to send it.