The predecessor of this switch was with me for several years in operation and worked quite well, but the programming was annoying and totally impractical. Therefore I bought this successor-timer in the hope that after years as something innovative is developed - unfortunately non-existent. Programming directly on the unit has well have become even worse than it already was with its predecessor. But I think ELV assumes that the infrared programmer to be At length, with the one can fix up multiple devices for his own purposes. So I also bought this programmer, but have been very disappointed. As the previous speaker mentioned earlier, the system does not work as described, you have the distance between transmitter and receiver diode definitely choose well below the specified 3 cm, otherwise nothing happens. In addition, the entire programming operation with the IR-programmer is also very cumbersome and time consuming, and you really have to work tremendously concentrated, otherwise easy to sneak a mistake. I needed several tries until I so had everything running as it should. The range is with me okay, but I use the repeater. Also I do not have the display lighting and especially I lack the ability to power through a power supply etc. to handle, then the backlight would certainly have been no problem. Unfortunately, this second generation of FS20 timer is not controlled by clock so that you have the correct time from time to time. All combined, I would say that ELV has also shown with this unit once again, that you may very well produce past the customer.